noun
plaster-walled interior room in Heian palace architecture
A small, windowless room with thick plaster walls, used in shinden-zukuri style residences for sleeping or storage. Historical term; encountered mainly in descriptions of Heian-period architecture.
See also: 寝殿造り
寝殿造りでは、塗籠は寝室や納戸として使われた。
In shinden-zukuri architecture, the nurigome was used as a bedroom or storeroom.
塗籠の壁は厚く塗り固められ、窓がほとんどない。
The walls of a nurigome are thickly plastered and have almost no windows.
Variant with 篭 instead of 籠.
Shinden-zukuri is the Heian-period aristocratic residential style in which 塗籠 appears as a characteristic room.
From 塗り (nuri, 'plastering') + 籠め (kome, 'enclosing'), referring to the heavily plastered, enclosed nature of the room.