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
In shinden-zukuri architecture, the nurigome was used as a bedroom or storeroom.
The walls of a nurigome are thickly plastered and have almost no windows.
Standard kanji spelling for this architectural term.
Full okurigana spelling; less common but clearer for learners.
Variant with 篭 instead of 籠.
Mixed okurigana variant.
Variant with 篭 and partial okurigana.
Variant with 篭 instead of 籠.
From 塗り (nuri, 'plastering') + 籠め (kome, 'enclosing'), referring to the heavily plastered, enclosed nature of the room.