The structure performance of traditional wooden houses in Kanazawa is clarified by investigating their structure details. There are four types of traditional wooden houses: urbane house (Machiya), merchant house (Shouka), farm house (Nouka) and old samurai residence (Bukeyashiki). In this study, three types of traditional wooden houses: urbane house, merchant house and farmhouse are dealt with. Static tests of mad-walls under lateral cyclic loads were carried out to examine the seismic

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... ce of mad-walls under the specification of Kanazawa. From experimental and investigation results, seismic performance of the traditional wooden houses are made clear.