Grass huts of the rich and famous In that pioneering era, thatch and coarse grasses were not just something found growing wild in a field somewhere, and thatched cottages were not mere worksheds. From a small number of pictures from the Japanese occupation era, one can in fact see some quite splendid thatched homes.
霧峰林家的草厝在那個「草創」的開拓時期，茅草、菅草不是野草；而草屋也不是工寮，事實上，從日據時代少數的照片中，還可以發掘許多設計精美的草屋。