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Japanese Architecture

The document summarizes key aspects of Japanese architecture through various historical periods. It describes traditional roofing styles like shikorok-buki and kiriizuma from early periods and notes architectural influences from Korea and China in the Kamakura period. It also outlines common temple and shrine structures like kondos and torii, as well as styles that emerged like shinden-zukuri and shoin-zukuri. The Azuchi-Momoyama period saw the rise of castles featuring defensive structures like ishitoshi and loopholes.

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Japanese Architecture

The document summarizes key aspects of Japanese architecture through various historical periods. It describes traditional roofing styles like shikorok-buki and kiriizuma from early periods and notes architectural influences from Korea and China in the Kamakura period. It also outlines common temple and shrine structures like kondos and torii, as well as styles that emerged like shinden-zukuri and shoin-zukuri. The Azuchi-Momoyama period saw the rise of castles featuring defensive structures like ishitoshi and loopholes.

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JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE CHOZUYA a small pavilion near the main

hall with water to cleanse ones hands and


Roofs mouth
SHIKOROK-BUKI (shikoroyane)
- a method of constructing a hip and gable KAMAKURA ARCHITECTURE Japan had
roof on separate planes developed and made technological advances
KIRIZUMA cut-out gable the oldest roof style mostly taken from Korea and China
made simply from two sides connected at the - time was Japanese political power was run by
ridge the Samuri mixture of turrets and shiden-
YOSEMUNE hipped roof that descends from zukuri style
the ridge DAIBUTSUYO (Great Buddha Style)
HOGYO (shaped like a pyramid) - a Japanese religious temple architectural
ROBAN (parallel epipedic object) style emerged in the late 12th or early 13th
TOKYO complex Bracket System century called TENJIKUYO (Indian Style)
KARAYO (Chinese Style) / ZENSHUYO (Zen
Interior Style) chinese forms featuring symmetry on
MAYA single room at the center a central axis
BUKE-ZUKURI houses built for military
Ornamentation families
KEN standard measurement of inter- CHASHITSU (tea houses)
columnation FUSUMA (inner partitions) SHOJI (outer
YARIGANNA used to split timber and partitions)
beatify it KARESANSUI (dry landscape garden) zen
garden
YAYOI PERIOD houses were built on stilts to SHIDEN-ZUKURI STYLE house that stood in
keep away pest, structure such as village the midst of large garden, members of the
fences and watch tower were applied aristocracy
- Roof is over a wattle screen wall surrounded SHOIN-ZUKURI STYLE Political power passed
by a damp-excluding ditch from the nobles to the samurai (warrior class)
- can be seen in the alcove ornament of the
KOFUN PERIOD many-chambered burial guest
mounds IKEBANA (flower arranging)
HANIWA (terracotta figures) BYOBO Japanese folding screens made from
several joined panels
ASUKA ARCHITECTURE History of Japanese TOKONOMA (toko) a built-in recessed space
fine-arts and architecture in a Japanese style reception room
KONDO (Golden hall) - is a 2-story building of
post and beam construction covered with a AZUCHI-MOMOYAMA PERIOD In response to a
hipped-gabbled roof made out of ceramic militaristic time, the castle, a defense
tiles. structure, was built to keep out intruders or
KAIRO center of an open area surrounded attackers Defense Features
by a roofed cloister - Elaborate mazes of halls, corridors and
tunnels
HEIAN ARCHITECTURE Japanese Buddhist JUGAN loopholes through which guns
architecture adopted a method of building (jugan) could be fired or arrows shot
temples and houses in the mountains (yamihazama)
Cedar (SUGI) prominent grain interior finish ISHITOSHI a special chamber built over the
Pine (MATSU) larch (AKA MATSU common for walls of the castles. Its floor could be opened
structural uses downwards to drop rocks onto the head of
HINOKI Brick roofing tiles attackers.
HIMEJI CASTLE (White Heron Castle) the
SHINTO SHRINES place of worship and best of Japan's castle built by Ikeda Terumasa
dwellings of the kami, shinto (Gods)
KOMAINU lion dogs guard the shrine EDO PERIOD brough back a lot of classic
TROII shinto gate Japanese Architecture
MINKA folk dwellings are vernacular houses
MACHIYA (townhouses) - Pit dwellings (jomon period houses)
NOKA (farm dwellings)

JOMON PERIOD shape like tent with small


ridge on top of roof for ventilation
- Roof is made of long grass or skins of wood

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