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Japanese Buddhist architecture is the architecture of Buddhist temples in Japan, consisting of locally developed variants of architectural styles born in China. [1] After Buddhism arrived from the continent via the Three Kingdoms of Korea in the 6th century, an effort was initially made to reproduce the original buildings as faithfully as possible, but gradually local versions of continental ...
Shinto architecture is the architecture of Japanese Shinto shrines.. With a few exceptions like Ise Grand Shrine and Izumo Taisha Shinto shrines before Buddhism were mostly temporary structures erected to a particular purpose.
Japanese architecture (日本建築, Nihon kenchiku) has been typified by wooden structures, elevated slightly off the ground, with tiled or thatched roofs. Sliding doors and other traditional partitions were used in place of walls, allowing the internal configuration of a space to be customized for different occasions. People usually sat on ...
Throne on display in the Kyoto Imperial Palace; from outside inwards, blue-bound misu blinds, pillar slots for shitomi shutters (currently removed), white kabeshiro (wall-curtains) caught up with red-and-black nosuji (野筋) ties, and chōdai (canopy and dais, in red and purple). Older styles often persist in rare ceremonial use.
Main hall or Main Temple is the building within a Japanese Buddhist monastery compound which enshrines the main object of veneration. [1] Because the various denominations deliberately use different terms, this single English term translates several Japanese words, among them butsuden , butsu-dō , kondō , konpon-chūdō , and hondō .
An example of mutesaki tokyō using six brackets. Tokyō (斗栱・斗拱, more often 斗きょう) [note 1] (also called kumimono (組物) or masugumi (斗組)) is a system of supporting blocks (斗 or 大斗, masu or daito, lit. block or big block) and brackets (肘木, hijiki, lit. elbow wood) supporting the eaves of a Japanese building, usually part of a Buddhist temple or Shinto shrine. [1]
The shōrō, shurō (鐘楼, lit. bell building) or kanetsuki-dō (鐘突堂, lit. bell-striking hall) is the bell tower of a Buddhist temple in Japan, housing the temple's bonshō (梵鐘). It can also be found at some Shinto shrines which used to function as temples (see article Shinbutsu shūgō), as for example Nikkō Tōshō-gū.
Reconstruction of the interior furnishings of the same building. The Saiō sits on a dais, with a byōbu behind her, a kichō to her left, and a boxlike chōdai (帳台, baldachin ) to her right. Above and before her, a kabeshiro (壁代, wall-curtain) is rolled and tied up.