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The Imperial Crown Style (帝冠様式, teikan yōshiki) of Japanese architecture developed during the Japanese Empire in the early twentieth century. The style is identified by Japanese-style roofing on top of Neoclassical styled buildings; [1] and can have a centrally elevated structure with a pyramidal hip roof.
Decorative roof projections on the ridge of a thatched roof. There were two main methods for setting out the floor plan of the minka.The kyoma (京間) method uses a standard size of tatami (畳) mat, whereas the inakama (田舎間) method is based upon column spacing.
The shape of the hanten bears a resemblance to a noragi, a traditional patchwork jacket, and the haori, and is worn by both men and women. The facing and lining are padded with thick layers of wadded cotton for warmth. The collar is usually made of black sateen. Hanten often display a family crest or other designs.
In Japanese architecture mokoshi (裳階・裳層, also pronounced shōkai), literally "skirt storey" or "cuff storey", is a decorative pent roof surrounding a building below the true roof. [1] Since it does not correspond to any internal division, the mokoshi gives the impression of there being more floors than there really are. [ 1 ]
Battened clapboard wall [1] [28] Clapboarding with notched vertical battens over the boards. Bark-and-batten wall (Japanese term?) more images: Bark-and-batten wall Vertical sheets of bark, held down with horizontal battens; used as a stand-alone wall or as a decorative facing. [1] Used on poorer houses in the south of Japan in the 1880s. [1]
It was sometime during this period that the hidden roof, a uniquely Japanese solution to roof drainage problems, was adopted. [21] The increasing size of buildings in the capital led to an architecture reliant on columns regularly spaced in accordance with the ken, a traditional measure of both size and proportion.
In Japanese architecture the term hisashi (廂・庇) has two meanings: As more commonly used, the term indicates the eaves of a roof, [ 1 ] that is, the part along the edge of a roof projecting beyond the side of the building to provide protection against the weather.
The main building, the shinden (寝殿, sleeping place), is on the central north–south axis and faces south on an open courtyard. Two subsidiary buildings, the tai-no-ya ( 對屋・対屋 , lit. opposing rooms ) , are built to the right and left of the shinden , both running east–west.