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2. Imperial Crown Style - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Japanese architecture - Wikipedia

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   The Japanese began to build raised-floor storehouses as granaries, which were constructed using metal tools like saws and chisels that began to appear at this time. A reconstruction in Toro, Shizuoka is a wooden box made of thick boards joined in the corners in a log cabin style and supported on eight pillars.

4. Mokoshi - Wikipedia

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   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 ]

5. List of partitions of traditional Japanese architecture

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   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]

6. Giyōfū architecture - Wikipedia

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   Former Kaichi school building (1876), an example of giyōfū architecture. Giyōfū architecture (擬洋風建築, Giyōfū-kenchiku, "pseudo-Western-style architecture") was a style of Japanese architecture which outwardly resembled Western-style construction but relied on traditional Japanese techniques.

7. Hisashi (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   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.

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9. Minka - Wikipedia

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   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.