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Azekura-zukuri (校倉造) or azekura is a Japanese architectural style of simple wooden construction, used for storehouses , granaries, and other utilitarian structures. [2] This style probably dates to the early centuries of the Common Era, [2] such as during the Yayoi or Kofun periods. It is characterized by joined-log structures of ...
Unlike other forms of Japanese architecture (such as those of the sukiya (数寄屋) style), it is the structure rather than the plan that is of primary importance to the minka. [3] Minka are divided up with primary posts that form the basic framework and bear the structural load of the building; secondary posts are arranged to suit the ...
Shoin-zukuri (Japanese: 書院造, 'study room architecture') is a style of Japanese architecture developed in the Muromachi, Azuchi–Momoyama and Edo periods that forms the basis of today's traditional-style Japanese houses.
In contrast to Waters's neoclassical style building, Japanese carpenters developed a pseudo-Japanese style known as giyōfū [44] chiefly using wood. A good example of which is Kaichi Primary School in Nagano Prefecture built in 1876. The master carpenter Tateishi Kiyoshige travelled to Tōkyō to see which Western building styles were popular ...
Giyōfū style buildings often contained Dutch, British, French, and/or Italian architectural elements, combined with a Japanese-style roof. The Japanese roofs on Western-faced Japanese timber frames became signifiers of giyōfū architecture. The clearest evidence for this is in the karahafu and mukuri roofs, as well as common use of shoji ...
There are no remaining original examples of Shinden-zukuri style buildings. It is often said that Byōdō-in temple is the existing shinden-zukuri, but according to Byōdō-in, Byodoin is not a shinden-zukuri style. [8] some current structures follow the similar styles and designs: Heian Palace; Byōdō-in's Phoenix Hall; Hōjō-ji
This list is of Japanese structures dating from the Taishō period (1912–1926) that have been designated Important Cultural Properties. [1] As of October 2016, ninety-six properties with two hundred and twenty-seven component structures have been so designated .
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. Outside of the Japanese ...