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  2. Japanese architecture - Wikipedia

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    Japanese architecture ... Running contrary to modernism in Japan was the so-called Imperial Crown style (teikan yōshiki).

  3. Minka - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Shinto architecture - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. 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. Outside of the Japanese ...

  6. Japanese Buddhist architecture - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. Zenshūyō - Wikipedia

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    Zenshūyō (禅宗様, "Zen style") is a Japanese Buddhist architectural style derived from Chinese Song Dynasty architecture. Named after the Zen sect of Buddhism which brought it to Japan, it emerged in the late 12th or early 13th century.

  8. Category:Architecture in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Architecture in Japan" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  9. Tokyō (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    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]