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Its features are an open structure with few walls that can be opened and closed with doors and shitomi and sudare, a structure in which shoes are taken off to enter the house on stilts, sitting or sleeping directly on tatami mats without using chairs and beds, a roof made of laminated hinoki (Japanese cypress) bark instead of ceramic tiles, and ...
Shoin (書院, drawing room or study) is a type of audience hall in Japanese architecture that was developed during the Muromachi period. [2] The term originally meant a study and a place for lectures on the sūtra within a temple, but later it came to mean just a drawing room or study. [3] From this room takes its name the shoin-zukuri style.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea took place between 1592 and 1598, at the same time as the high point in Azuchi–Momoyama style castle construction within Japan. Many Japanese castles (called Wajō 倭城 in Japanese and Waeseong in Korean) were built along the southern shores of Korea. All that remains of these castles today are the ...
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 ...
C. List of National Treasures of Japan (castles) Chiiori; Chinjusha; List of Cultural Properties of Japan – structures (Ehime) List of Cultural Properties of Japan – structures (Gunma)
After arriving in Japan the style started to evolve in response to local conditions and tastes. Among its innovations is the roof, covered in wood shingles rather than tiles, as in China. Also, Zen temple buildings have a so-called " hidden roof " structure, consisting in two roofs, the true one and a second underneath it.
Wooden buildings and structures in Japan (1 C, 10 P) World's fair architecture in Japan ...
The number of structures listed is more than 158, because in some cases groups of related structures are combined to form a single entry. The structures include main halls such as kon-dō, hon-dō, Butsuden; pagodas, gates, belfries (鐘楼,, shōrō), corridors, other halls and structures that are part of a Buddhist temple. [5]