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Japanese architecture ... The use of paper, or washi, in Japanese buildings is a main component in the beauty and atmosphere of the Japanese interior, ...
The rest of the structure is non-load-bearing. [1] [2] While fixed walls are used, a variety of movable partitions are also used to fill the spaces between the pillars. They may be free-standing, hung from lintels, [3] or, especially in later buildings, sliding panels [a] which can readily be removed from their grooves. [5]
Buildings and structures in Japan by prefecture (61 C) Buildings and structures in Japan by type (24 C) * ... Japanese building and structure stubs (8 C, 396 P)
Buildings and structures by Japanese architects (13 C, 1 P) Buildings and structures in Japan (17 C) C. Chashitsu (11 P) F. Japanese architectural features (2 C, 49 P)
This is a list of buildings that once held the title of tallest building in Japan. From its completion in 1958 and until the opening of the Tokyo Skytree in 2011, Tokyo Tower retained the title of tallest structure in Japan, aside from various guyed masts that were built in the 1960s and 1970s, later dismantled in the 1990s.
Buraku-ji in Kōchi Prefecture, Shikoku, and Fuki-ji in Ōita Prefecture, Kyushu, contain the earliest wooden structures outside Honshu. The honden of Ujigami Jinja is the earliest wooden Shinto shrine building, while two stone examples from the city of Yamagata are the earliest torii.
Though fairly basic in construction and appearance, these wooden and earthwork structures were designed to impress just as much as to function effectively against attack. Chinese and Korean architecture influenced the design of Japanese buildings, including fortifications, in this period.
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]