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During the Meiji Restoration of 1869 the history of Japanese architecture was radically changed by two important events. The first was the Kami and Buddhas Separation Act of 1868, which formally separated Buddhism from Shinto and Buddhist temples from Shinto shrines , breaking an association between the two which had lasted well over a thousand ...
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 ...
Shimoda Kikutarō (Japanese: 下田 菊太郎, 2 May 1866 – 26 December 1931 [1]) was an architect who created the prototype of the Imperial Crown Style for the Japanese Empire. [2] He was a native of Akita, in northern Honshu, and moved to Tokyo in 1881, when he was fifteen. At Keio University, he enrolled in an architecture course under ...
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The Empire of Japan, [c] also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation-state [d] that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January 1868 until the Constitution of Japan took effect on 3 May 1947. [8] From 1910 to 1945, it included the Japanese archipelago, the Kurils, Karafuto, Korea, and Taiwan.
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)
This category collects all articles on Japanese history from the Meiji Restoration in 1868, through World War I and Japan in World War II, to the enactment of the 1947 constitution of modern Japan. The Meiji period (1868−1912), Taishō period (1912−1926), and first two decades of the Shōwa period (1926−1945) occurred during the empire's era.
This list is of Japanese structures dating from the Kamakura period (1185–1333) that have been designated Important Cultural Properties (including *National Treasures). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Structures