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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.
The Japanese began to build raised-floor storehouses as granaries, which were constructed using metal tools like saws and chisels that began to appear at this time. A reconstruction in Toro, Shizuoka is a wooden box made of thick boards joined in the corners in a log cabin style and supported on eight pillars.
Battened clapboard wall [1] [28] Clapboarding with notched vertical battens over the boards. Bark-and-batten wall (Japanese term?) more images: Bark-and-batten wall Vertical sheets of bark, held down with horizontal battens; used as a stand-alone wall or as a decorative facing. [1] Used on poorer houses in the south of Japan in the 1880s. [1]
In Japanese architecture mokoshi (裳階・裳層, also pronounced shōkai), literally "skirt storey" or "cuff storey", is a decorative pent roof surrounding a building below the true roof. [1] Since it does not correspond to any internal division, the mokoshi gives the impression of there being more floors than there really are. [ 1 ]
Tokonoma with scroll, and tsuke-shoin, a writing desk with a view, which gave this style its name; [3] this later became purely decorative, being used to display impressive writing utensils The foundations for the design of today's traditional Japanese residential houses with tatami floors were established in the late Muromachi period ...
Decorative roof projections on the ridge of a thatched roof. There were two main methods for setting out the floor plan of the minka.The kyoma (京間) method uses a standard size of tatami (畳) mat, whereas the inakama (田舎間) method is based upon column spacing.
Former Kaichi school building (1876), an example of giyōfū architecture. Giyōfū architecture (擬洋風建築, Giyōfū-kenchiku, "pseudo-Western-style architecture") was a style of Japanese architecture which outwardly resembled Western-style construction but relied on traditional Japanese techniques.
A woodblock print by Yōshū Chikanobu showing Japanese women in Western-style clothes, hats, and shoes (yōfuku)Japanese clothing during the Meiji period (1867–1912) saw a marked change from the preceding Edo period (1603–1867), following the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate between 1853 and 1867, the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854 – which, led by Matthew C. Perry, forcibly opened ...