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  2. Japanese architecture - Wikipedia

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    Japanese architecture ... During the Meiji Restoration of 1869 the history of Japanese architecture ... Katayama was more influenced by the French Second Empire ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. History of Japan - Wikipedia

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    A major architectural ... Emperor Shōwa's sixty-three-year reign from 1926 to 1989 is the longest in recorded Japanese history. ... The Empire of Japan in 1937.

  5. Kyoto Imperial Palace - Wikipedia

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    It has been destroyed and rebuilt eight times, six of them during the 250-year-long peace of the Edo period. The version currently standing was completed in 1855, with an attempt at reproducing the Heian period architecture and style of the original dairi of the Heian Palace. The grounds include a number of buildings, along with the imperial ...

  6. Shimoda Kikutaro - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Asuka period - Wikipedia

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    The term "Asuka period" was first used to describe a period in the history of Japanese fine-arts and architecture. It was proposed by fine-arts scholars Sekino Tadasu (関野貞) and Okakura Kakuzō around 1900. Sekino dated the Asuka period as ending with the Taika Reform of 646.

  8. Empire of Japan - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. Category:Japanese architectural history - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Japanese architecture (4 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Japanese architectural history" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.