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In traditional Japanese architecture, there are various styles, features and techniques unique to Japan in each period and use, such as residence, castle, Buddhist temple and Shinto shrine. On the other hand, especially in ancient times, it was strongly influenced by Chinese culture like other Asian countries, so it has characteristics common ...
Sukiya-zukuri (数寄屋造り) is one type of Japanese residential architectural style. Suki (Ateji: 数寄 or 数奇) means refined, well cultivated taste and delight in elegant pursuits, [1] and refers to enjoyment of the exquisitely performed tea ceremony.
Shoin-zukuri (Japanese: 書院造, 'study room architecture') is a style of Japanese architecture developed in the Muromachi, Azuchi–Momoyama and Edo periods that forms the basis of today's traditional-style Japanese houses.
Housing in Japan includes modern and traditional styles. Two patterns of residences are predominant in contemporary Japan : the single-family detached house and the multiple-unit building , either owned by an individual or corporation and rented as apartments to tenants, or owned by occupants.
[5] [7] The entrance hall (genkan) emerged as an element of residential architecture during the Momoyama period. [7] The oldest extant shoin style building is the Tōgu-dō at Ginkaku-ji from 1485. Other representative examples of early shoin style, also called shuden , include two guest halls at Mii-dera . [ 10 ]
Machiya (町屋/町家) are traditional wooden townhouses found throughout Japan and typified in the historical capital of Kyoto. Machiya ('townhouses') and nōka ('farm dwellings') constitute the two categories of Japanese vernacular architecture known as minka ('folk dwellings').
Hirairi or hirairi-zukuri (平入・平入造) is a Japanese traditional architectural structure, where the building has its main entrance on the side which runs parallel to the roof's ridge (non gabled-side). The shinmei-zukuri, nagare-zukuri, hachiman-zukuri, and hie-zukuri Shinto architectural styles belong to this type. [1]
Minka (Japanese: 民家, lit. "folk houses") are vernacular houses constructed in any one of several traditional Japanese building styles. In the context of the four divisions of society , Minka were the dwellings of farmers, artisans, and merchants (i.e., the three non- samurai castes ). [ 1 ]