PREPARED BY : SITI NADHIRAH & NUR FAZIRA

Japanese Architecture

Japanese Architecture

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BuddhismChina

Features of Japanese

Architecture

•Roof is made of heavy timbers.

•Made of wood

•Post-and-lintel structure

• Interior - multitude of

partially-screened, geometrically-

arranged rooms with sliding doors

•built with few nails or sometimes none

Features of Traditional Japanese

Home•made of wood

•has tatami mat floors

•sliding shoji doors

•coffered ceiling

•lath-and-plaster walls 

•tokonoma (display alcoves)

•Genkan(entrance)

THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY

Architecture in Japan

Prehistoric Period

•small buildings

•thatched roofs

•dirt floors(made of wood if the area is humid)

Reconstructed storehouse

“ASUKA PERIOD” • the term was fi rst used to descr ibe a period in the history of Japanese fi ne-

arts and architecture

• was infl uenced by the introduct ion of Buddhism from China v ia Korean

Peninsula

Asuka Period

Asuka Period

Click icon to add pictureThe Main

Worship Hall

-usually found at the center of the temple grounds

- Inside are images of the Buddha, other Buddhist images, an altar or altars with various objects and space for monks and worshipers.

Main Worship Hall(Kondo)

Asuka Period

Five Story Pagoda

•have five stories represent the five elements :

•Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, Sky

 

The Five Story Pagoda

Asuka Period

Shinto Shrines

-places of worship and the dwellings of the kami, the Shinto "gods“

Main Features:

•Komainu

•Torii

•Chozuya

•Main sanctuary

Shinto Shrine

Heian Period

 shinden-zukuri

- the style was characterised by symmetrical buildings placed as arms that defined an inner garden

The Phoenix HallShinden-Zukuri

•The Japanese Pol i t ica l power was run by Samuri .

•Many houses were just p la in , symmetr ical , and contained trenches

but they were s imple and sturdy.

Kamakura Period

Kamakura Period

Sanju-Sangen-Do

-Hall with thirty three spaces

between columns

- contains 1,000 life-size statues of

the Thousand Armed Kannon

The Sanju-Sangen-Do

The Thousand Armed Kannon

Kamakura Period

Tea House

•For tea cermonies

•Must have an atmosphere of

calm and meditation

•The only adornment was a

hanging scroll with calligraphy or a

flower arrangement

Tea House

In response to a mi l i tar ist ic t ime, the cast le , a defensive structure, was bui l t to keep out intruders or attackers .

Azuchi-Momoyama Period

Defense features:

•elaborate mazes of halls, corridors and tunnels

•Defensive walls with triangular and circular holes for firing arrows and guns, for pouring boiling oil and rocks

Azuchi-Momoyama Period

Himeji Castle

•the best of Japan's castles

•one of the few with some its

original interior and exterior intact.

•was built by Ikeda Terumasa.

•It has managed to avoid being

destroyed by a fire or natural disaster

and was never attacked.

Himeji Castle aka White Heron Castle

Edo Period

This period brought back a lot of classic Japanese architecture.

The city of Edo was struck by fires repeatedly so architecture was simplified to allow for easy rebuilding.

Enhanced Architecture:

•Machiya (townhouses)

Katsura-Detached Palace

Typical Machiya

Meiji Period

•Emperor Meiji took charge, new and different forms of culture moved into Japan.

•European influences slowly managed to work their way to architecture.

Nara National Museum

Modern Architecture

•Change in technology greatly affected the architecture.

•After World War II a lot of Japan had to be rebuilt, but the new Japan looked much different than old Japan.

•The styles went from big, rectangular prisms to long and tall skyscrapers.

 

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