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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)
Prehistoric Period
•small buildings
•thatched roofs
•dirt floors(made of wood if the area is humid)
Reconstructed storehouse
“ A S U K A P E R I O D ”
• t h e t e r m w a s f i r s t u s e d t o d e s c r i b e a p e r i o d i n t h e h i s t o r y o f J a p a n e se f i n e - a rt s
a n d a r c h i t e c t u r e
• w a s i n f l u e n c e d b y t h e i n t r o d u c t i on o f B u d d h i s m f r o m C h i n a v i a K o r e a n P e n i n s u l a
Asuka Period
Asuka Period
The Main
Worship Hall
-usually found at thecenter of the templegrounds
- Inside are images ofthe Buddha, otherBuddhist images, analtar or altars withvarious objects andspace for monks andworshipers.
Main Worship Hall(Kondo)
Asuka Period
Five Story Pagoda
•have five storiesrepresent the fiveelements :
•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
•T h e J a p a n e s e P o l i t i c a l p o w e r w a s r u n b y S a m u r i .
•M a n y h o u s e s w e r e j u s t p l a i n , s y m m e t r i c a l , a n d c o n t a i n e d t r e n c h e s b u t t h e y w e r e
s i m p l e a n d s t u r d y .
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
I n r e sp on s e t o a m i l i t a r i s t i c t i me ,t he c a st le , a d e fe n s ive s t r u ct ur e , w a s b ui l tt o k e e p o u t i n t r u d e r s o r a t t a c k e r s .
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 periodbrought back a lot ofclassic Japanesearchitecture.
The city of Edowas struck by firesrepeatedly soarchitecture wassimplified to allow foreasy rebuilding.
Enhanced Architecture:
•Machiya(townhouses)
Katsura-Detached Palace
Typical Machiya
Meiji Period
•Emperor Meiji tookcharge, new anddifferent forms ofculture moved intoJapan.
•European influencesslowly managed towork their way toarchitecture.
Nara National Museum