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- Arts/ Architecture/ History/ Building Types/ Fortifications/ Castles/ Japan@ (9)
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- Architecture - Historical overview, from early shrines to modern trends.
www.jinjapan.org/today/culture/culture6.html#arc
- Chiiori Project - Preserving old thatched roof houses in rural Japan. For people concerned with saving and preserving the kayabuki houses that are being lost at an alarming rate.
www.chiiori.org
- Gassho-style Farmhouses - Fewer than 150 houses in this style remain. The ones discussed here have been recognized by both the national government and UNESCO as cultural treasures.
jin.jcic.or.jp/atlas/architecture/arc08.html
- Historic Architecture in Kyoto - Photographs, basic historical facts and visitor info on the notable historic buildings of Kyoto.
web.kyoto-inet.or.jp./org/orion/eng/hstj/histj.html
- Japanese Architecture - The tea room and the Sukiya style.
www.kippo.or.jp/culture/build/beauty/naka_e.htm
- Katsura Rikyu - The buildings and landscape design of a 17th century Imperial villa.
www.jgc.co.jp/waza/a3_katsura/rikyu02.htm
- Shoin Architecture - Illustrated discussion of the development of this Muromachi period style. Well organized.
www.columbia.edu/itc/ealac/V3613/shoin/mainpage.htm
- The Ancient Capital of Nara and the Old Temple Todaiji - Reconstruction efforts, centering around the early 18th century transportation and installation of two enormous beams.
www.jgc.co.jp/waza/a1_nara/todaij01.htm
- The Japanese House - Analysis of traditional Japanese domestic architecture as being based on long standing attitudes towards ideas of harmony. B&W illustrations on separate pages.
home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/410JapHouseTxE1.html
- The Traditional Japanese House - Architectural elements in terms of Japanese aesthetics and philosophy. Well illustrated.
www.swifty.com/apase/charlotte/@Ejh.html
- Tondabayashi "The Sugiyama Family's Old House" - Edo period home of a wealthy sake brewer.
www.kiis.or.jp/kansaida/tondabayashi/tondabayashi04-e.html
- Toshogu: a Seventeenth Century Monument - The construction of the Nikko Toshogu, mausoluem of the first Tokugawa shogun, Ieyasu, and the story of the project manager, Kohra Munehiro.
www.jgc.co.jp/waza/a2_nikko/toshog01.htm
- Visual Arts: Architecture - Article discussing the impact of traditional concepts on modern Japanese architects.
lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+jp0119)
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