What Is Japanese Architecture?: A Survey Of Traditional Japanese Architecture: A Survey of Traditional Japanese Architecture

by Kazuo Nishi and Kazuo Hozumi

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Traditional Japanese architecture-whether Buddhist temples or Shinto shrines, residences, castles, or teahouses-has become increasingly familiar around the world. Through the media of motion pictures, art books, T.V. documentaries and dramas such as Shogun, as well as through personal experience, more and more people have gained an acquaintance and appreciation of the architecture of premodern Japan. Some may even be able to name or recognize the oldest and the largest wooden structures in existence, which are to be found in Japan at Horyuji and Todaiji respectively. Yet often this
  • ISBN10 1568364121
  • ISBN13 9781568364124
  • Publish Date 1 May 2012 (first published 31 December 1995)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Kodansha America, Inc