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	Japanese architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The best-known Japanese architect is Kenzo Tange, whose National Gymnasiums (1964) for the Tokyo Olympics emphasizing the contrast and blending of pillars and walls, and with sweeping roofs reminiscent of the tomo-e (an ancient whorl-shaped heraldic symbol) are dramatic statements of form and movement.
		Both were notable for infusing Japanese aesthetic ideas into starkly contemporary buildings, returning to the spatial concepts and modular proportions of tatami (sleeping mats), using textures to enliven the ubiquitous ferroconcrete and steel, and integrating gardens and sculpture into their designs.
		Japanese architects were not only skilled practitioners in the modern idiom but also enriched postmodern designs worldwide with innovative spatial perceptions, subtle surface texturing, unusual use of industrial materials, and a developed awareness of ecological and topographical problems.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_architecture (1988 words)

	Culture of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Japanese is known to be related to the nearby Ryukyuan languages, forming the Japonic language family.
		The Japanese writing system is actually four writing systems used in tandem: kanji, which are logograms adopted from Chinese writing; the two kana syllabaries, hiragana and katakana, which developed from kanji; and the Latin alphabet, called romaji when used to write Japanese, is also common.
		It is common to see Japanese commuters riding the train to work, enjoying their favorite manga or listening through earphones to the latest in popular music on portable music players.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Culture_of_Japan (1419 words)

	Japanese architecture. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Evidence of prehistoric architecture in Japan has survived in the form of models of terra-cotta houses buried in tombs and by remains of pit houses of the Jomon, the neolithic people of Japan.
		These buildings illustrate the first epoch of Japanese architecture (6th–8th cent.), which was characterized by gravity, frankness of construction, and simple, vital compositions, sparsely ornamented.
		The principal style of Japanese dwelling of the upper class is unexcelled for its refinement and simplicity.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ja/Japan-arc.html (1008 words)

	Archpedia - Japanese Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Historically, architecture in Japan was influenced by Chinese architecture, although the differences between the two are many.
		Also, Chinese architecture was based on a lifestyle that included the use of chairs, while in Japan people customarily sat on the floor (a custom that began to change in the Meiji period [1868-1912]).
		Modern architectural techniques were introduced into Japan with the launch of the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
	www.archpedia.com /Styles-Japanese-1.html (702 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Japanese Architecture
		Japanese architecture's aesthetic of simplicity and restraint, says Erlandson, "allows Tadashi's eclectic collection of art and furniture to be the focus." The architect and his team knew their job was to make the rooms as...
		This exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Architecture 19851996 is jointly presented by the University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, the Consulate-General of Japan and the Japan Foundation; and co-presented by The Japan Society of Hong Kong and...
		Crafted in precision rectilinearity, it typifies Japanese architecture and, ironically, it's glazed in the swooning shimmer of celestial yingqing -- an iron-based reduction pale blue beloved for centuries in Japan.
	news.surfwax.com /architecture/files/Japanese_Architecture.html (1167 words)

	Archpedia - Japanese Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A redirecting of architectural priorities away from unmitigated commercialization was led by Arata Isozaki, who as a young man had worked under Tange.
		Many Japanese architects, however, are still highly ranked in Japan and elsewhere, and a large number of foreign architects find business markets in Japan, a trend that has spread even to local areas.
		Japanese architecture created from the last quarter of the 19th century is remarkable in its rapid assimilation of Western architectural forms and the structural technology necessary to achieve results quite foreign to traditional Japanese sensibilities.
	www.archpedia.com /Styles-Japanese-2.html (693 words)

	Japanese Architecture (Buddhist architecture, Shinto architecture, design concept, modern architecture)
		One variation with Japanese architecture typically placed people on the floor to sit, whereas that of China had them sitting in chairs.
		Now Japan is blending traditional Japanese architecture with modern technology and new materials in the construction of new buildings.
		Architecture in Japan with Buddhist influences came from Korea and China in the 6th century.
	www.asianinfo.org /asianinfo/japan/architecture.htm (1479 words)

	Japanese Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Conder's writings on Japanese architecture and its allied arts had a tremendous influence abroad, appearing at a time when informed first-hand accounts of Japanese buildings and their environments by Westerners were still quite rare.
		His study of Japanese painting and flower arrangement led to the publication of the classic The Flowers of Japan and the Art of Floral Arrangement, the 100-year-old Ikebana classic first published in 1891.
		A selection of important Japanese prints and textiles that Wright collected are shown together with rare architectural drawings by Wright that exhibit graphic compositional design motifs derived from his study of Japanese art.
	www.sirreadalot.org /arts/japanesearchitectureR.htm (1818 words)

	MSN Encarta - Japanese Art and Architecture
		Japanese ceramics are among the finest in the world and include the earliest known artifacts of their culture (see Pottery).
		Another instance is provided by two 17th-century structures that are poles apart: Katsura Detached Palace is an exercise in simplicity, with an emphasis on natural materials, rough and untrimmed, and an affinity for beauty achieved by accident; Tōshōgu Mausoleum is a rigidly symmetrical structure replete with brightly colored relief carvings covering every visible surface.
		The third stage in Japanese prehistory, the Kofun, or Tumulus, period (ad 300?-552), represents a modification of Yayoi culture, attributable either to internal development or external force.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577854/Japanese_Art_and_Architecture.html (1090 words)

	Japanese Art - Buddhist Architecture
		Generally speaking, the Chinese and Korean style of Buddhist architecture was eagerly copied in the early Buddhist ages, that is, about three centuries from the 7th to the 9th century.
		In this hall is fully expressed, not only the creative genius of Japanese architects, but also the faith in the Buddha Amida which was very popular among the nobles of the Fujiwara families.
		On the whole Japanese Buddhist architecture is different according to different sects of Buddhism in its decoration and the arrangement of buildings.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles15/japanese-art-10.shtml (509 words)

	Japanese architecture in Czech Republic
		After the 1945 Japanese architecture is going to be one of the most vital and inspirative contribution to the urban environmental studies and is nowadays highly valued for it’s purity, esthetic and spatial qualities, high technology standard and sensitivity to the nature.
		Conder, Tokyo Technical Institute and his students (Tatsuno), Meiji architecture, Japanese wood-block print and the European painting, Wright and Japan, influence of the Japanese architecture in the Modern Style Movement, the “Imperial” architect Katayama, Czech architects in Japan (Letzel, Raymond, Feuerstein), Japanese International style architects (Yamada, Yoshida, Yamaguchi, Watanabe, Sakakura), Japanese “national” style.
		Osamu Okamura, graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University (ČVUT) in Prague and of the Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture of Prof.
	web.quick.cz /japan/english.htm (934 words)

	Explore Japanese Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		From architecture to the presentation of food, the japanese approach to design has historically been linear and asymmetrical, with texture and elements deeply emphasized creating a visual display of depth and variety.
		Japanese rooms are a composition of line, texture and the play of light.
		Japanese dishes are chosen to highlight, enhance and harmonize the presentation of food.
	www.explorejapan.com /jtextures.htm (201 words)

	Summary of Japanese Architecture
		Architecture during the Nara period (710-794) was influenced by the Tang style which was characterized by stable and balanced proportions and by an emphasis on structure over ornamentation.
		Domestic architecture during the Muromachi period (1333-1573) witnessed the perfection of the shoin-zukuri style, which is the precursor of the style of the present-day Japanese house with tatami mats covering floors.
		Western styles of architecture have spread rapidly since the Meiji period and today, Japanese cities are dominated by forests of modern skyscrapers, some of them employing traditional Japanese design here and there.
	www.asianinfo.org /asianinfo/japan/pro-architecture.htm (812 words)

	Japanese architecture -> Religious Architecture on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		These buildings illustrate the first epoch of Japanese architecture (6th-8th cent.), which was characterized by gravity, frankness of construction, and simple, vital compositions, sparsely ornamented.
		A distinctly Japanese style of architecture was developed in the late Heian period (898-1185).
		Japanese lantern: A luminous skincare store and spa on Madison Avenue evokes the Japanese provenance of its products and is a lantern on the busy street.(Architecture Research Office designs the Qiora Store and Spa...
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/Japan-arc_ReligiousArchitecture.asp (859 words)

	Hein, Japanese Architecture and Planning (2000)
		The course is aimed at a better understanding of Japanese cities and should point towards lessons in urban organization that recent movements such as the "New Urbanism" might learn.
		Apart from giving an introduction to Japanese architecture and planning, the course is also designed to help students develop their analytical skills, their ability to read and write.
		Architectural and Artistic Representations of the Identity of
	www.brynmawr.edu /cities/Syllabi/City270Syll.htm (1040 words)

	Japanese Architecture (printer friendly version \| National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Japan Access touches on the architecture of the various historic periods, the design concept of Japanese architecture and the influences of Shinto and Buddhism as well as trends in modern architecture.
		Chichibu is a small Japanese city near Tokyo and Kid's Life in Chichibu attempts to help visitors "understand the 'real' Japan and Japanese people" through pictures and short descriptions.
		Japanese Gardens is a multi-part feature on Japanese landscape gardening with articles titled: Restraint and Refinement - Beauty in the Japanese Garden, Creating Gardens, Small Oases in Big City.
	www.indiana.edu /~japan/iguides/architecture-pfv.htm (573 words)

	Japanese Architecture
		These articles are specific to the history of architecture in Japan as well as specific building styles and architectural practices found there.
		The Japanese house is widely acclaimed for its delicate proportions, use of natural materials, lack of ostentation, and skillful integration of interior and exterior space.
		HISTORY OF JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE From primitive structures, to the classic Sukiya style, to today's urban dwellings, Japanese architecture has a rich history that is still evolving.
	www.rothteien.com /archives/architecture/jarchitecture.htm (238 words)

	Japanese Arts - Architecture (English)
		An open air museum of modern Japanese architecture from the Meiji period (1868-1912).
		An introduction to the Ise Shrine and the basis of it's architecture.
		This is in take-no-prisoners Japanese - so be prepared.
	www.nihongo.org /english/arts/architecture (137 words)

	... About Japan: Architecture
		Major examples of Buddhist temple architecture at Horyuji (the oldest wooden building in the world), Todaiji (the largest wooden building in Japan) and Toji (which houses Japan's tallest pagoda) are also described.
		architectural types with diagrams, photographs and drawings in thumbnail view which can then be enlarged to show useful details.
		Likewise the Kansai Digital Archives houses a database preserving pictorial examples of historical architecture found in some eighteen different towns and cities in the Kansai plains area of south-central Honshu.
	www.csuohio.edu /history/japan/japan16.html (468 words)

	THE JAPANESE GARDEN, SHINTO and TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Japanese garden is very important both to traditional Japanese architecture and as a reflection of Japanese religious values.
		Traditional Japanese architecture, for instance, is very "open" and very much a part of the outside world (hence closely tied to the garden).
		Moreover the Japanese garden is usually placed so as to be seen from the most important part of the house (or from where one would place a tea ceremony room).
	www.csuohio.edu /history/shiga96/pages/ryu.html (254 words)

	Japanese Architecture: Ryoanji temple, Kyoto
		Probably all that can be safely said is that the garden is highly influenced by the ideals of the tea ceremony, in which honesty, rusticity, and understatement are held in esteem.
		In the Muromachi era (1338-1573), architecture and the tea culture mutually influenced each other as patrons erected rustic tea houses.
		The strikingly horizontal composition is optimized for views from the verandah, from which Zen monks meditated by staring into the blankness of the garden.
	www.orientalarchitecture.com /kyoto/RYOANJI.htm (649 words)

	Global Architecture Encyclopedia - Glass Steel and Stone
		Officially known as 30 St. Mary Axe, this building has been lovingly described as a lighthouse of 21st century architecture, and mocked as the "gherkin." When the Swiss Re insurance company commissioned the building, it intended it to be a landmark.
		The pinnacle of gothic religious architecture in France isn't in Pairs; it's in the town of Amiens.
		It is a collection of architecture that while thoroughly modern, is still able to impart the importance and statur...
	www.glasssteelandstone.com (379 words)

	Best Place for Tea! What is Japanese Architecture?
		Architectural elements in terms of Japanese aesthetics and philosophy.
		Open air museum for preserving and exhibiting Japanese architecture of the Meiji period, 1868-1912.
		Analysis of traditional Japanese domestic architecture as being based on long standing attitudes towards ideas of harmony.
	bestplace.4t.com /japan.htm (280 words)

	Archizine: The Internet Edition of the Architecture Show Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Architecture criticism, whether written for the profession or the general public, has one primary purpose: to parse the good from the bad.
		A thing that struck me about architecture recently, despite the old saw about it being the second oldest profession, is that no one actually needs architecture.
		Architecture Channel is an innovative new free service providing AEC (architecture / engineering / construction) and design practices worldwide with an international forum to showcase their work to the media, students, partners, and potential customers.
	www.archizine.com (1013 words)

	Japanese Architecture
		Japanese houses have thin walls because of the mild climate and overlapping, slanted, and slightly curved roofs because of the fact that there is plenty of rain especially during early summer.
		When Japan opened herself to the rest of the world around the year 1868, Western architecture began to displace traditional Japanese architecture.
		An Overview of Japanese Ritural Architecture from the Kofun to Momoyama Periods.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2111.html (172 words)

	Japanese Architecture: Horyuji temple, Kyoto
		Buddhism was a young religion that had recently been imported from Baekje, a Korean kingdom with close cultural and economic ties to the Yamato (Japanese) court.
		It is an awesome thought that when standing in the inner precinct, one is completely enveloped by artifacts of the 7th century.
		One also marvels that although Horyuji is from the very beginnings of written Japanese history, the buildings already show a highly refined level of style.
	www.orientalarchitecture.com /nara/HORYUJI.htm (580 words)

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