JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE
hall with water to cleanse ones hands and
Roofs
SHIKOROK-BUKI (shikoroyane)
- a method of constructing a hip and gable
roof on separate planes
KIRIZUMA cut-out gable the oldest roof style
made simply from two sides connected at the
ridge
YOSEMUNE hipped roof that descends from
the ridge
HOGYO (shaped like a pyramid)
ROBAN (parallel epipedic object)
TOKYO complex Bracket System
Interior
MAYA single room at the center
Ornamentation
KEN standard measurement of inter-
columnation
YARIGANNA used to split timber and
beatify it
YAYOI PERIOD houses were built on stilts to
keep away pest, structure such as village
fences and watch tower were applied
- Roof is over a wattle screen wall surrounded
by a damp-excluding ditch
KOFUN PERIOD many-chambered burial
mounds
HANIWA (terracotta figures)
ASUKA ARCHITECTURE History of Japanese
fine-arts and architecture
KONDO (Golden hall) - is a 2-story building of
post and beam construction covered with a
hipped-gabbled roof made out of ceramic
tiles.
KAIRO center of an open area surrounded
by a roofed cloister
HEIAN ARCHITECTURE Japanese Buddhist
architecture adopted a method of building
temples and houses in the mountains
Cedar (SUGI) prominent grain interior finish
Pine (MATSU) larch (AKA MATSU common for
structural uses
HINOKI Brick roofing tiles
SHINTO SHRINES place of worship and
dwellings of the kami, shinto (Gods)
KOMAINU lion dogs guard the shrine
TROII shinto gate
CHOZUYA a small pavilion near the main
mouth
KAMAKURA ARCHITECTURE Japan had
developed and made technological advances
mostly taken from Korea and China
- time was Japanese political power was run by
the Samuri mixture of turrets and shiden-
zukuri style
DAIBUTSUYO (Great Buddha Style)
- a Japanese religious temple architectural
style emerged in the late 12th or early 13th
century called TENJIKUYO (Indian Style)
KARAYO (Chinese Style) / ZENSHUYO (Zen
Style) chinese forms featuring symmetry on
a central axis
BUKE-ZUKURI houses built for military
families
CHASHITSU (tea houses)
FUSUMA (inner partitions) SHOJI (outer
partitions)
KARESANSUI (dry landscape garden) zen
garden
SHIDEN-ZUKURI STYLE house that stood in
the midst of large garden, members of the
aristocracy
SHOIN-ZUKURI STYLE Political power passed
from the nobles to the samurai (warrior class)
- can be seen in the alcove ornament of the
guest
IKEBANA (flower arranging)
BYOBO Japanese folding screens made from
several joined panels
TOKONOMA (toko) a built-in recessed space
in a Japanese style reception room
AZUCHI-MOMOYAMA PERIOD In response to a
militaristic time, the castle, a defense
structure, was built to keep out intruders or
attackers Defense Features
- Elaborate mazes of halls, corridors and
tunnels
JUGAN loopholes through which guns
(jugan) could be fired or arrows shot
(yamihazama)
ISHITOSHI a special chamber built over the
walls of the castles. Its floor could be opened
downwards to drop rocks onto the head of
attackers.
HIMEJI CASTLE (White Heron Castle) the
best of Japan's castle built by Ikeda Terumasa
EDO PERIOD brough back a lot of classic
Japanese Architecture
MINKA folk dwellings are vernacular houses
 MACHIYA (townhouses) - Pit dwellings (jomon period houses)
NOKA (farm dwellings)

JOMON PERIOD shape like tent with small

ridge on top of roof for ventilation
- Roof is made of long grass or skins of wood