What is Japanese architecture? / Kazuo Nishi and Kazuo Hozumi ; translated, adapted, and with an introduction by H. Mack Horton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nishi, Kazuo, 1938-2015, author.

Hozumi, Kazuo, 1930-2024, author.

Contributor:

Horton, H. Mack, translator, adapter, writer of introduction.

Doki, H., bookjacket designer.

Wunsch, Aaron V., Former owner.

Standardized Title:

Nihon kenchiku no katachi. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Japanese literature--Translations into English.

Japanese literature.

Architecture--Japan--History--To 1868.

Architecture.

Japan.

History.

Architecture--Japan--Designs and plans.

Genre:

Architectural drawings.

Endpapers

Physical Description:

144 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Edition:

First English edition.

Place of Publication:

Tokyo ; New York : Kodansha International, 1985.

Summary:

How do you tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese architecture? How do you know, from the structure, the differences between a Buddhist temple from a Shinto shrine, from a residence? Construction, design, carpentry and the history of Japanese architecture from pre-history to the 19th century are the focus of this book with its 300 illustrations.

Contents:

Introduction

Worship : the architecture of Buddhist temples and Shintō shrines. Hōryūji temple and its symbol, the pagoda

The great eighth-century temples

Architecture of the Pure Land sect

New medieval forms : the Great Buddha Style

New medieval forms : the Zen Style

Details of the Great Buddha Style

Details of the Zen Style

The Medieval Japanese Style

The Golden and Silver Pavilions

Medieval construction methods

Temple architecture in the Early Modern period

Buddhist Architecture : structure and detail

Shintō shrines

Common shrine styles

The Yōmeimon Gate: Nikkō Tōshōgū Shrine

Japanese Baroque

The neighborhood shrine

The world of craftsmen

Construction techniques of the Edo Period

Daily life : residential and urban architecture. Houses of the Jōmon and Yayoi periods

Reconstructing Yayoi and Tumulus-Period dwellings

The ancient capitals

The Heijō and Heian capitals

Heijō : first of the great capitals

Residences of the Nara Period

The Heian Capital

The Shinden Style

Daily life in a Shinden Mansion

Commoners' dwellings

Residences of the Samurai

A formal audience in a warrior residence

The Shoin style : Early Modern residential architecture

The design systems of the Shoin

Katsura Detached Palace and the Sukiya Style

Sukiya-style decor

Minka : dwellings of the common people

Minka diversity

Provincial towns in the Edo Period

Japan's premodern cities

The Edo metropolis

Schools in the Edo period

Battle : castles and castle towns. Himeji : the grandest of the surviving castles

The historical development of castles

Castles in wartime

Castle defense

The twelve surviving donjons

Castle towns

Castle palaces

Entertainment : architecture in the Sukiya Spirit. The architecture of the tea ceremony

Designing the teahouse

Sōan teahouses

The tea garden

Staging the Nō Drama

The structure of the Nō Stage

The architecture of the Kabuki Theater

Improvements in Kabuki Theater design

The architecture of the Pleasure Quarters

Design in the Pleasure Quarters

Gracious pastimes at a Sukiya Complex

Entertainment fit for an emperor

Sites mentioned in the text

Museums and other facilities of architectural interest.

Notes:

Athenaeum circulating copy: Front endpapers printed with a map of sites mentioned in the book ; back endpapers contain a chart of architectural chronology.

Note: With the exception of the authors' names on the title page, all Japanese names in this book are given in the Japanese fashion, surname before given name. Provided by publisher.

Originally published under the title of: Nihon kenchiku no katachi : seikatsu to kenchiku-zōkei no rekishi Provided by publisher

Jacket designed by H. Doki.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 140-142.

ISBN:

0870117114

OCLC:

12220617