Shoko-ken : a late medieval daime sukiya style Japanese tea-house / Robin Noel Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Robin Noel.

Series:

East Asia (New York, N.Y.)

East Asia, history, politics, sociology and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chashitsu (Japanese tearooms)--Japan--Kyoto.

Chashitsu (Japanese tearooms).

Architecture, Sukiya--Japan--Kyoto.

Architecture, Sukiya.

Architecture--Japan--History--Kamakura-Momoyama periods, 1185-1600.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The late medieval sukiya tea-house is recognised by scholars and architects as the precursor for the modern and contemporary Japanese architectural tradition. This form is also seen to have contributed significantly to aspects of Western architectural tradition. The daime style is possibly the most distinctively 'Japanese', enigmatic and oldest form located within the sukiya tradition. The work examines the Shoko-ken tea-house, built in 1628, at the Koto-in temple in the precincts of Daitoku-ji monastery in Kyoto. The Shoko-ken is one of the few remaining extant constructions of its type da

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1.0 Background to the study; 1.1 Identity & Representation; 1.11 Hosokawa Tadaoki-Hosokawa Sansai; 1.12. Shoko-ken & Hosokawa Sansai's other tea-houses; 1.13 Textural Resource-Representations of sukiya architecture; 1.131 Early Europeans; 1.132 Modernist Architects; 1.133 Tea Proponents; 1.2 Terms of the 'face'; 1.21 Sukiya; 1.22 Konomi; 1.23 Furyu; 1.24 Sakui; 1.3 Measuring the 'face'; 1.31 Authenticity; 1.32 Measured Drawing; 2.0 Internal Architecture; 2.1 Zashiki; 2.11 Zashiki Plan; 2.12 Spatial Organisation

2.13 Components, Materials, Finishes2.2 Tsugi-no ma; 2.3 Katte; 3.0 External Architecture; 4.0 Inner Garden; 5.0 Outer Garden; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-316) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-84328-5

1-136-07258-6

0-203-44617-8

9780203446171

OCLC:

821176264