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What is Japanese Architecture?: A Survey of Traditional Japanese Architecture

ISBN-13: 9781568364124

Author(s): Kazuo Nishi

Subjects: AM

Publisher: Kodansha Europe Head Office

Publisher Imprint: Kodansha USA

Publication Date: 11-10-2012

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£32.00

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What is Japanese Architecture?: A Survey of Traditional Japanese Architecture

About the book

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

What is Japanese Architecture?: A Survey of Traditional Japanese Architecture

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