Research topic: Japanese architecture

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1:25 scale Miniature Japanese architecture at Tobu World Square. (Image by Fred Hsu, GFDL)

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Japanese architecture

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Japanese architecture structures created on the islands that constitute Japan. 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. Religious Architecture The more highly developed religious architecture of China came to Japan with the introduction of Buddhism in the 6th cent. Late in the 7th cent. the great monastery of Horyu-ji, near Nara, was near completion. The gateway, temple, and pagoda remained practically untouched until the 20th cent., wh... Read more
Japanese art and architecture
Japanese art and architecture Earliest surviving examples of Japanese art are Jomon pottery figurines...the best-known examples of Japanese art were produced in the...from this period. Modern Japanese artists have made important...century art and design. Japanese architecture ... Read more
cosmic architecture
cosmic architecture. Term used by Japanese architect Monta Mozuna (1941– ) to describe his architecture from the 1970s, supposedly inspired by cosmology. Bibliography Bognar (1985, 1990–2) Read more

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