Architecture
Historical overview, from early shrines to modern trends. URL: http://www.jinjapan.org/today/culture/culture6.html#arc
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Chiiori Project
Preserving old thatched roof houses in rural Japan. For people concerned with saving and preserving the kayabuki houses that are being lost at an alarming rate. URL: http://www.chiiori.org
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Historic Architecture in Kyoto
Photographs, basic historical facts and visitor info on the notable historic buildings of Kyoto. URL: http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp./org/orion/eng/hstj/histj.html
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Katsura Rikyu
The buildings and landscape design of a 17th century Imperial villa. URL: http://www.jgc.co.jp/waza/a3_katsura/rikyu02.htm
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Museum Meiji-Mura
Open air museum for preserving and exhibiting Japanese architecture of the Meiji period, 1868-1912. URL: http://www.meijimura.com/english/index-e.html
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Shoin Architecture
Illustrated discussion of the development of this Muromachi period style. Well organized. URL: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/ealac/V3613/shoin/mainpage.htm
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The Japanese House
Analysis of traditional Japanese domestic architecture as being based on long standing attitudes towards ideas of harmony. B&W illustrations on separate pages. URL: http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/410JapHouseTxE1.html
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The World Heritage Shirakawa-go
Shirakawa Commerce and Industry Society provides a visitor guide to the village noted for its traditional Gassho style houses. URL: http://www.vill.shirakawa.gifu.jp/e/
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Toshogu: a Seventeenth Century Monument
The construction of the Nikko Toshogu, mausoluem of the first Tokugawa shogun, Ieyasu, and the story of the project manager, Kohra Munehiro. URL: http://www.jgc.co.jp/waza/a2_nikko/toshog01.htm
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Visual Arts: Architecture
Article discussing the impact of traditional concepts on modern Japanese architects. URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+jp0119)
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