Reconstruction efforts, centering around the early 18th century transportation and installation of two enormous beams.
The buildings and landscape design of a 17th century Imperial villa.
The construction of the Nikko Toshogu, mausoluem of the first Tokugawa shogun, Ieyasu, and the story of the project manager, Kohra Munehiro.
Edo period home of a wealthy sake brewer.
Analysis of traditional Japanese domestic architecture as being based on long standing attitudes towards ideas of harmony. B&W illustrations on separate pages.
Article discussing the impact of traditional concepts on modern Japanese architects.
Illustrated discussion of the development of this Muromachi period style. Well organized.
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.
Photographs, basic historical facts and visitor info on the notable historic buildings of Kyoto.
Shirakawa Commerce and Industry Society provides a visitor guide to the village noted for its traditional Gassho style houses.
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