This category is for Japanese traditional (non-Western)architecture.
Websites in Japanese should be submitted to World: Japanese.
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Sites 7
- Tondabayashi "The Sugiyama Family's Old House" Edo period home of a wealthy sake brewer.
- The Japanese House Analysis of traditional Japanese domestic architecture as being based on long standing attitudes towards ideas of harmony. Black and white illustrations on separate pages.
- Visual Arts: Architecture Article discussing the impact of traditional concepts on modern Japanese architects.
- Shoin Architecture Illustrated discussion of the development of this Muromachi period style. Well organized.
- 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.
- Architecture Examines architecture in Japan influenced by foreign cultures as well as climate; landscape and examples of both traditional and modern architecture including temples, shrines, castles and bridges.
- Architecture Historical overview, from early shrines and temples to castles and modern trends.