Architecture in Japan

Japanese shrine of the Shinto religion

A is a hall or place for immersive learning, experiential learning, or meditation. This is traditionally in the field of martial arts. The term literally means "place of the Way" in Japanese.

Japanese process of planning, designing and constructing buildings and other structures

thumb|A room in the Tamatsukuri Onsen thumb|Ryokan (Arima Onsen) thumb|Ryokan interior, hallway thumb|Ryokan interior, door and stairs

thumb|260px|Entrance to the sentō at the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum is a type of Japanese communal bathhouse where customers pay for entrance. Traditionally these bathhouses have been quite utilitarian, with a tall barrier separating the sexes within one large room, a minimum of lined-up faucets on both sides, and a single large bath for the already washed bathers to sit in among others. Since the second half of the 20th century, these communal bathhouses have been decreasing in numbers as more and more Japanese residences now have baths. Some Japanese find social importance in g

architectural style

thumb|The Tōmatsu house from Funairi-chō, Nagoya, is an example of a large . thumb| façade in Kyoto thumb|right|Old fabric shop in Nara, Nara|Nara are traditional wooden townhouses found throughout Japan and typified in the historical capital of Kyoto. ('townhouses') and ('farm dwellings') constitute the two categories of Japanese vernacular architecture known as ('folk dwellings').

right|thumb|A -styled home in Shirakawa, Gifu (village)|Shirakawa village, [[Gifu Prefecture]] are vernacular houses constructed in any one of several traditional Japanese building styles. In the context of the four divisions of society, were the dwellings of farmers, artisans, and merchants (i.e., the three non-samurai castes). This connotation no longer exists in the modern Japanese language, and any traditional Japanese-style residence of appropriate age could be referred to as . thumb|Okugame minka farmhouse are characterized by their basic structure, their roof structure, and their roo

thumb|A small hokora in Kyoto. Though the hokora are usually categorized as Shintoist, they are often decorated with a swastika which in Japan is a symbol associated with Buddhism. In Kyoto especially, many hokora are actually dedicated to Kannon, a [[bodhisattva, rather than Shinto deities.]] thumb|The character 祠

thumb|225 px|The sandō at Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto

thumb|A Mount Tai shigandang () in [[Beijing, China.]] thumb|Shigandang erected at the entrance of a lane, etc., to drive away misfortune or evil spirits. thumb|An ishigantō in Okinawa (city)|Okinawa, Japan Shigandang (; ) is an ornamental stone tablet with writing, which is used to exorcise evil spirits in East Asia. Shigandang are often associated with Mount Tai and are often placed on street intersections or three-way junctions, especially in the crossing, which is often considered a spiritually dangerous place ().

thumb|300 px|Yellow: Moya (architecture)|moya; red: mokoshi, white: hisashi In Japanese architecture , literally "skirt storey" or "cuff storey", is a decorative pent roof surrounding a building below the true roof. Since it does not correspond to any internal division, the mokoshi gives the impression of there being more floors than there really are. It is usually a ken deep and is most commonly seen in Buddhist temples and pagodas (see for example the article tahōtō). The mokoshi normally covers a hisashi, a walled aisle surrounding a building on one or more sides, but can be attached direct

type of traditional Ainu Settlement

thumb|300 px|Tsurugaoka Hachimangū-ji in an old drawing. In the foreground the shrine-temple's Buddhist structures (not extant), among them a pagoda, a belltower and a [[niōmon. The shrine (extant) is above.]] Until the Meiji period (1868–1912), the were places of worship composed of a Buddhist temple and a Shinto shrine, both dedicated to a local kami. These complexes were born when a temple was erected next to a shrine to help its kami with its karmic problems. At the time, kami were thought to be also subjected to karma, and therefore in need of a salvation only Buddhism could provide. Havi

national treasures of Japan, castles

7thC miniature Japanese shrine

thumb|Preparing the washing area in a tea ceremony room, woodblock by Toshikata Mizuno, 1896 is the term for the preparation area in a Japanese tea house (') or attached to any venue used for the Japanese tea ceremony. For instance, the area used for preparation during outdoor tea ceremonies is also called the . The term can also refer to purificatory fonts at shrines and temples, as well as to storage cupboards for use in kitchens. This article, however, focuses on the tea ceremony '.

library in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

organisation involved in scholarly research

Japanese organization for architects

thumb|A shrine surrounded by a tamagaki A is a fence surrounding a Japanese Shinto shrine, a sacred area or an imperial palace. Believed to have been initially just a brushwood barrier of trees, tamagaki have since been made of a variety of materials including wood, stone and—in recent years—concrete. Depending on the material and technique utilized, such fences have a variety of names: made of roughly finished thick boards, made of unpeeled or unstripped boards or logs, , and , , made of vertically set thin strips of bamboo or wood, The simple fences of ancient and medieval times became

American architect (1880–1964)

Japanese traditional storehouse

thumb|300 px|Yellow: moya, white: Hisashi (architecture)|hisashi, red: [[mokoshi]]In Japanese architecture, the is the core of a building. Originally, the central part of a residential building was called omoya. After the introduction of Buddhism to Japan in the 6th century, moya has been used to denote the sacred central area of a temple building. It is generally surrounded by aisle like areas called hisashi. In temples constructed in the hip-and-gable style (irimoya-zukuri), the gabled part usually covers the moya while the hipped part covers the aisles.

building in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan