Japanese architectural styles

thumb|Fusuma thumb|Kin-busuma (golden fusuma) In Japanese architecture, are vertical rectangular panels which can slide from side to side to redefine spaces within a room, or act as doors. They typically measure about wide by tall, the same size as a tatami mat, and are thick. The heights of fusuma have increased in recent years due to an increase in average height of the Japanese population, and a height is now common. In older constructions, they are as small as high. They consist of a lattice-like wooden understructure covered in cardboard and a layer of paper or cloth on both sides. They t

thumb|Dougong inside the East Hall timber hall of Foguang Temple, built in 857 during the [[Tang dynasty]] thumb|Dougong brackets on an Eastern Han dynasty|Eastern Han (25–220 CE) era architectural model of a watchtower thumb|A stone-carved relief above a cave entrance of the Yungang Grottoes ([[Shanxi province) showing an imitation of dougong brackets, Northern Wei dynasty (386–535 CE)]] thumb|Stone pillars made in imitation of wooden dougong and "人-shaped gong" (Chinese: 人字栱) at cave entrance of Tianlongshan Grottoes, Northern Qi. Dougong (Chinese: 斗拱; pinyin: dǒugǒng; lit. 'cap [and] block'

thumb|300 px|Model of the Higashi Sanjo-dono|Higashi Sanjō-dono (ja), a typical shinden-zukuri architectural complex (no longer extant). ---- 1. Shinden (寝殿), 2. Kita-no-tai (北対), 3. Hosodono (細殿), 4. Higashi-no-tai 東対, 5. Higashi-kita-no-tai (東北対) 6. Samurai-dokoro (侍所), 7. Watadono (渡殿), 8. Chūmon-rō (中門廊), 9. Tsuridono (釣殿)

is a style of Japanese architecture developed in the Muromachi, Azuchi–Momoyama and Edo periods that forms the basis of today's traditional-style Japanese houses. Characteristics of the development were the incorporation of square posts and floors, i.e. those completely covered with tatami. The style takes its name from the , a term that originally meant a study and a place for lectures on sutras in a temple, but which later came to mean just a drawing room or study.

architecture of Japanese Shinto shrines

Japanese architectural style

thumbnail|275px|Katsura Imperial Villa, Kyoto, an early example of sukiya style. Note that the right-hand building is older than the left-hand one, and more similar to the older shoin style. is one type of Japanese residential architectural style. Suki (Ateji: 数寄 or 数奇) means refined, well cultivated taste and delight in elegant pursuits, and refers to enjoyment of the exquisitely performed tea ceremony.

a style of Japanese architecture which outwardly resembled Western-style construction in Meiji period

thumb|Kōzan-ji (Shimonoseki)|Kōzan-ji's butsuden in Shimonoseki is a Japanese Buddhist architectural style derived from Chinese Song Dynasty architecture. Named after the Zen sect of Buddhism which brought it to Japan, it emerged in the late 12th or early 13th century. Together with Wayō and Daibutsuyō, it is one of the three most significant styles developed by Japanese Buddhism on the basis of Chinese models. Until World War II, this style was called but, like the Daibutsuyō style, it was re-christened by Ōta Hirotarō, a 20th-century scholar. Its most typical features are a more or less lin

275 px|Tōdai-ji's Nandaimon is one of the few extant examples of the daibutsuyō|thumb is a Japanese religious architectural style which emerged in the late 12th or early 13th century. Together with Wayō and Zenshūyō, it is one of the three most significant styles developed by Japanese Buddhism on the basis of Chinese models. Originally called , because it had nothing to do with India it was rechristened by scholar Ōta Hirotarō during the 20th century, and the new term stuck. Ōta derived the name from Chōgen's work, particularly Tōdai-ji's Daibutsuden.

thumb|Ichijō-ji's [[pagoda is an example of the wayō style.]] is a Buddhist architectural style developed in Japan before the Kamakura period (1185－1333), and is one of the important Buddhist architectural styles in Japan along with Daibutsuyō and the Zenshūyō, which were developed based on Chinese architectural styles from the Kamakura period. This style originated in the Asuka (538－710) and Nara period (710－794), when Japanese studied Buddhist architecture of the Tang dynasty, and was improved in the Heian period (794－1185) to suit the Japanese climate and aesthetic sense. After the Kamakur

western-influenced Architectural movement in Japan