Search The Directory The Web for Home > Regional > Asia > Japan > Arts and Entertainment > Traditional > Architecture New! Submit a site   Categories: Castles *(10)       whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Architecture - Historical overview, from early shrines to modern trends.   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.   Gassho-style Farmhouses - Fewer than 150 houses in this style remain. The ones discussed here have been recognized by both the national government and UNESCO as cultural treasures.   Historic Architecture in Kyoto - Photographs, basic historical facts and visitor info on the notable historic buildings of Kyoto.   Japanese Architecture - The tea room and the Sukiya style.   Kamakura - Photos of several temples and their grounds.   Katsura Rikyu - The buildings and landscape design of a 17th century Imperial villa.   Shoin Architecture - Illustrated discussion of the development of this Muromachi period style. Well organized.   The Ancient Capital of Nara and the Old Temple Todaiji - Reconstruction efforts, centering around the early 18th century transportation and installation of two enormous beams.   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.   The Traditional Japanese House - Architectural elements in terms of Japanese aesthetics and philosophy. Well illustrated.   Tondabayashi "The Sugiyama Family's Old House" - Edo period home of a wealthy sake brewer.   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.   Visual Arts: Architecture - Article discussing the impact of traditional concepts on modern Japanese architects.   Wood in Japanese Architecture - Study into use of wood in Japanese architecture, especially vernacular architecture.   World Heritage - Traditional Houses in the Gassho Style - The Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama. Photos, drawings, and analysis of the houses and their construction.. Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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