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 | 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.
|  | Architecture - Historical overview, from early shrines and temples to castles and modern trends.
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 | 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.
|  | 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.
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 | Historic Architecture in Kyoto - Photographs, basic historical facts and visitor info on the notable historic buildings of Kyoto.
|  | Japanese Architecture in Kansai - Structures such as temples, castles, tea rooms and their component elements.
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 | 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.
|  | Japanese Interiors - Examines aspects of Japanese homes and interior design. Articles on furniture, traditional materials such as hinoki and chestnut wood, and accessories such as imari porcelains, hanging scrolls, folding screens.
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 | Jaspanese Country Style (Minka-Ichiku) - Information on preserving and converting traditional Japanese farm houses (minka) for modern living. Contains additional material related to Yoshihiro Takishita's book "Japanese Country Style" and the houses he has built.
|  | Katsura Rikyu - The buildings and landscape design of a 17th century Imperial villa.
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 | Museum Meiji-Mura - Open air museum for preserving and exhibiting Japanese architecture of the Meiji period, 1868-1912.
|  | Response of Traditional Wooden Japanese Construction - Shows the weaknesses in traditional Japanese wooden homes in the face of earthquakes.
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 | Shoin Architecture - Illustrated discussion of the development of this Muromachi period style. Well organized.
|  | Tondabayashi "The Sugiyama Family's Old House" - Edo period home of a wealthy sake brewer.
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 | 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.
|  | The Traditional Japanese House - Details the elements of a traditional Japanese house, and the Japanese attitude toward aesthetics, balance, harmony, economy and beauty.
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.jpg) | Visual Arts: Architecture - Article discussing the impact of traditional concepts on modern Japanese architects.
|  | The World Heritage Shirakawa-go - Shirakawa Commerce and Industry Society provides a visitor guide to the village noted for its traditional Gassho style houses.
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