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Architecture of Japan the Most Interesting Info |
Travel
Japan to touch its vivid and bright
culture and art!
It's easy to outline some currents and
aspects of architecture of Japan, but it's almost impossible to
describe it properly in several hundreds of words. To tell the
truth each epoch of history of
Japan left its architecture track, and there were several periods,
but the most prominent are (some examples are added):
- Asuka and Nara includes wooden
Buddhist temples and worship altars (Horyu-ji, Todaiji, etc.);
- Heian, the main feature of the
style is that the temples were built in the mountains to make them
protected from warriors and wars, some differences are tiled roofs,
wooden floors, (Byodoin Phoenix Hall);
- Kamakura's characteristic is tea
spread, tea drinking became a social event, the Japanese created Tea Ceremony
and for Sado, Tea way, special buildings were erected. They were made
with straw and logs;
- Azuchi-Monomay style emerged at the
war period that's why it was mainly defensive castles that were built
and mostly in the mountains or at the river cliffs (Himeji
Castle,
Nijo Castle);
- Edo is a city that had fires often,
that's why it had to be easy to rebuild it, and the architecture was
rather simple;
- Meji period is characterized with
foreign styles prevalence (Tokyo Train station and National Diet
Building, the legislature building);
- Modern, having mostly steel and
concrete constructions and as little wood as possible since the islands
have often earthquakes. And cities have a lot of skyscrapers of various
forms.
Travel Japan as it's worth a visit because of its numerous
amazing architectural legacies. It should be noted that there are
several sights that have been declared to be World's Heritage and
architecture of Japan is unique, no where else in the world you will
see such buidings, temples and shrines. Arcitecture of Japan is great,
impressive and outstanding!
Travel Japan and
see extremely various and rich architecture, and without doubt
it can be called one of
the main adventures.
Travel Japan to experience its best!
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