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Traditional Japanese architecture—whether Buddhist temples or Shinto shrines, residences, castles, or teahouses—has become increasingly familiar around the world. Through the media of motion pictures, art books, T.V. documentaries and dramas such as Shogun, as well as through personal experience, more and more people have gained an acquaintance and appreciation of the architecture of premodern Japan. Some may even be able to name or recognize the oldest and the largest wooden structures in exist
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- Author
- Kazuo Nishi and Kazuo Hozumi
- Publisher
- Kodansha International; Kodansha USA
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780870117114
- Category
- design
- Subjects
- Architecture, History, Art
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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