User:AerobicFox/Edo period Architecture
Edo period architecture continued in the Momoyama period tradition of erecting grand, elaborate structures for public display, while using modest, simple designs for private dwellings.
Setting
[edit]1600-1868 Tokugawa takes over and moves the capital city from Kyoto—Japan's historical capital— to Edo(present day Tokyo).
Characteristics
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Trying to reduce structures to their bare essential forms
Preservation
[edit]References
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- Footnotes
- Bibliography
- Coaldrake, William H. (1988). "The Gatehouse of the Shogun's Senior Councillor: Building Design and Status Symbolism in Japanese Architecture of the Late Edo Period". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 47 (4). University of California Press. Retrieved 21 Feb. 2011.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - O'riley, Michael (2001). Hattersley-Smith, Kara (ed.). Art Beyond the West:the arts of Africa, India and Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea, the Pacific, and the Americas. Afterword by Anne D'alleva (1st ed.). Calmann & King. pp. 192–196. ISBN 0-13-042255-X.