japan

1. japan

2. PALACES AND SHRINES • Japanese architecture: • Originally heavily influenced by Chinese architecture from the Tang Dynasty • Has also developed many unique differences and aspects indigenous to Japan as a result of dynamic changes throughout its long history. • THE KOFUN PERIOD (ca. A.D. 250-ca. 600) • KOFUN = old tomb of earth mounds. • The mounds contained large stone burial chambers. • Shaped like keyholes. • Surrounded by moats. • By the late Kofun period, the distinctive burial chambers, originally used by the ruling elite, also were built for commoners. • The most notable is Daisen-kofun, designated as the tomb of Emperor Nintoku. This is the biggest funeral ground in the world.

3. PALACES AND SHRINES • Asuka Architecture • the oldest surviving wooden buildings in the world :the Hōryū-ji– as the private temple of Crown Prince Shotoku. • The Kondo (Golden Hall), in the style of Chinese worship halls, is a two-story structure of post-and-beam construction, capped by an irimoya, or. • hipped-gabled roof of ceramic tiles. • - The five-storey pagoda, also constructed around 700. It was built by carpenters from Paekche, a kingdom in southwest Korea. • consists of 41 independent buildings; the most important ones, the main worship hall, or Kondo (Golden Hall), and Goju-no-to (Five-story Pagoda), stand in the center of an open area surrounded by a roofed cloister. • irimoya, hipped-gabled roof of ceramic tiles