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Author Walker, Robin Noel.

Title Shōkō-ken : a late medieval daime sukiya style Japanese tea-house / Robin Noel Walker
Published New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations
Series East Asia, history, politics, sociology and culture
East Asia (New York, N.Y.)
Contents 1. Background to the study -- 1.1. Identity & rRepresentation -- 1.2. Terms of the 'face' -- 1.3. Measuring the 'face' -- 2. Internal architecture -- 2.1. Zashiki -- 2.2. Tsugi-no ma -- 2.3. Katte -- 3. External architecture 4. Inner garden -- 5. Outer garden
Summary The late medieval sukiya tea-house is recognised by scholars and architects as the precursor for the modern and contemporary Japanese architectural tradition. This form is also seen to have contributed significantly to aspects of Western architectural tradition. The daime style is possibly the most distinctively 'Japanese', enigmatic and oldest form located within the sukiya tradition. The work examines the Shoko-ken tea-house, built in 1628, at the Koto-in temple in the precincts of Daitoku-ji monastery in Kyoto. The Shoko-ken is one of the few remaining extant constructions of its type da
Bibliography Includes bibliographical referencesand index
Subject Chashitsu (Japanese tearooms) -- Japan -- Kyoto
Architecture, Sukiya -- Japan -- Kyoto
Architecture -- Japan -- History -- Kamakura-Momoyama periods, 1185-1600.
ARCHITECTURE -- History -- Prehistoric & Primitive.
Architecture -- Kamakura-Momoyama periods
Architecture, Sukiya
Chashitsu (Japanese tearooms)
Japan
Japan -- Kyoto
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002031756
ISBN 9781136072581
1136072586
1283843285
9781283843287
0203446178
9780203446171
9781136072666
1136072667