TRADITIONAL DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF JAPAN Building HC

1979 TRADITIONAL DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF JAPAN HC DJ

This 152 page hard cover, illustrated book with dust jacket (185mm x 240mm, 7.25” x 9.5”) was published by Weatherill/Heibonsha, New York and Tokyo, 1979 and is a third printing. The first English edition was published in 1972. It was written by Teiji Itoh and is copiously illustrated throughout with monochrome and colour photos plus floor plans and diagrams.

“Traditional Japanese domestic architecture is epitomized in the minka; the houses of the common people built during the feudal age that preceded Japan’s nineteenth century. Of the many forms in which the Japanese architectural genius has expressed itself, probably none has more immediate appeal for the Westerner than these commoner’s dwellings in country and in town…”

Contents:

1. The Traditional House in the World of Today
2. The Minka Design Method – Floor Plans and Post Placement, Basic Structures, The Post as Symbol, Functional Durability, The Area Under The Eaves
3. The Development of Special Minka Characteristics – Regional Traits and Social Symbolism, Roof-Struss Structures, The Influence of Roof Structures on Floor Plans, Module Based on Tatami or Interpost Span, Making Structural Members, Regional Status Symbols, The Strength and Weakness of Sumptuary Edicts
4. Before The Minka
5. The Minka from Medieval to Early Modern Times – Houses of the Heian and Kamakura Periods, The Rin’ami House and the Jitogata Mandokoro Sennenya, Urban Houses of Sixteenth Century Nara and Kyoto, Houses of The Early Edo Period
6. Shops and Farmhouses of the Edo Period

Condition: The book is in very good, clean, bright condition. The dust jacket has wear and tiny closed tears at the top corners.

Weight: 630g

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