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	The Traditional Japanese House - http://www.midwestworldfest.org/student/japan/frames/4a_pubenviro.html Architectural elements in terms of Japanese aesthetics and philosophy. Well illustrated.
	Gassho-style Farmhouses - http://jin.jcic.or.jp/atlas/architecture/arc08.html Fewer than 150 houses in this style remain. The ones discussed here have been recognized by both the national government and UNESCO as cultural treasures.
	Historic Architecture in Kyoto - http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp./org/orion/eng/hstj/histj.html Photographs, basic historical facts and visitor info on the notable historic buildings of Kyoto.
	Architecture - http://www.jinjapan.org/today/culture/culture6.html#arc Historical overview, from early shrines to modern trends.
	Shoin Architecture - http://www.columbia.edu/itc/ealac/V3613/shoin/mainpage.htm Illustrated discussion of the development of this Muromachi period style. Well organized.

	Museum Meiji-Mura - http://www.meijimura.com/english/index-e.html Open air museum for preserving and exhibiting Japanese architecture of the Meiji period, 1868-1912.
	Chiiori Project - http://www.chiiori.org Preserving old thatched roof houses in rural Japan. For people concerned with saving and preserving the kayabuki houses that are being lost at an alarming rate.
	Japanese Architecture - http://www.kippo.or.jp/culture/build/beauty/naka_e.htm The tea room and the Sukiya style.
	Japanese Architecture in Kansai - http://www.kansai.gr.jp/culture/build_e.htm Structures such as temples, castles, tea rooms and their component elements.
	Tondabayashi "The Sugiyama Family's Old House" - http://www.kiis.or.jp/kansaida/tondabayashi/tondabayashi04-e.html Edo period home of a wealthy sake brewer.

	The World Heritage Shirakawa-go - http://www.vill.shirakawa.gifu.jp/e/ Shirakawa Commerce and Industry Society provides a visitor guide to the village noted for its traditional Gassho style houses.
	Katsura Rikyu - http://www.jgc.co.jp/waza/a3_katsura/rikyu02.htm The buildings and landscape design of a 17th century Imperial villa.
	The Ancient Capital of Nara and the Old Temple Todaiji - http://www.jgc.co.jp/waza/a1_nara/todaij01.htm Reconstruction efforts, centering around the early 18th century transportation and installation of two enormous beams.
	The Japanese House - http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/410JapHouseTxE1.html Analysis of traditional Japanese domestic architecture as being based on long standing attitudes towards ideas of harmony. B&W illustrations on separate pages.
	Toshogu: a Seventeenth Century Monument - http://www.jgc.co.jp/waza/a2_nikko/toshog01.htm The construction of the Nikko Toshogu, mausoluem of the first Tokugawa shogun, Ieyasu, and the story of the project manager, Kohra Munehiro.

	Visual Arts: Architecture - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+jp0119) Article discussing the impact of traditional concepts on modern Japanese architects.
	Jaspanese Country Style (Minka-Ichiku) - http://www.minka-ichiku.com/ Information on preserving and converting traditional Japanese farm houses (minka) for modern living. Contains additional material related to Yoshihiro Takishita's book "Japanese Country Style" and the houses he has built.

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