Category: Architecture
Fig. 1.—View in Tokio, showing shops and houses. (Copied from a Photograph). Fig. 2.—View in Tokio, showing temples and gardens. (Copied from a Photograph). Fig. 3.—View of Enoshima (Copied from a Photograph). Fig. 4.—Side Framing. Fig 5.—Pounding Down Foundation Stones. Fig....
The interior of a Japanese house is so simple in its construction, and so unlike anything to which we are accustomed in the arrangement of details of interiors in this country,...
3. CHAPTER II. TYPES OF HOUSES.Writers on Japan have often commented upon the absence of any grand or imposing architectural edifices in that country; and they have offered in explanation, that in a country s...
5. CHAPTER IV. INTERIORS (CONTINUED).The kitchen, as an apartment, varies quite as much in Japan as it does in our country, and varies in the same way; that is to say, in the country, in houses of the better class,...
2. CHAPTER I.A BIRD’S‐EYE view of a large city in Japan presents an appearance quite unlike that presented by any large assemblage of buildings at home. A view of Tokio, for example, from so...
6. CHAPTER V. ENTRANCES AND APPROACHES.The study of the house‐architecture of Japan, as compared with that of America, it is curious to observe the relative degree of importance given to similar features by the two p...
8. CHAPTER VII. MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.With the exception of a few of the larger cities, the water‐supply of Japan is by means of wooden wells sunk in the ground. In Tokio, besides the ordinary forms of wells which a...
10. CHAPTER IX. THE NEIGHBORING HOUSE.Having got a glimpse, and a slight glimpse only, of the ancient house in Japan, it may be of interest to consider briefly the character of the house in neighboring islands formi...
1. CHAPTER IX. THE NEIGHBORING HOUSE.Fig. 1.—View in Tokio, showing shops and houses. (Copied from a Photograph). Fig. 2.—View in Tokio, showing temples and gardens. (Copied from a Photograph). Fig. 3.—View of Enos...
7. CHAPTER VI. GARDENS.The Japanese garden, like the house, presents features that never enter into similar places in America. With us it is either modelled after certain French styles, or it is simpl...
9. CHAPTER VIII. THE ANCIENT HOUSE.It would be an extremely interesting line of research to follow out the history of the development of the house in Japan. The material for such a study may possibly be in existe...
11. part i.; Dr. Geerts, ibid., vol. vii. part iii.Dr. O. Korschelt has made an extremely valuable contribution to the Asiatic Society of Japan, on the water‐supply of Tokio. Aided by Japanese students, he has made many analyses...