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The Japanese Shōya House: An Encyclopedia of Japanese Architecture

Name: The Japanese Shōya House: An Encyclopedia of Japanese Architecture | The Huntington
Location: The Huntington

Yukio Lippit, professor of Japanese art and architecture at Harvard University, discusses how The Huntington’s Shōya House offers a unique opportunity to explore an abundance of ideas and elements about Japanese architecture as a whole.

Lectures

Among the many remarkable aspects of the Japanese Heritage Shōya House is its amalgamation of architectural concepts and features that had developed in diverse building traditions in Japan over the centuries. By the Edo period (1615–1868), Japanese residential architecture in both urban centers and rural communities throughout the archipelago had begun to follow similar patterns of approach and layout. The homes of shōya (village headmen) were distinctive in combining elements of city and country, as well as of warrior and commoner status groups.

This lecture is presented by the Center for East Asian Garden Studies.