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Hindu ornament no. 2: ornaments from shrines in Burma (Myanmar) and the Ajunta Caves, India
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SOURCE: Owen Jones. The Grammar of ornament (London, 1856), pl. LVII
Shrines & Temples: A) Jericho; B) Yasa Depe; C) Tepe Gawra; D) Dashliji; E) Eridu; F) Djeitun; G-K) Catal Huyuk: plans and axonometrics
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SOURCE: Dan Cruickshank (ed.). Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of architecture, 20th ed. (Oxford: Architectural Press, 1996), p. 36
Japanese Shrines; A) Shimmei torii; B) Myojin torii; C) Kamo-no-Wakeikazuchi shrine, Kyoto; D) Usa shrine, Kyushu; E) Kasuga shrine, Nara: plans and elevations
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SOURCE: Dan Cruickshank (ed.). Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of architecture, 20th ed. (Oxford: Architectural Press, 1996), p. 725
Examples of Japanese architecture; A) Temple of Miyo-Jin-Kanda, Tokyo, Japan; B) Tea house, Japan; C-D) Japanese middle-class House; E-F) public baths, Japan; G) Tenno-Ji Pagoda, Osaka, Japan; H) Altar Shrine Temple of Miyo-Jin; J) Japanese lamp; K) Japanese compound brackets; L) Japanese font shed;
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SOURCE: J. C. Palmes (ed.). Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of architecture, 18th ed. (London: Athlone Press, 1975), p. 162
Study of the Oratory of the Holy Cross, San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome: plan
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NOTES: This drawing is numbered VIII/3 verso in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection. The building was demolished in 1588-1589 as part of Pope Sixtus V's urban renewal schemes.
Sumiyoshi-taisha (Sumiyoshi Grand Shrine), Osaka: two of the four main shrine buildings, built in the Sumiyoshi-zukuri style, with two prayer halls at right angles
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NOTES: The original shrine was founded in the 3rd century, but the current buildings date back to the early nineteenth century. It has been rebuilt in the Sumiyoshi-zukuri style which was the characteristic architecture of the Shinto shrines which predate the arrival of Buddhism in Japan. They were constructed like ancient dwellings, of timber with pitched and gabled roofs, thatched with reed or cypress bark. The prayer halls are of a different style.
Sumiyoshi-taisha (Sumiyoshi Grand Shrine), Osaka: two of the four main shrine buildings, built in the Sumiyoshi-zukuri style, with the two prayer halls at right angles
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NOTES: The original shrine was founded in the 3rd century, but the current buildings date back to the early nineteenth century. It has been rebuilt in the Sumiyoshi-zukuri style which was the characteristic architecture of the Shinto shrines which predate the arrival of Buddhism in Japan. They were constructed like ancient dwellings, of timber with pitched and gabled roofs, thatched with reed or cypress bark. The prayer halls are of a different style.
Sumiyoshi-taisha (Sumiyoshi Grand Shrine), Osaka: two of the four main shrine buildings, built in the Sumiyoshi-zukuri style, with two prayer halls at right angles at the rear of the site
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NOTES: The original shrine was founded in the 3rd century, but the current buildings date back to the early nineteenth century. It has been rebuilt in the Sumiyoshi-zukuri style which was the characteristic architecture of the Shinto shrines which predate the arrival of Buddhism in Japan. They were constructed like ancient dwellings, of timber with pitched and gabled roofs, thatched with reed or cypress bark. The prayer halls are of a different style.
Sumiyoshi-taisha (Sumiyoshi Grand Shrine), Osaka: one of the four main shrine buildings, built in the Sumiyoshi-zukuri style
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NOTES: The original shrine was founded in the 3rd century, but the current buildings date back to the early nineteenth century. It has been rebuilt in the Sumiyoshi-zukuri style which was the characteristic architecture of the Shinto shrines which predate the arrival of Buddhism in Japan. They were constructed like ancient dwellings, of timber with pitched and gabled roofs, thatched with reed or cypress bark. The prayer halls are of a different style.