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Japanese architecture.
Muromachi Architecture. During the Muromachi period (1338-1573), also called
Ashikaga period to be the name of the governing military clan, a deep change in
the Japanese culture had an operation. The clan became position of the sogunado
one and returned to install the seat of the government in the capital, in the
district of Muromachi de Kioto, which meant the end of the popular tendencies of
the Kamakura period and the adoption of more aristocratic and elitist cultural
forms of expression. The Buddhism Zen, the Ch'an sect, which according to the
tradition was founded on China in the century I SAW, was introduced for the
second time in Japan, where it rooted. An important newness of the time is the
ceremony of the tea, and the place where it was celebrated; its purpose was to
carefully pass the time with the loving friends of the arts, releasing the mind
of the preoccupations of the daily life taking a tea prepared and served with
exquisite modals and taste in a precious earthen bowl. Aesthetic teahouse the
deceptively simple one of the rural houses was chosen for them, giving
preference to natural materials like the trunks with its crusts that formed the
outer walls and straw weaves for the inner splitters.
Architecture of the Edo period. The imperial palace Katsura combines
elements of the Japanese classic architecture with innovating reframing. All the
set is surrounded by a beautiful garden with footpaths to take a walk.
Sanctuary of Ise. In the sacred sanctuaries of Ise Jingú, in the bay of
Ise, the old traditions of the sintoísta religion are conserved. The main
complex consists of two sanctuaries, each one of them surrounded by four wood
fences. The imperial sanctuary is dedicated to Amaterasu Omikami, the goddess
del sun, from which according to the tradition, the imperial family of Japan
descends. The outer santario is dedicated to Toyouke Okami, goddess of
agriculture and the harvests. In both, the main enclosure where is the sanctuary
itself, has flanked by warehouses and houses of the guardians and the clergy.
The sacred enclosure guarded the public, is demolished and it becomes to rise to
every 20 years, alternating the place in which it is reconstructed. This process
of renovation, that comes making from years 690, allows that three successive
generations of craftsmen carry out the delicate workings of carpentry in each
reconstruction. In this building they are possible to be observed the perfection
in the detail and the exciting simplicity so admired in the Japanese
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