fusuma-e

sho-in style architecture

Daitokuji texts mostly 17th-18th c.
--Tea
"riding a bicycle"
wabi-cha
toriawase
ichigo ichie
Tenmoku, Song Fukien, Kyushu Nat'l Museum
Ido-style bowl "Kizaemon" 16th c. Choson. Kohoan Daitokuji
Raku ware, Rakuu Choujirou (to 1589) Momoyama
" Raku, "Shishi" Rakuu Ryonyu (1756-1834) Edo, Freer Gallery
" Raku Kichizaemon
Shino ware "Hashihime", Azuchi-Momoyama, Tokyo Nat'l Museum
Oribe ware Furuta Oribe (17th c.)
--tea architecture
wabi design overall
san
Joan 1618 by Oda Yraku, Kyoto Kenninji
Taian Sen Rikyu for Toyotomi Hideyoshi
garden, stone path, crawl door, window allows enough light for guests to see, ar
chitectural framings
--Historical Preservation

carpenter patriarchal lineages slowly adapting/dying out

recent Japan national level oversight
: austerity, Ministry of Education etc.
Cultural Properties Dept.
under Law for cultural properties
most preservation is at prefectural & local level
architectural engineers, not carpenters
How does a building make history?
not fixing structures but making meaning with structures
Japan: wood-based, joinery architecture
repair reports as interpretive texts, clones

recorded engagement with buildings becomes history

Gyokurin'in
Geshin Soin statue w/ burnt head of former Geshin Soin statue inside
(J.) cypress gets stronger w/ age, non-rigid tensile strength, aromatic, low sap
--chronology of tatchu renovations
shingled not tiled roofs b/c of weight
dating for initial construction/renovation is off, for Daisen'in, Jukoin
restoration repair