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Japanese architecture: PALACES AND SHRINES Japanese architecture: Originally heavily influenced by Chinese architecture from the Tang Dynasty Has also developed many unique differences and aspects indigenous to Japan as a result of dynamic changes throughout its long history. THE KOFUN PERIOD (ca. A.D. 250-ca. 600) KOFUN = old tomb of earth mounds. The mounds contained large stone burial chambers. Shaped like keyholes. Surrounded by moats. By the late Kofun period, the distinctive burial chambers, originally used by the ruling elite, also were built for commoners. The most notable is Daisen-kofun, designated as the tomb of Emperor Nintoku. This is the biggest funeral ground in the world.

hipped-gabled roof of ceramic tiles. PALACES AND SHRINES Asuka Architecture the oldest surviving wooden buildings in the world :the Hōryū-ji – as the private temple of Crown Prince Shotoku. The Kondo (Golden Hall), in the style of Chinese worship halls, is a two-story structure of post-and-beam construction, capped by an irimoya, or. hipped-gabled roof of ceramic tiles. - The five-storey pagoda, also constructed around 700. It was built by carpenters from Paekche, a kingdom in southwest Korea. consists of 41 independent buildings; the most important ones, the main worship hall, or Kondo (Golden Hall), and Goju-no-to (Five-story Pagoda), stand in the center of an open area surrounded by a roofed cloister. irimoya, hipped-gabled roof of ceramic tiles