EAST ASIA PT2

• Table Dolmen

  
• Korea is a peninsula on the north-east seaboard of Asia
• Ch'omsongdae Observatory

  
• Wolchongsa Pagoda

  
• Tongdaemun or East Gate
• Namdaemun or South Gate

  
• Japan is composed of a chain of islands considerably further from the east coast of Asia than is Britain from the European mainland. The four main islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu run from north-east to southwest in that order and innumerable tiny islands add variety to their coastlines
• Komainu - pairs of lionlike figures placed in front of the gates or main halls of many shrines
• Shinto shrines are the crystallization of the Japanese homage to tradition
• tamagaki - simple surrounding fence
• torii - entrance gate of a shrine precinct, and consists primarily of two pillars and horizontal beams
• Shimmei torri

  
• Myojin torii

  
• Yakushiji three storeyed pagoda

  
• pagoda - most sacred area where a reliquary for sacred objects
• kairo - semi-enclosed roofed corridor
• kodo - lecture hall
• Wayo Style - standard style and method of temple up to the end of the Heian period
• Hondo - are five, seven or nine bays wide and almost the same number of bays deep
• Kiyomizudera hondo - expresses the grandiose taste of the Edo period.

  
• The shinden is in the center with corridors connecting it to the east and west annexes, and a ‘chumonro’ extends south from one or both of the annexes.
• Shishinden - An example of a building in Shinden style

  
• tatami - straw matted floor covering
• Himeji Castle - represents the highest achievement in Japanese castle architecture.

  
• Nijo Castle