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• Tofuku-ji
  Tôfuku-ji is a major [[Rinzai]] [[Zen]] temple in eastern [[Kyoto]], founded in [[1236]] by the [[Kujo family|Kuj ...gate features elements of ''daibutsuyô'' ("Great Buddha Style") and [[Zen architecture]].<ref>Gallery labels, National Museum of Japanese History.</ref>
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• Yinyuan Longqi
  ...er from China who is credited with introducing the [[Obaku|Ôbaku]] sect of Zen to Japan. ...monks to travel to Japan to help restore or revive the sect of [[Rinzai]] Zen in Japan, which had declined, but he did not initially take the monks up on
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• Saiken-ji
  Saiken-ji is a [[Soto Zen|Sôtô Zen]] Buddhist temple in [[Hamamatsu]], [[Shizuoka prefecture]]. ...o also died while in Japan. A red and gold-colored structure in [[Okinawan architecture|Okinawan style]], complete with a ''[[shisa]]'' on top, was erected in 2004
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• Engaku-ji
  ...]]'' [[Hojo Tokimune|Hôjô Tokimune]], who sought to expand the presence of Zen, the sect to which he devoted himself, and in order to serve as a temple de ...lt 1964), and ''[[hojo (Zen)|hôjô]]'' are said to be model examples of Zen architecture. A pond associated with the ''hôjô'', called Myôkôchi, and containing a
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• Manpuku-ji
  ...rpose. The temple is often cited as the finest example of [[Ming Dynasty]] architecture surviving in Japan.<ref name=jansen55>Marius Jansen, ''China in the Tokugaw ...nce]] at that time, and invited to Japan by a group of Japanese [[Rinzai]] Zen monks, communicating via the [[Chinese in Nagasaki|Chinese community]] asso
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• Nanzen-ji
  ...ranked above the [[Kyoto Five Mountains]] (''Kyoto Gozan''; the five great Zen temples of Kyoto). ...called Zenrinjiden. In [[1291]], Kameyama then converted the villa into a Zen temple; its first head priest was Daimin-kokushi. Many of the temple's buil
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• Nagasaki school
  ...known within the canons of Chinese art history today. Many were merchants, Zen priests, or scholars or physicians who also painted;<ref name=jansen>[[Mari [[Category:Art and Architecture]]
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• Hokan-ji
  Hôkan-ji, also known as Reiô-zan, is a [[Rinzai]] [[Zen]] temple in the Yasaka area of eastern [[Kyoto]], known for its prominent p ...goda is considered a remarkable example of [[Hakuho period|Hakuhô period]] architecture; its square form is six meters wide on each side. Lost to fire and reconstr
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• Gokoku-ji (Tokyo)
  ...its original design, serving as an excellent example of [[Genroku]] period architecture. ...ar style of mid-Tokugawa-period ''hakama-goshi-tsuki jûsô irimoya-zukuri'' architecture. The bell itself, dating to the temple's founding in 1682, was a gift from
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• Ginkaku-ji
  ...ond story houses a statue of the [[bodhisattva]] [[Kannon]], features more Zen architectural elements in its design, and is known as Chôonkaku (潮音閣 ...elongs to the [[Shokoku-ji|Shôkoku-ji]] branch of [[Rinzai]] Zen Buddhism. Zen monks added a rock garden, known as the "sea of silver sand," to the garden
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• Shokoku-ji
  Shôkoku-ji is one of the five leading [[Rinzai]] [[Zen]] temples in [[Kyoto]], and has 13 sub-temples (''[[tatchu|tatchû]]'') on ...dest extant example in Japan of a particular Muromachi period Zen style of architecture. The foundations of some buildings never rebuilt are visible just outside t
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• Tsuen teashop
  ...se relations with the [[Zen]] priest [[Ikkyu|Ikkyû]], and became himself a Zen practitioner and hermit; the two (Tsûen and Ikkyû) are said to have been ...fecture]] as a Cultural Property, and surviving example of ''[[machiya]]'' architecture. Looking at it from the front, the building has deep eaves and a wide entra
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• Zen
  *''Japanese/Chinese'': 禅 ''(zen / chán)'', 禅宗 ''(zen shuu / chánzōng)'' ...n")<ref>Via the Chinese, ''chán''. Francis DK Ching, ''A Global History of Architecture'', Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons (2011), 444.</ref> is one of the most
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• Ninna-ji
  ...seeming Chinese styles of architecture (''karayô'') introduced alongside [[Zen]]. See: "[http://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/deta/w/wayou.htm Wayou]," JAANUS.</ ...asure, as a precious surviving example of ''shishinden'' (imperial palace) architecture. Sculptures of [[Amida]] and of the [[Shitenno|Four Heavenly Kings]] are am
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• Muromachi Period
  ...considerable development and prominence in the Muromachi period, with the Zen painting of [[Sesshu|Sesshû]], [[Shubun|Shûbun]], and [[Josetsu]], all Mu ...ith a number of forms, such as the tearoom itself and ''[[shoin-zukuri]]'' architecture, along with specific developments such as the ''[[chigaidana]]'' shelf and
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• Kamakura period
  ...Echizen province]] is representative of warrior residential/administrative architecture of the time.]] ...mple in Kamakura, a representative example of Kamakura period Zen Buddhist architecture]]
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• Tea culture
  ...the 15th-16th centuries was central to numerous developments in ceramics, architecture, and collecting practices in those periods. ...der culture around tea practice, including aspects of art appreciation and architecture, that are not strictly limited to the so-called "ceremony," and to critique
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• Kinkaku-ji
  ...ngs, while the third floor, constructed in the ''karayô'' style typical of Zen temples, and called Kukkyô-chô, was for Yoshimitsu's personal private use *Ching, Francis D.K. et al. ''A Global History of Architecture''. Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, 2011. p444.
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• Okitsu
  ...overlooking the checkpoint; the temple was reestablished as a [[Rinzai]] [[Zen]] temple in the 1260s. Its main hall today dates to [[1702]]. ...calling it Zagyosô. Today, the Zagyosô has been relocated to the open-air architecture museum [[Meiji Mura]] near [[Nagoya]], but a reconstruction of it has been
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• Chuzan denshin roku
  ...ku-ji]]; descriptions of study, scholarship, and writing in the kingdom; [[Zen]]; and monks' stipends. #Descriptions of customs, homes (architecture), rice and grains, household goods (dishes, [[Ryukyuan lacquerware|lacquerw
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