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ARCHITECTURE:
TRADITIONAL AND MODERN
BUDDHIST TEMPLES AND SHINTO SHRINES
In
his online consideration of Sacred
Places, Christopher
L.C.E. Witcombe (Professor of Art History at Sweet Brier College)
includes a discussion of the Grand (Shinto) Shrine at Ise (and provides
a list of useful links to other informative web sites).
Japanese
Temple Geometry is the subject of a 1998 report by Tony
Rothman, a featured article from Scientific
American.
Temples, shrines and castles also are discussed on the beautifully designed web pages devoted to Architecture and Gardens at the Virtual Museum of Traditional Japanese Arts sponsored by the Japan Information Network.
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ARCHITECTURE:
TRADITIONAL AND MODERN
created, designed and maintained
by Lee
A. Makela (l.makela@csuohio.edu)
as part of a project begun in February 1995