The governors and generals of past dynasties all showed their pursuit of reason and feeling, and gradually completed some architectural styles with distinctive national characteristics. Wood structure is still the main form of Japanese houses, which is characterized by the fact that the bottom of the whole building is off the ground, and the columns and beams are tenoned with each other, making the whole house a whole. Covered with bark of Pinus thunbergii, thatch, tiles and other materials. The internal structure of the whole house is a sliding door on the floor. If you remove a few sliding doors, it will be a whole room, or it can be divided into several rooms.
Courtyard buildings in Japan are mainly built in temples or palaces, and their contents are also very rich. Its main feature is that landscape plants listen to nature and include the scenery outside the garden. This is called borrowing scenery. After 14 and 15 centuries, arid mountains and rivers gradually became popular, and the ground was paved with white sand to express some natural scenery neatly, conceptually and symbolically. Teahouse architecture is a small hut that combines many architectural factors such as folk custom, garden and religion, which embodies people's pursuit of tranquility, stability and return to nature.
The wall building is a kind of architectural way for the samurai class and local governors to defend and show off their strength. This kind of architecture is exquisite, luxurious and applicable, and it is a work of art that fully embodies the spiritual realm of local rulers at that time. The city walls are carefully designed, with pavilions, pavilions and eaves scattered at random, compact and powerful shapes. T-shaped watchtower, armory, conference hall, study room, bedroom, amusement park and garden are all available, which are very ingenious and exquisite, and have become the unique style of Japanese architecture. The most famous are Himeji City (Egret City) in Hyogo Prefecture and Iwan City in Shiga Prefecture.
At the end of A.D. 19, due to the spread of western European culture in Japan, traditional Japanese sculptures were exposed to western carving techniques. Kúun Takamura, a sculptor who inherited the traditional production skills of Edo Buddhists, showed a keen absorption of western carving techniques. His woodcarving work "Old Ape" broke through the old stereotype in borrowing momentum, describing details and using materials, which is the starting point for Japanese sculpture to modernize.