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Japanese architecture

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is so concerned with the floor that it might be referred to as an 'architecture of the floor' in opposition to that of the West which is best characterized as an 'architecture of the wall.’

Yoshinobu Ashihara to refer to Japanese traditional building as an 'architecture of the floor' in opposition to that of the West which he describes as an 'architecture of the wall'. (Ashihara, 1983) It is undoubtedly the floor that has dominated traditional Japanese architecture while the wall has enjoyed the equivalent dominance in Europe. Yoshinobu Ashihara

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