ABSTRACT
The superior persons consider that Japanese architecture has no claim to be regarded as art. Now Japanese architecture is only wood, but though only wood, as regards its majestic beauty, seemliness, and adaptability to the purposes for which it is intended, it stands unique. In Japanese architecture no brick or stone is used unless it is for foundations. The restriction to wood material has not prevented the Japanese architects of the past raising stupendous structures which in beauty of adornment and durability have long been the admiration of the Western world. Western influences have reigned supreme Japanese architecture is not only dead but buried. Korea appears to have influenced Japanese architecture, just as it has Japanese art of various kinds. Korean architecture, of course, was not original; it was based on that of China, which in its turn came from Burmah and that again probably from India.
