Architecture
- Historical overview, from early shrines and temples to castles and modern trends.
- http://web-japan.org/museum/arch.html

The Traditional Japanese House
- Details the elements of a traditional Japanese house, and the Japanese attitude toward aesthetics, balance, harmony, economy and beauty.
- http://www.japanlinks.ch/traditional_japanese_house/

Japanese Architecture in Kansai
- Structures such as temples, castles, tea rooms and their component elements.
- http://www.kippo.or.jp/culture_e/build.htm

Response of Traditional Wooden Japanese Construction
- Shows the weaknesses in traditional Japanese wooden homes in the face of earthquakes.
- http://nisee.berkeley.edu/kobe/tobriner.html

Jaspanese Country Style (Minka-Ichiku)
- Information on preserving and converting traditional Japanese farm houses (minka) for modern living. Contains additional material related to Yoshihiro Takishita's book "Japanese Country Style" and the houses he has built.
- http://www.minka-ichiku.com/

The World Heritage Shirakawa-go
- Shirakawa Commerce and Industry Society provides a visitor guide to the village noted for its traditional Gassho style houses.
- http://www.vill.shirakawa.gifu.jp/e/

Historic Architecture in Kyoto
- Photographs, basic historical facts and visitor info on the notable historic buildings of Kyoto.
- http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/org/orion/eng/hstj/histj.html

Chiiori Project
- Preserving old thatched roof houses in rural Japan. For people concerned with saving and preserving the kayabuki houses that are being lost at an alarming rate.
- http://www.chiiori.org

Shoin Architecture
- Illustrated discussion of the development of this Muromachi period style. Well organized.
- http://www.columbia.edu/itc/ealac/V3613/shoin/mainpage.htm

Visual Arts: Architecture
- Article discussing the impact of traditional concepts on modern Japanese architects.
- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+jp0119)

The Japanese House
- Analysis of traditional Japanese domestic architecture as being based on long standing attitudes towards ideas of harmony. B&W illustrations on separate pages.
- http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/410JapHouseTxE1.html

Tondabayashi "The Sugiyama Family's Old House"
- Edo period home of a wealthy sake brewer.
- http://www.kiis.or.jp/kansaida/tondabayashi/tondabayashi04-e.html