Chinese style decoration

...There are many changes in the style of shrine buildings and the detailed carvings, and the Japanese style, which adopted Zen Buddhist styles with finer woodwork and more decoration, became the basis for the luxurious style of the following Momoyama period. In terms of housing, shinden-zukuri gradually had more partitions and more complex floor plans, but with the introduction of Chinese goods such as paintings and crafts from the Song and Yuan dynasties, Chinese decorations developed to embellish them. These were displayed in independent reception spaces (kaisho), which gradually began to be set up from the Muromachi period, and toko, tana, and tsukeshoin were created as zashiki decorations. ...

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "Chinese decoration" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…とくに神社社殿形式や，細部の彫刻などに変化あるものが多く，禅宗様化して木割りが細かくなり，装飾を多くとり入れた和様は，つぎの桃山時代の豪華な様式を生みだす基盤となった。住宅の面でも，寝殿造はしだいに間仕切りがふえ，複雑な平面をもつようになってきていたが，宋･元の絵画，工芸品など唐物（からもの）の伝来により，これを飾りたてる唐様飾が発達した。これらは室町時代からしだいに設けられるようになった独立の接客空間(会所)に飾られ，座敷飾としての床，棚，付書院が発生した。…

※「唐様飾」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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