Japanese Temples and Tea-Houses 1956 Werner Blaser ~ Japan (Kyoto) Architecture ~ Zen Buddhist temples, shrines, tea ceremony schools

Title: Japanese Temples and Tea-Houses

Author: Werner Blaser

Description: After a trip to Japan in 1953, the architect and designer Werner Blaser (1924-2019) published this groundbreaking book on classical Japanese architecture. His studies of Kyoto's 17th and 18th-century wooden buildings document minimalist, grid-based structures with striking black-and-white photographs, some color images, and numerous line drawings. Blaser's text provides a penetrating study into the historical, spiritual and social elements that inspired these classic examples of Japanese architecture.

From the collection of Seattle landscape architect Elizabeth Brazeau (1910-1980), wife of artist Wendell Brazeau.

Boards in khaki cloth with brown lettering on spine and front cover. Previous owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper, else interior is unmarked. Bit of soiling to endpapers; scattered foxing to text pages. Thoroughly illustrated with black-and-white and a few color photographs along with several diagrammed floor plans. Dust jacket shows some scuffing and minor soiling on spine and rear panel; not price clipped ($12.75); in an archival mylar sleeve. 156 pages. 12 x 9.5 inches.


Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good

Publisher: F. W. Dodge Corporation
Place: New York
Year: 1956

Keywords: Japan, architecture, Japanese architecture, Kyoto, Zen Buddhist temples, tea ceremony, shrines,