Abstract

The Japanese pavilion named Ho-o-Den was set up in the exposition in Chicago, 1893 and modeled on the holy edifice, Ho-o-Do (Phoenix Hall) erected about 1052 at Uji near Kyoto. It consisted of three buildings showing each different artistic periods to represent the history of Japanese art. Though it didn't represent the essence of Japanese architecture and art ideally because of political intention and restriction on program, it showed Japanese beauty of her historial architecture and art in the limitation as a pavilion in the exposition. This paper reports on thp factorys surrournding the form of the Ho-o-Den.

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