shoin

(noun)

A type of audience hall in Japanese architecture that was developed during the Muromachi period; the term originally meant a study and a place for lectures on the sūtra within a temple, but later it came to mean just a drawing room or study.

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Examples of shoin in the following topics:

  • Shoin Rooms

    • A shoin (書, drawing room or study) is a type of audience hall in Japanese architecture that was developed during the Muromachi period.
    • The shoin-zukuri style takes its name from these rooms.
    • In a shoin-zukuri building, the shoin is the room dedicated to the reception of guests.
    • The architecture surrounding and influenced by the shoin quickly developed many other distinguishing features.
    • Discuss the changes in Japanese shoin rooms during the Momoyama Period

  • Zen Dry Rock Gardens

    • It saw the beginning of Noh theater, the Japanese tea ceremony, the shoin style of Japanese architecture, and the zen garden.

  • Japanese Architecture in the Momoyama Period

    • The shoin style, or a style of Japanese residential architecture that forms the basis of today's traditional-style Japanese houses, had its origins within the earlier Muromachi period and continued to be refined during the Momoyama period.