Japanese architecture

A work in progress…some categories may overlap

Japanese architectural styles and forms (in rough chronological order):

Castles
長屋（ながや）nagaya – tenement house / traditional urban dwelling, a form of collective housing 集合住宅の; may also be referred to as ‘town house’ タウンハウス
gassho-zukuri 合掌造り (steep, thatched roof; example: Shirakawago)
Machiya 町屋 (商家) – merchant house
Kanban kenchiku (‘billboard architecture’)
Kura (倉 or 蔵)
Meiji
西洋館seiyoukan (せいようかん): Western pavillion style / Western-style building (book)
- 洋館 Western-style house yokan
- 洋風建築 Western-style architecture yofu kenchiku
Taisho
‘Modern’ 近代建築
Art deco
Imperial crown style 帝冠様式 (teikan yoshiki) (see example)
モダンな文化住宅 Modern cultural house (mentioned)
文化住宅 Bunka jūtaku ‘Cultural housing’
和洋折衷住宅 “Japanese-Western eclecticism” (wayōsetchū): this term applies to art as well; in context of architecture, it refers to structures exhibiting a mix of Western and Japanese elements
近畿の集合住宅としての文化住宅 “Cultural housing as apartment complex in Kinki”
Danchi 団地 and public housing estates
metabolism architecture
‘Mansion’
Apaato / Apartment
Rag / Tattered Apartment ボロアパート / ボロボロアパート
Sloped-roof buildings of 5-10 stories
Luxury apartment

Posts about specific works:

Architecture Museums and sites:

Tokyo area

Japan Open-Air Folk House Museum (Kawasaki City)
Edo-Tokyo Open-Air Architectural Museum (building example: Tokiwadai Photo Studio, 1937)
Kawagoe 川越
Kofu City: architectural reproductions on Koshu Yume Kouji street 甲州夢小路 , such as Kofu time bell 甲府時の鐘 (Twitter)
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum 東京都庭園美術館: Art Deco building; reminiscent of Taishō era, but completed in early Shōwa

Outside Tokyo