P. Hoffsummer (ed.);Livre Rare Book
Archive of ca. 60 or more architectural drawings on sheets of various sizes of paper
réf. 11071Brush & ink some in color or heightened in color. Late Edo. A fascinating collection of fine and detailed architectural drawings of the Kyoto Palace several Kyoto temples and mansions. This collection can be divided very roughly into three groups: 1. Palace: The Kyoto Palace burned down many times in its long history and the most recent reconstruction was completed in 1855. About 17 sheets of varying sizes some quite large depict ornamental details; floor plans; details of sliding doors; plans for guard offices at entrances buildings for ladies-in-waiting and entranceways to court offices; ornaments for bathrooms; floor plans of the inner palace including the emperor’s residence seiryÅden 清涼殿 the tutors’ living quarters and teaching rooms the layout of the roof beams for the seiryÅden beam measurements sumigi 隅木 roof styles metalwork designs for shitomi 蔀 traditional shutters or doors another complete floor plan of the seiryÅden with labels for placement for each decorative work of art and a diagram of the placement of the weight-bearing wooden pillars color-coded to support the floors; roof-beam styles; palace outer buildings’ floor plans; a very large hand-colored illustration of a decorative drum to perform gagaku 雅楽; pattern sheet of the drum; and a bundle of seven sheets of various palace buildings some in color. 2. Temples: a drawing of a model of elaborate woodwork; ornamental roof details in color; layout for roof beams; a rubbing of an architectural detail; floor plan of the building containing the Great Buddha of the HÅkÅji temple; detailed measurements of the roof beams of the Rokkaku-do temple; plan for a two-story pagoda sheet measuring 1210 x 760 mm.; the design of an ornamental bottle-shaped strut taiheizuka 大瓶æŸ; and a sheet with actual size drawings of other ornaments. Some have the name of the creator Tanaka Heibei 田中平兵衛 a Kyoto ornamental woodcarver. 3. Miscellaneous: drawings of ornamental aspects of unnamed buildings about 30 sheets of varying sizes. In very good condition. unknown books
