Wood Identification of Pagoda in Japan

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会议名称:“2022世界木材日”研讨会暨第四届国际林联(IUFRO)林产品文化研究组讨论会
会议时间:2022年3月22日

报告嘉宾:Misao Yokoyama
嘉宾简介:日本京都大学 研究员


摘要:
Most famous and the oldest pagoda is the five-story pagoda (Gojyunoto)of Horyu-ji temple, it is known that they were originally made of Japanese cypress in the 7th century. And many pagodas in Japan including the five-story, three-story and two-story forms are also made of wood, however, wood species of each pagoda were unknown.
Wood selection varies region, era and architectural style, therefore we investigated some major pagoda, for example, Koyasunoto of Kiyomizu-dera temple, Kyoto, and Gojyunoto of Motoyama-ji temple, Kagawa under their conservation and identified wood species each building members of each floor of pagoda.
By wood identification of each building members, it is clarified they are several wood species are used not only Japanese cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa Endl.)
In this paper, architectural features of these pagoda and their construction and re-construction background from the perspective of wood selection will be reported.

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