의양풍(擬洋風) 건축: 일본의 전통 목수가 근대를 맞이한 한 태도 = Quasi-Western Style Architecture: A Traditional Japanese Carpenter’s Approach to Modern Times

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Japan actively introduced Western architecture while promoting modernization in the late 19th century. At the time, the engineers who actually built Western-style buildings were traditional Japanese carpenters. They learned Western architectural techniques in a short period of time and combined them with traditional Japanese wooden architectural styles and techniques to create a new style known as quasi-Western style architecture. The primary reason Japanese carpenters could create and apply Western-style architecture in such a short period of time was that the Western architecture introduced at that time was colonial-style wooden architecture. In Japan, which has a long tradition of wooden architecture, excellent building wood was produced in abundance, and afforestation technology had developed well before the medieval times. Based on a deep understanding of wood, traditional Japanese carpenters systematically developed and accumulated techniques to build wooden structures of various sizes and complex shapes up to the modern era. During the Edo period, various architectural technical texts were published, and a system was established for carpenters to win construction orders through technological competition. In modern times, just as Japan had adopted Korean and Chinese architecture in ancient and medieval times, it actively accepted and learned Western architecture according to its needs and made it uniquely Japanese. Based on this historical background, traditional Japanese carpenters were able to learn the construction technology of Western architecture in a short period of time and create a new style of quasi-Western style architecture.