Halyna Shevtsova. Ukraine-Japan: wooden architecture. (album).

"An interesting and original approach to the study of the culture of the two very different countries aims to familiarize the Ukrainian reader with the inexhaustible treasury of the world heritage of the philosophic, social, political, and cultural areas of life.

Authors: Halyna Shevtsova, PhD of architecture, photography artist – and Toshio Sakurai, restorer architect, Professor of Kinki University. The book "Ukraine-Japan: Wooden Architecture" is a project focused on the wooden architecture of Japan and Ukraine in the context of the traditional culture, mythology, and religion. The book contains lots of the authors' color photographs of Ukrainian and Japanese buildings (from the origins to the 19^th century) against the background of landscapes."
Trilingual: Ukrainian / Japanese / English.
Type of the edition: hard cover
Format: 210x252 mm
Number of pages: 152, illustrated publication
Publisher: Grani-T, Kyiv
Contents:

- Foreword (Toshio Sakurai)

1. Foreword:

- Origins of wooden architecture

- Traditional rural architecture

- Ukrainian wooden churches

- Wooden Temples of Japan

- Branches of the same tree

2. Photo materials (all comments are in Ukrainian, Japanese, English)