Traditional Tectonic Culture in Japan

"Japanese culture, in which weaving and binding emerge from archaic time as the primary element in a number of agrarian renewal and ground-breaking rites that still survive today throughout the country"

K. Frampton Studies in Tectonic Culture

"...the archaic Japanese world was symbolically structured through ephemeral tectonic material, knotted grasses or rice straw ropes known as shime-nawa, literally "bound ropes", or more elaborately through bound pillars of bamboo and reed called hashira..."

K. Frampton Studies in Tectonic Culture

"Shinto prototectonic devices exercised a decisive influence on the evolution of Japanese sacred and domestic architecture through its various incarnations"

K. Frampton Studies in Tectonic Culture