学会図書館では、寄贈を受けた雛形本108冊を所蔵している。それらの発行時期は、最も古いものが元禄13(1700)年であり、最も新しいものは大正3(1914)年の発行のものとなる。基本的には大工が用いたもので、軒廻りの垂木の納め方や木負の垂木割、あるいは、土蔵雛形や数寄屋構造法などの技術書から棚雛形や欄間雛形などのような意匠書に大別される。これらは日本の伝統建築の研究には必須の貴重な資料である。一方、こうした伝統建築とともに明治5年に発行された『増補 西洋家作雛形』をはじめ西洋建築関連の雛形もあり、明治以降の西洋建築の研究にも関係する重要な資料も含まれている。
Hinagata-Bon :
Series of Practical Books for designing architectural patterns and structures in Japanese traditional architecture published from the late Edo Era to the early Taisho Era
The AIJ library keeps 108 practical books for designing traditional patterns or structures of Japanese architecture acquired from a contribution. The earliest published book was issued in 1700 and the latest one in 1914. The contents of these books, which basically used by carpenters, can be classified into two categories ; One is for designing guidelines of various decorative patterns of shelves and transom bars, the other is for technical instructions for manufacturing rafter around eaves in details, arranging extended rafters on ridge beams, or building the structures of clay covered storehouses and Sukiya-style buildings and so on. These books have an invaluable worth for studying Japanese traditional architectures. And moreover, the series do not only contain the contents related to Japanese architecture but also ones for designing traditional patterns or structures of Western architecture among the books additionally published in 1872.
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