ARCHITECTURAL SPACE COMPOSITION COMPARED WITH THE PICTURESQUE SPACE DEPICTED IN LANGUAGE AS DELINEATED IN 'KUSAMAKURA' WRITTEN BY SOSEKI

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to study KUSAMAKURA written by Soseki and thus find out the meaning of descriptive space as described by the author, and also to find out what architectural composition is connoted in the text. Through the text KUSAMAKURA, Soseki described his own inner consciousness using linguistic description and then developed this into spatial relationship. Picturesque space depicted in language was divided into four kinds of description. Also, the arrangement of materials for spatial composition was classified as three styles of layer composition. It was noted that the whole descriptive space depicted in language started as plane surface and ended in three dimensions. This method of composition was used in the definition of description to outline the descriptive space. Therefore, it could be defined that KUSAMAKURA composed plastic space from literary picture and architectural concept or thought was latent in it.