抄録
There are about thirty Buddhist architecture which are supposed to have been built as the eighth century in Japan. Careful and close study of them has been made as to their style or appearance. As to the distribution of bays, especially, it is generally said that measurements of whole number is regarded as the essential factor to decide it. However, it is not clear to me how these architecture were drawn, how these measurements of whole number were given to each bays, how to decide the diameter of columns by means of such a method, and so on. Thus there are some problems which is uncertain and hard to understand their planning. Then, we have found one of ancient module to the distribution of bays in the Kondo (sanctum) and the Gojuto (five-staried pagoda) of the Horyuji West Temple. Earch bays of both are composed of the multiple of the module. Otherwise, we have known, in the Ying Tsao Fa Shih of China in 1100, the module and unit were established to each members, for example, diameter of columns or length of daito (capital) although not clear the relation to the distribution of bays. This study is a research for module and I had tried to make clear the existence of module in the most of the ancient Japanese architecture.
