Samurai Mansion Gate,Temples, Pagodas

[John Wagenseil]

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This is a gate, I think it was a gate to a samurai estate before it was re-purposed after the Meiji restoration, when the samurai class lost its privileges.
I found this model on another site, but some of the links to model PDFs were broken, and the page had never been visited by the Wayback Machine when all the links were intact .
I started searching and found the page above which has the complete model as jpg images.
Click on each link, then click view image, and save the source image for each page of the gate paper model.


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This is the original site, it has a lot of other nice models: pagodas, the samurai gate, traditional school buildings, roof tiles, temples a temple gate, an ancient helmet.
The samurai gate model and the Jingoji Temple Paper Craft have a broken link but the other models are complete and make a visit to the page worthwhile. There is also a lot of other interesting material here which can be accessed with Google translate or BabbleFish.


When/If I recover from sorting through pages of flashing neon kanji, hidden links and pop ups to more than a few NSFW Japanese BSDM sites, mind bendingly wierd pages of machine translated japanese, and page after page of ultra kwai images, I will try to hunt down the complete version of the broken temple model. Or maybe someone will beat me to it.

[Don Boose]

I appreciate your diligent investigation of Japanese sites, John. You come up with some treasures.

Don

[John Wagenseil]

Page 11 of the Jingoji Temple Paper Craft is a broken link.
However, it still might be possible to build the model.
I looked at the instructions, and while my 3D visualization ability is not the greatest, it seems to me that page 10 (which is available) and page 11 (which is missing) are mirror images. It that is really the case, then all that is needed to to do to make the model is to make another copy of page ten and flip it using a PDF editor.

Making a mirror image of a PDF is a lot easier than searching the Japanese internet in hopes the missing page will turn up somewhere.

[gregh]

Thank You John !!! Your ability to slueth the japanese web sites is amazing.