Architecture of Java

 Java architecture is the distinctive building forms designed by the Javanese for various functions. Among them are or Joglo Javanese houses a very unique shape. Shape of the building is strongly influenced by the Javanese Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam. Java architecture also adapt the shape of the building of Chinese, Dutch and Arabic. Since the first of the Javanese are good at making architecture it is proved by the discovery of a number of monumental temples in Java such as Borobudur and Prambanan. Even Java-Yogyakarta and East Java in Indonesia was recorded as the highest region has temples with more than 50 temples. In Java, there are also many mosques that are Hindu and Islamic acculturation as the Great Mosque of Demak.

 Stupa of Borobudur Temple

Majapahit Terracotta

Majapahit terracotta clay is crafting Majapahit era. Terracotta is a character art during the Majapahit culture is very well known and commonly found. Results of this art form of statues, tubs, pots, flower vases, decorative roofs, tile, wall wells (prostitute), jug, or jar. At the Majapahit era of knowledge about manufacturing goods from baked clay with the principle of making forms or models of clay, dried in the sun, and burned it in the fire.

Jung Ship

Results of other cultures is a Java technology that ships Jung a traditional sailing boat used by the Javanese kingdom era ago. Borobudur temple reliefs contained in the depiction of the ship Jung. Jung hull is formed by attaching the planks to keel boats. Then be connected to the frame without the use of wooden pegs, bolts, or iron nails. Tip of the bow and stern of the ship-shaped taper. The vessel is equipped with two steering rods resembling paddles, as well as rectangular screen. Ship Jung called the Borobudur ships have played a major role in all the affairs of the Javanese in the field of shipping, for hundreds of hundreds of years before the 13th century. By the early 8th century, the role of Borobudur ship ship ship shifted by a larger Java, with three or four screens as Jung. Portuguese sailors called Juncos, Italian sailors call zonchi. Jung term was first used in the travel records Odrico monk, Jonhan de Marignolli, and Ibn Battuta who sailed to the archipelago, early 14th-century ship them praise the greatness of Java as the ruler of the sea giant of Southeast Asia. Jung-making technology is not much different from the Borobudur ship construction; entire hull was built without using nails.