[keywords]spatial organisation, moya/hisashi, Japanese spatiality
[abstract]
We will try to analyse and grasp a Japanese concept of space, from a traditional spatial organisation system used in the Nara period until the arrival of the shōinzukuri during the Kamakura period, the moya/hisashi, and the expression which allows us to describe it, the kenmenkihō. We shall also see how, despite having abandoned the system, the conception is kept throughout subsequent periods, revealing unconscious forms of spatial representation.