This book compares the island housing styles of Jeju, Kyushu, Ryukyu (Okinawa), and Taiwan, all of which fall under the East China Sea cultural sphere. This book also examines the architectural styles and cultural exchange of the East China Sea coast and the southern islands.

This book examines Jeju’s unique family and housing structure; various Kyushu homes that depended on the environment; and the multicultural aspect of architectural style in Ryukyu, an intermediary trading post between China and Japan. This book tracks the spread of southern culture through Taiwan (the southernmost island in the East China cultural sphere), and shows how numerous southern characteristics remain to this day. Native Taiwanese architecture exhibits diverse characteristics depending on tribes and the natural setting. 

This book examines housing from the perspective of southern culture transmitted via maritime routes. It illuminates the background from which traditional Korean architecture arose.