Gekkamon 月華門

1　A gate in the corridor connecting the two halls Kyōshoden 校書殿 and Anpukuden 安福殿 in the Imperial Palace at Heiankyō 平安京.

2　Also written 月花門 (found in *Shōmei 匠明). A gate following the same tradition as in one above, located in the west side of the roofed semi-enclosed corridor that surrounds the Shishinden 紫宸殿 of the emperor's palace of Kyoto Gosho 京都御所. It has a tiled, gabled roof and is painted with red lead pigment. It faces a matching gate called *Nikkamon 日華門 on the east side. The same format was used for Imperial Palace gates in the medieval and early-modern periods. Both the Gekkamon and Nikkamon open inward toward the palace buildings.

3　Written 月下門. A courtyard gate at the temple of Tōfukuji 東福寺, Kyoto. Said to have been donated by Emperor Kameyama 亀山 (1259-74), this is a four-pillar gate *shikyakumon 四脚門 with a gabled cypress-bark roof.