Keywords
Architecture
Shrines
Also mikashigidono 御炊殿
1 The special kitchen at Shinto shrines where rice to be offered to the gods is cooked. All other food served to the gods is raw. Today very few shrines, except at the Ise Jingū 伊勢神宮, have special buildings for preparing food to be served to the gods. See *mikeden 御饌殿, *kamadodono 竃殿.
2 The place where rice was cooked for the nobility in a shinden style mansion *shinden-zukuri 寝殿造 in the Heian period.