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maidono 舞殿 ✓

Also read maiden. Also kaguradono, kaguraden 神楽殿 or kagura 神楽. Lit. "dance hall."…

Architecture, Shrines
massha 末社

One or many small subsidiary Shinto shrines belonging to a main shrine. If the buildings are located within the precincts of…

Architecture, Shrines
mihashira torii 三柱鳥居

Also read mitsubashira torii or called sankakutorii 三角鳥居. A gate-like structure *…

Architecture, Shrines
miho-zukuri 美保造 ✓

A style of architecture found at Miho Jinja 美保神社 in Shimane Prefecture. Two shrine buildings in the taisha style *…

Architecture, Shrines
mikeden 御饌殿

Also pronounced mikedono. A daily offering hall at a shrine. The most important example is in the northeast corner…

Architecture, Shrines
mikoshiyadori 神輿舎 ✓

Also written 神輿宿. Also mikoshigura 神輿倉, or shin'yoko 神輿庫. A storehouse for a portable shrine *…

Architecture, Shrines
mikuri 御厨

Also pronounced mikuriya. A building or kitchen where food and drink are prepared to offer to the gods. For…

Architecture, Shrines
misedana-zukuri 見世棚造 ✓

Also written 店棚造. Also dashimise-zukuri 出し店造. A very small shrine building, one bay wide, within the precincts of a…

Architecture, Shrines
mitarashi 御手洗 ✓

A place to one side of the approach to a Shinto shrine where visitors perform purification rites, including rinsing the…

Architecture, Shrines
mitosai 御戸祭

One of the ceremonies performed at the time of shrine construction when the doors of the main shrine building are hung. At…

Architecture, Shrines
miwa torii 三輪鳥居 ✓

Also called mitsutorii 三鳥居 or sankō torii 三光鳥居. An entrance gate to a Shinto shrine comprised of three…

Architecture, Shrines
mizugaki 瑞垣 ✓

Also written 籬垣, 水垣. A fence. Originally, mizugaki referred to a fence composed of trees surrounding a forest or…

Architecture, Shrines
mokedono 儲殿

A temporary building for housing the deity at Ise Jingū 伊勢神宮, during the Heian and Kamakura periods. During the rebuilding…

Architecture, Shrines
mukō-zukuri 向造

Also pronounced mukai-zukuri. A style used for the main building *honden…

Architecture, Shrines
myōjin torii 明神鳥居 ✓

A pillared gate-like entrance to a Shinto shrine, developed around the 9th century. The most common type of shrine entrance…

Architecture, Shrines

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JAANUS is the on-line Dictionary of Japanese Architectural and Art Historical Terminology compiled by Dr. Mary Neighbour Parent.

Originally built by the Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation, it is now hosted and maintained by the Media Center for Art History at Columbia University