| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| Sakuteiki 作庭記 | Lit. "Treatise on Garden Making." The oldest and most revered Japanese text on garden design, it was probably… |
Architecture, Gardens, Document | |
| sandandaki 三段滝 | Lit. "three-stage waterfall." One common type of garden waterfall. Through the arrangement of earth and rocks, the waterfall… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| sanzon iwagumi 三尊石組 | Lit. "Buddhist triad stone arrangement." The grouping of one large stone with two smaller flanking stones that lean toward… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| sasagaki 笹垣 | Lit. "bamboo grass fence." A living fence or hedge made of low-growing, bamboo grass called kumazasa 熊笹, and… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| sawatobi 沢飛 | ✓ | Lit. "marsh crossing." A path made of stepping stones *tobi-ishi 飛石 placed in… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| sekkaigan 石灰岩 | Limestone. A type of rock rarely used in gardens because of its soft and transient nature, although it was employed as a… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| senryokugan 閃緑岩 | Lit. "glittering green stone." A type of stone similar to granite but containing black granules. Often containing small… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| sensui 泉水 | Lit. "spring water." Originally the term referred to spring water running through a garden. In Kyoto, a number of… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shakkei 借景 | Lit. "borrowed scenery." The method of incorporating a distant vista into the composition of a garden. A river, the ocean,… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shibagaki 柴垣 | ✓ | Also read shibakaki. A very old type of brushwood fencing, originally called fushigaki 布斯垣. Many… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| shibaonkōgata chōzubachi 司馬温公形手水鉢 | Lit. "Sima Yungong type." One style of natural stone water basin *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shibayama chōzubachi 芝山手水鉢 | Lit. "brushwood mountain." A type of rustic water basin *chōzubachi… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shichigosanshiki teien 七五三式庭園 | Also called shichigosan ishigumi 七五三石組 Lit. "seven-five-three-style garden." The arrangement of 15 stones or pruned… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shiden-zukuri teien 寝殿造庭園 | Lit. "shinden-style garden." The quintessential Heian period garden that was built in the central courtyard of… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shiguregaki 時雨垣 | Lit. "drizzle fence." A type of fence in which bunches of bamboo and bush clover are secured by the top bar of a fence so as… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shihōbutsu chōzubachi 四方仏手水鉢 | Lit. "Buddhas of the four directions water basin." A type of water basin made from reused objects *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shikyakuseki-no-kumikata 枝脚石の組み方 | Lit. "arrangement of branch and leg stones." One way to arrange the five types of trump stones known as *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shin-no-yotsumegaki 真の四目垣 | A garden fence with penetrating ties *nuki 貫 that run horizontally from one… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shinamoji 品文字 | A grouping of three stones, carefully balanced to resemble the character shina 品. The stone arrangement is… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shinsenboku 神仙木 | Lit. "tree of immortals." A tree associated with Mt. Penglai *Hōraisan 蓬莱山,… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shirakawa-ishi 白川石 | Lit. "shirakawa stone." A type of granite quarried from the Shirakawa 白川 area north of Kyoto. Soft and easily… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shitennō-seki 四天王石 | Lit. "four guardian kings stones." Four stones placed in each corner of a garden. The stones serve the same apotropaic… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shitennōju 四天王樹 | Lit. "four guardian king trees." A poetic title referring to the maiden-hair or gingko ichō 銀杏, camphor … |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shizenseki chōzubachi 自然石手水鉢 | Lit. "natural stone water basins." A generic name for a water basin *chōzubachi… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shizenseki ishibashi 自然石石橋 | Lit. "natural stone bridge." A type of stone bridge *ishibashi 石橋 made from… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shoin niwa 書院庭 | The garden which faces or surrounds the *shoin 書院. No special features are used in shoin… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shōjōseki 清浄石 | Also read seijōseki, called nozoki-ishi 覗石 or kiyome-ishi きよめ石. Lit. "pure stone." |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shokusai 植栽 | Lit. "plants." The various plants, trees, bushes, and flowers placed in a garden. The term also is used to refer to gardens… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shōshinboku 正真木 | Meaning genuine tree. The term was coined in the middle Edo period to refer to the dominant or master tree in a garden.… |
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| shōtoku-no-taki 生得の滝 | Originally, a waterfall in nature. With the rise of dry waterfalls *karetaki… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shuboku 主木 | Lit. "master tree." The tree planted on the top, front of a garden hill *tsukiyama… |
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| shugoboku 守護木 | Lit. "guardian tree." One name given to the main tree planted in the middle of a flat garden hiraniwa 平庭. The term… |
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| shukukei 縮景 | Lit. "shrunken scenery." The imitation of a famous scenic spot meisho 名所 in a garden through the creation of a… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shumisenshiki iwagumi 須弥山式石組 | Lit. "Mt. Sumeru type stone arrangement." A grouping of stones which expresses Mt. Sumeru *Shumisen… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| shuseki 主石 | Lit. "main stone." The stone at the center of a stone arrangement *ishigumi… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| sodegaki 袖垣 | ✓ | Lit. "sleeve fence." A narrow fence which may serve to screen off some garden element or may be completely ornamental.… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| sodegata chōzubachi 袖形手水鉢 | Lit. "sleeve shape." A type of water basin *chōzubachi 手水鉢 in… |
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| soe-ishi 添石 | Lit. "accompanying stones." Stones arranged near to the main stone *shuseki 主石 of a stone… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| sōekigata tōrō 宗易形灯籠 | A type of six-sided lantern. The canopy is thin with half-circled bracken-shoot patterns *… |
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| sōhengaki 宗へん垣 | Lit. "Sōhen fence." A simple type of open fence named after tea master Yamada Sōhen 山田宗へん (1627-1708). Thin bamboo slats are… |
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| soribashi 反橋 | Also pronounced sorihashi. Lit. "curved bridge." A general term for an arched bridge. Soribashi include… |
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| suiboku sansuigashiki teien 水墨山水画式庭園 | Lit. "garden in the style of ink monochrome landscape painting." A modern term used for Chinese style dry gardens *… |
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| suirin 水輪 | Lit. "water ring." The spherical second story of the five-ring pagoda *gorintō… |
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| sukashigaki 透垣 | Lit. "see-through fence." A generic term for any kind of fence through which one can see. This type of open fence is used as… |
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