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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
saijō 斎場

1 An area temporarily purified to erect temporary buildings and facilities for performing the *…

Architecture, Shrines
saikan 斎館

Also *kandachi 神館, shinkan 神館.
1 At Ise Jingū…

Architecture, Shrines
sakadono 酒殿 ✓

Also misakedono 御酒殿; the prefix mi 御 is an honorific.
1 A shrine building specific to…

Architecture, Shrines
sanja-zukuri 三社造

Also called sangenyashiro or sangensha 三間社. A type of Shinto shrine. The main building *…

Architecture, Shrines
sannō torii 山王鳥居 ✓

Also called hie torii 日吉鳥居, sōgō torii 総合鳥居, hafu torii 破風鳥居 or gasshō torii 合掌鳥居.…

Architecture, Shrines
sanrōsho 山籠所

Lit. "a place to go into seclusion." A shrine or temple where priests or laymen can retire alone to pray. However, special…

Architecture, Shrines
seihōkei haiden 正方形拝殿

Square worship hall. A type of worship hall at a Shinto shrine. The 3 × 3 bay hall is believed to have been derived from a…

Architecture, Shrines
sengen-zukuri 浅間造

A style of architecture exemplified by the 2-storied worship hall *haiden 拝殿 at…

Architecture, Shrines
senzasai 遷座祭

A festival held for a building that is to be dismantled and rebuilt, or undergo major repairs. Before construction begins,…

Architecture, Shrines
sessha 摂社 ✓

A Shinto shrine, second in rank and size to the main shrine honsha 本社, but having a status higher than the *…

Architecture, Shrines
shake 社家

Also shashike 社司家 or shakeshū 社家衆.

1 A hereditary line of Shinto priests of…

Architecture, Shrines
shamusho 社務所

A group of administrative and sometimes commercial buildings at a Shinto shrine. In ancient times, each shrine was…

Architecture, Shrines
shichimen-zukuri 七面造

A style of Shinto shrine architecture originating in the Edo period, similar to the sengen style *…

Architecture, Shrines
shikinen sengū 式年遷宮

The transfer of a deity, goshintai 御神体, from a permanent building to a temporary one *…

Architecture, Shrines
shimaki 島木

1 The secondary or collateral lintel placed against the underside of the top lintel *…

Architecture, Shrines
shimaki torii 島木鳥居

An expression used to refer to any entrance gate at a Shinto shrine *torii 鳥居…

Architecture, Shrines
shin-no-mihashira 心の御柱

Also called shin-no-hashira 心の柱, imibashira 忌柱 or 斎柱, or shin-no-mihashira 真の御柱. Non-structural,…

Architecture, Shrines
shinkyū 神厩 ✓

A special stable to house the sacred horse offered to a shrine by the imperial family or a nobleman. The most famous is that…

Architecture, Shrines
shinmei torii 神明鳥居 ✓

Also futabashira torii 二柱鳥居. A generic name for a Shinto gate *torii…

Architecture, Shrines
shinmei-zukuri 神明造 ✓

An ancient style of Shinto shrine architecture used especially for the main sanctuary *…

Architecture, Shrines
shinmon 神門 ✓

Lit. "deity gate." Any type of gate found at a shrine, excluding the gate-like entrance to the sacred ground of a Shinto…

Architecture, Shrines
shinpukuden 神服殿

A Shinto shrine building where winter and summer clothing are sewn and offered to the deities. Some scholars believe that…

Architecture, Shrines
shinsenjo 神饌所

Also called gokūsho 供御所 or goryōya 御料屋; also nieden or niedono 贄殿. The place where…

Architecture, Shrines
shiromaruta torii 白丸太鳥居

Also goryō torii 御陵鳥居, shiroki torii 白木鳥居 or *shimaki torii…

Architecture, Shrines
shitakado 下角

1 The lower corners of any beam cut at an angle.

2 The lower corners of the…

Architecture, Shrines
shitennōji torii 四天王寺鳥居

A stone entrance gate *torii 鳥居 of the myōjin type *…

Architecture, Shrines
sōja 総社

Also written 惣社. Also pronounced sōsha or subeyashiro. A shrine that contains many deities, which may…

Architecture, Shrines
sumiyoshi torii 住吉鳥居

A stone gate-like entrance, torii of the myōjin type *myōjin…

Architecture, Shrines
sumiyoshi-zukuri 住吉造

A style of main sanctuary *honden 本殿 in Shinto shrine…

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