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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
agetsuchimon 上土門 ✓

Also written 揚土門; also called azuchimon 安土門. A gate with a mud roof. To support the roof the gate has two pillars…

Architecture, Gates
akazumon 不開門

Also called akazu-no-mon 不開門 or ikanmon 偉鑒門. Lit. closed gate. Legend has it that after Emperor Kazan 花山 (…

Architecture, Gates
chokushimon 勅使門

A gate originally used only by the Emperor. Primarily found at Buddhist temples, it is usually a four-legged gate *…

Architecture, Gates
chūmon 中門

1 Middle gate. The second or inner gate on the north-south axis of a temple compound in the ancient period…

Architecture, Gates

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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