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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
ichi no mon 一の門

The first or main gate of a castle. At Matsuyamajō 松山城 in Ehime Prefecture, the gate plan was square *…

Architecture, Gates, Castles
ikuwamon 的門

A gate at Heijō palace, Heijōkyū 平城宮 (8th century), in Nara that no longer exists but is mentioned in Shoku Nihongi…

Architecture, Gates
inukimon 鋳抜門 ✓

Also called okusha karamon 奥社唐門. A gate with cast bronze doors or a gate that is entirely made of bronze. …

Architecture, Gates
Ishikawamon 石川門

A gate at Kanazawajō 金沢城 (1788) in Ishikawa Prefecture. It is an excellent example of the square *…

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