| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| aboshigaki 網干垣 | Lit. hanging net fence. A generic name for a bamboo fence whose surface resembles the diagonal weave of a fishing net. Often… |
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| aioi 相生 | Lit. growing together. The technique of planting two trees so that they grow together. Variations include: the same kind of… |
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| aioibashi 相生橋 | Lit. twin bridges. Side-by-side bridges constructed over a garden stream. Usually one bridge is larger than the other in… |
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| amigaki 網垣 | Lit. wattle fence. A common type of low fence with a framework of whole and split bamboo into which thin boards or reeds are… | Architecture, Gardens | |
| ao-ishi 青石 | Lit. blue stone. A generic name for a blue green stone of chlorite schist much used in gardens from the Muromachi period… |
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| aoshibagaki 青柴垣 | Lit. fresh brushwood fence. A simple type of low fence made out of fresh brushwood. Popular in ancient times, when it was… |
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| ashimotogaki 足下垣 | Lit. footstep fence. A generic term for a fence made alongside a path. It is similar to the *… | Architecture, Gardens | |
| awa-ishi 阿波石 | Lit. sea-foam stone. A type of blue stone *ao-ishi 青石, produced in modern… |
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| rigyoseki 鯉魚石 | ✓ | Lit. "carp stone." A stone placed at the base of a waterfall to symbolize a carp swimming up the waterfall. Good examples… |
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| Rikyūgaki 利休垣 | A fence made of bamboo stakes that alternate with unpeeled wooden stakes. The bamboo and unpeeled stakes have the same… |
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| rinsen 林泉 | Lit. "forest and stream." |
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| ryōanjigaki 龍安寺垣 | ✓ | A type of bamboo fence used at Ryōanji 龍安寺, a Zen temple in Kyoto. It is characterized by thick split bamboo that cross… |
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| ryōmengaki 両面垣 | Also ryōmegaki 両目垣. An interlocking bamboo fence. Bamboo, about 3 cm in diameter, are cut in half vertically and… |
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| ryōtei 涼亭 | A summer house, arbor or pavilion that provided a cool resting place in a garden. |
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| ryūchishiki teien 竜池式庭園 | Lit. "dragon pond style." A type of garden featuring a sharply curving pond reminiscent of a dragon's serpentine body. Good… |
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| ryūmonbaku 竜門瀑 | Lit. "dragon's gate cascade." One type of cascade *baku 瀑 found in Japanese… |
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| ryūsui kanshōshiki teien 流水観賞式庭園 | Lit. "flowing water appreciation style garden." |
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| ryūsuishiki chisen 流水式池泉 | Lit. "flowing water style of pond and stream." |
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