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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
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…

Architecture, Gardens
aioi 相生

Lit. growing together. The technique of planting two trees so that they grow together. Variations include: the same kind of…

Architecture, Gardens
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…

Architecture, Gardens
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…

Architecture, Gardens
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…

Architecture, Gardens
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…

Architecture, Gardens
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…

Architecture, Gardens
Rikyūgaki 利休垣

A fence made of bamboo stakes that alternate with unpeeled wooden stakes. The bamboo and unpeeled stakes have the same…

Architecture, Gardens
rinsen 林泉

Lit. "forest and stream."
The ancient word for garden. Rinsen first appeared in the 720 Nihon shoki…

Architecture, Gardens
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…

Architecture, Gardens
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…

Architecture, Gardens
ryōtei 涼亭

A summer house, arbor or pavilion that provided a cool resting place in a garden.

Architecture, Gardens
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…

Architecture, Gardens
ryūmonbaku 竜門瀑

Lit. "dragon's gate cascade." One type of cascade *baku 瀑 found in Japanese…

Architecture, Gardens
ryūsui kanshōshiki teien 流水観賞式庭園

Lit. "flowing water appreciation style garden."
A general term used to designate any garden focused around a stream.…

Architecture, Gardens
ryūsuishiki chisen 流水式池泉

Lit. "flowing water style of pond and stream."
A type of water feature in a garden that includes a curving water course.…

Architecture, Gardens

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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