| 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… |
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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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| yaegaki 八重垣 | Lit. "eightfold fence." A type of double-screen sleeve fence *sodegaki 袖垣 in… |
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| yakuboku 役木 | Also read yakugi. The allocation of shrubbery in a garden, particularly applied to trees which set the mood of a… |
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| yakueda 役枝 | Lit. "roles of branches." The branches of a flower or tree that are given a name based on their "role" in the structure of… |
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| yama-ishi 山石 | Lit. "mountain stone." A generic name for stones found or quarried in the mountains. Unlike sea stones *… |
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| yamato-e shiki teien 大和絵式庭園 | Lit. "gardens in the style of Japanese painting." Also called sakuteikiryū 作庭記流 (gardens in the lineage of the… |
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| yamatobei 大和塀 | ✓ | A fence made of widths of bleached bamboo spaced about 45 cm apart and held in place by bark. This type of fence is used in… |
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| yarimizu 遣水 | ✓ | Lit. "water course." An archaic term for a shallow, curving garden stream. The term, found in the 11th-century garden manual… |
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| yatsu 八つ | Lit. "the character eight 八 yatsu." The practice of propping three or four posts around a newly replanted tree. The… |
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| yobikogata chōzubachi 呼子形手水鉢 | Lit. "whistle shape." A type of water basin *chōzubachi 手水鉢 which resembles… |
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| yotsumegaki 四目垣 | ✓ | Lit. "four-eyed fence." A generic name for a bamboo lattice fence. The poetic name derives from the quadrant of lozenge… |
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| yumiyaeda 弓矢枝 | Lit. "bow and arrow branches." The arrangement of a tree trunk and branches in which one branch grows up from the trunk then… |
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