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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
yaegaki 八重垣

Lit. "eightfold fence." A type of double-screen sleeve fence *sodegaki 袖垣 in…

Architecture, Gardens
yakuboku 役木

Also read yakugi. The allocation of shrubbery in a garden, particularly applied to trees which set the mood of a…

Architecture, Gardens
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…

Architecture, Gardens
yama-ishi 山石

Lit. "mountain stone." A generic name for stones found or quarried in the mountains. Unlike sea stones *…

Architecture, Gardens
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…

Architecture, Gardens
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…

Architecture, Gardens
yarimizu 遣水 ✓

Lit. "water course." An archaic term for a shallow, curving garden stream. The term, found in the 11th-century garden manual…

Architecture, Gardens
yatsu 八つ

Lit. "the character eight 八 yatsu." The practice of propping three or four posts around a newly replanted tree. The…

Architecture, Gardens
yobikogata chōzubachi 呼子形手水鉢

Lit. "whistle shape." A type of water basin *chōzubachi 手水鉢 which resembles…

Architecture, Gardens
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…

Architecture, Gardens
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…

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