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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
zakanshiki teien 座観式庭園

Lit. "seated appreciation style garden." A modern term designating gardens meant to be seen or "appreciated" from a fixed…

Architecture, Gardens
zazen-ishi 座禅石

Lit. "stone for seated meditation." A large, flat-topped stone which is used for, or thought to be appropriate for…

Architecture, Gardens
Zen'inshiki no niwa 禅院式の庭

Lit. "Zen 禅 temple style gardens." A modern term designating the various types of gardens associated with Zen sect temples…

Architecture, Gardens
zenigata mizubachi 銭形水鉢

Lit. "coin shape water basin." A type of round water basins *chōzubachi 手水鉢…

Architecture, Gardens
zenkishiki karesansui 前期式枯山水

Lit. "early style dry landscape." The Heian period arrangement of stones in areas with neither a pond nor stream. The 11th-…

Architecture, Gardens
zentei 前庭

Lit. "front garden." A general term referring to the garden in front of a building. In contrast to the main garden which is…

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