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baijō 梅杖

Lit. plum post. A wooden post used to support the heavy but structurally weak branches of old plum trees.

Architecture, Gardens
baku 瀑

A cascade. A type of garden waterfall in which the water falls at a 90 degree angle. One common type of baku is the…

Architecture, Gardens
banchi ばん池

Also called hanchi 畔池 written with the character ばん池, to indicate a 'halved pond.' Lit. levee pond. A type of…

Architecture, Gardens
biseki 尾石

Lit. tail stone. A stone in a rock garden that represents the tail of a tortoise *…

Architecture, Gardens
bugakuryū teien 武学流庭園

Lit. garden of the Bugaku lineage. A style of Japanese garden developed in the middle of the Edo period by Ōishi Bugaku 大石武学…

Architecture, Gardens
fujigata chōzubachi 富士形手水鉢 ✓

Lit. Fuji shape. A common type of *shizenseki chōzubachi 自然石手水鉢,…

Architecture, Gardens
funagata chōzubachi 舟形手水鉢 ✓

Lit. boat shape. A type of functional or decorative water basin, *chōzubachi…

Architecture, Gardens
funatsukiishi 舟着石

Lit. A boat-landing stone. A large, flat stone used as a kind of dock in large pond gardens where boating took place. Even…

Architecture, Gardens
fusen 布泉

An abbreviation of fusen no chōzubachi 布泉の手水鉢. A type of water basin, *…

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