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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
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
ōgaki 大垣

Lit. "big fence." Large, continuous fences in distinction to short screen fences *…

Architecture, Gardens
onari-niwa 御成庭

Lit. "a visitor's garden." A garden at an aristocratic dwelling, located at the entrance for royalty, shogun and noblemen.…

Architecture, Gardens
oriido-no-kagenoki 下り井戸の影の樹

Lit. "spiral well with shade tree." A tree planted near a spiral well *oriido 下り井戸 so that it…

Architecture, Gardens
oriido 下り井戸

Lit. "descending well." A deep well. It is also called spiral well rasei 螺井, or snail well maimai ido…

Architecture, Gardens
oshibuchi 押縁

Lit. "pushing frame." The horizontal bars to which the vertical slats *tateko…

Architecture, Gardens
ōtsugaki 大津垣

Also called yarai 矢来, yaraigaki 矢来垣, chōsengaki 朝鮮垣, and chōsen yarai 朝鮮矢来…

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