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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
banbei 蕃塀 ✓

Also pronounced hanbei. A single, free-standing, short timber fence placed as a guard in front of the north, east,…

Architecture, Shrines
banshin 番神

Also kyakushin 客神, ishin 夷神. Also written 蛮神 banshin. Gods that were thought to have originated…

Architecture, Shrines
betsugū 別宮

Also bessha 別社, edamiya 枝宮, or edayashiro 枝社.

A god is enshrined or venerated as being…

Architecture, Shrines
ōji-zukuri 王子造

Also written 皇子造. A style of construction used for a Shinto shrine sanctuary *honden…

Architecture, Shrines
omiya 御宮 A term of respect for a shrine. Architecture, Shrines
otabisho shinden 御旅所神殿

Also *otabisho 御旅所. Otabi 御旅 (revered journey); sho 所 (space); shinden…

Architecture, Shrines
otabisho 御旅所

Also otabi-no-miya 御旅宮, otabi 御旅, tabisho 旅所, mikoshiyadori 神輿舎.
A palanquin-like…

Architecture, Shrines
ōtori-zukuri 大鳥造

A simple style of main shrine building *honden 本殿, with gable roof *…

Architecture, Shrines

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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