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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
uguisugaki 鴬垣

Lit. "bush warbler fence." A common type of rustic sleeve fence *sodegaki…

Architecture, Gardens
ukedai 受台

Also *chūdai 中台. Middle base.

Architecture, Gardens
umi-ishi 海石

Lit. "sea stone." A generic name for stones found in the ocean or along the seashore. Because sea stones contain salt, and…

Architecture, Gardens
urokojiki 鱗敷

Lit. "scale pavement."
One style of *shiki-ishi 敷石 made of…

Architecture, Gardens
ushiro-uke 後受

The placement of primary and secondary rocks in a group, so that the secondary ones are diagonally right and left and to the…

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