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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
chakutōden 着到殿 ✓

Also written 著到殿 or tōchakuden 到着殿. The designated place for the imperial messenger, chokushi 勅使, and…

Architecture, Shrines
chigi 千木

Also written 鎮木, 知木, 知疑. Also higi 氷木.

1 Forked finials, which are found on most Shinto…

Architecture, Shrines, Folk Dwellings
chinjusha 鎮守社 ✓

Also read chinju no yashiro. It is sometimes called chinjudō 鎮守堂; dojidō 土地堂; …

Architecture, Shrines
chō-no-ya 庁の屋

Also written 庁舎 and read chō-no-ya or chōsha. A building in which priests gathered to discuss ceremonies…

Architecture, Shrines
chokushiden 勅使殿 ✓

The chokushiden is the place where an envoy, chokushi 勅使, stays when he is sent to a shrine to offer…

Architecture, Shrines
chūden 中殿

The space *ai-no-ma 相の間 between the sanctuary *…

Architecture, Shrines
chūjin 中陣

A term used in shrine architecture: a middle area between the *honden 本殿, *…

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