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chasengaki 茶筅垣 ✓

Lit. tea whisk fence. A type of side fence *sodegaki 袖垣 in which…

Architecture, Gardens
chichibu ao-ishi 秩父青石

Lit. Chichibu blue stone. A type of *ao-ishi 青石, blue stone, from…

Architecture, Gardens
chirin 地輪

1 The base of a lantern. Also dairin 台輪.

2 The base of a five-storied…

Architecture, Gardens
chisen kaiyūshiki teien 池泉回遊式庭園

Lit. pond stroll style garden. A type of pond garden in which one walks around the pond. The most common kind of large…

Architecture, Gardens
chisen kanshōshiki teien 池泉観賞式庭園 ✓

Lit. pond appreciation style. A type of small garden in which the pond is viewed from a veranda or from inside a room,…

Architecture, Gardens
chisen shūyūshiki teien 池泉舟遊式庭園

Lit. boating pond style. A type of pond-stroll garden *chisen kaiyūshiki…

Architecture, Gardens
chōshizenshugi 超自然主義

Lit. hyper-naturalism. The idea of basing a garden, or a single element in it, on nature, but exaggerating the natural…

Architecture, Gardens
chōzubachi 手水鉢

Lit. hand water bowl. A water basin used to rinse the hands or as a decorative element in gardens. Usually made of stone,…

Architecture, Gardens
chūdai 中台

The middle base of a lantern *tōrō 灯籠 upon which rests the flame holder and…

Architecture, Gardens
chūshinseki 中心石

Lit. center stone(s). A single stone or stone arrangement *ishigumi 石組,…

Architecture, Gardens
gan'uchi 雁打

Lit. flying geese. The poetic name given to a type of zig-zag arrangement of stepping stones *…

Architecture, Gardens
gejōseki 下乗席

Lit. dismounting stone. A type of keystone *yakui-shi 役石, stepped on when…

Architecture, Gardens
genjibei 源氏塀 ✓

Genji 源氏 fence is a board fence with posts set at intervals and a base runner set between the foundation stones of the posts…

Architecture, Gardens
genkaibashi 厳海橋

Lit. Genkai bridge. A type of bridge used to span deep garden streams or ravines. It is constructed with a triangular timber…

Architecture, Gardens
gentanryū teien 玄丹流庭園

Lit. Gentan lineage garden. A style of late Edo period garden in the Izumo 出雲 district, Shimane Prefecture, associated with…

Architecture, Gardens
ginkakujigata chōzubachi 銀閣寺形手水鉢 ✓

Lit. Ginkakuji type. One kind of water basin *chōzubachi 手水鉢, based on the…

Architecture, Gardens
gogyōseki 五行石

Lit. five elements of stones. A name for the five types of functional and decorative stones *…

Architecture, Gardens
gogyōsetsu 五行説

Lit. theory of five elements. A basic principle of Chinese geomancy and cosmology adapted in Japanese garden design. The…

Architecture, Gardens
goren'uchi 五連打

Lit. row of five stones. One arrangement of stepping stones *tobi-ishi 飛石. It…

Architecture, Gardens
gorota-ishi 呉呂太石

Lit. rolling stones. Small round stones about 10 cm in diameter used for the drainage areas around the stooping 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