| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| 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 | |
| kamadodono 竈殿 | Sometimes also kamamiya 釜宮. Also read hettsuidono. A building with a hearth or cooking stove. Often a stove may be placed… | Architecture, Shrines | |
| kamadono 釜殿 | Also pronounced kanaedono, kamaden. A synonym for *kamaya 釜屋… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| kandachi 神館 | A place for Shinto purification rites, as well as a place for priests to go into seclusion for a set amount of time. |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| karahafu torii 唐破風不鳥居 | ✓ | A unique Shinto gate *torii 鳥居 in Kyoto, called Itsukushima… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| kariden 仮殿 | Also karidono. A temporary shrine building to which a deity is transferred while the main sanctuary *… | Architecture, Shrines | |
| kasagi 笠木 | Also written 葢木 or 衡木; also *kabuki 冠木.
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Architecture, Shrines | |
| kashigidono 炊殿 | Also mikashigidono 御炊殿
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Architecture, Shrines | |
| kashii-zukuri 香椎造 | A style of building used for the sanctuary *honden 本殿, at a… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| kashima torii 鹿島鳥居 | ✓ | Shinmei type pillars *shinmei torii 神明鳥居,… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| kasuga torii 春日鳥居 | ✓ | A shinmei type of shrine gate *shinmeitorii 神明鳥居. The two… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| kasuga-zukuri 春日造 | A style of shrine architecture employed in main sanctuaries *honden … |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| katsuogi 堅魚木 | ✓ | Also written 鰹木, 勝男木, 葛緒木. Also called kasoegi 斗木. Wooden billets placed atop and at right angle to a roof ridge,… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| keidaisha 境内社 | A subsidiary Shinto shrine located within the precincts of the main shrine. |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| keigaisha 境外社 | A subsidiary Shinto shrine located outside the precincts of the main shrine. It may be near the precinct boundaries or at a… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| kibitsu-zukuri 吉備津造 | ✓ | Also kibi-zukuri 吉備造 and *hiyoku irimoya-zukuri 比翼入母屋造. A… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| kō-ita 甲板 | A long thick horizontal board placed at the apex of a roof as a cover to protect the uppermost ridge. The board is used… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| kuroki torii 黒木鳥居 | The simplest type of Shinto gate *torii 鳥居 belonging to the … |
Architecture, Shrines |
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