| 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 | |
| maidono 舞殿 | ✓ | Also read maiden. Also kaguradono, kaguraden 神楽殿 or kagura 神楽. Lit. "dance hall."… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| massha 末社 | One or many small subsidiary Shinto shrines belonging to a main shrine. If the buildings are located within the precincts of… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| mihashira torii 三柱鳥居 | Also read mitsubashira torii or called sankakutorii 三角鳥居. A gate-like structure *… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| miho-zukuri 美保造 | ✓ | A style of architecture found at Miho Jinja 美保神社 in Shimane Prefecture. Two shrine buildings in the taisha style *… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| mikeden 御饌殿 | Also pronounced mikedono. A daily offering hall at a shrine. The most important example is in the northeast corner… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| mikoshiyadori 神輿舎 | ✓ | Also written 神輿宿. Also mikoshigura 神輿倉, or shin'yoko 神輿庫. A storehouse for a portable shrine *… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| mikuri 御厨 | Also pronounced mikuriya. A building or kitchen where food and drink are prepared to offer to the gods. For… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| misedana-zukuri 見世棚造 | ✓ | Also written 店棚造. Also dashimise-zukuri 出し店造. A very small shrine building, one bay wide, within the precincts of a… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| mitarashi 御手洗 | ✓ | A place to one side of the approach to a Shinto shrine where visitors perform purification rites, including rinsing the… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| mitosai 御戸祭 | One of the ceremonies performed at the time of shrine construction when the doors of the main shrine building are hung. At… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| miwa torii 三輪鳥居 | ✓ | Also called mitsutorii 三鳥居 or sankō torii 三光鳥居. An entrance gate to a Shinto shrine comprised of three… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| mizugaki 瑞垣 | ✓ | Also written 籬垣, 水垣. A fence. Originally, mizugaki referred to a fence composed of trees surrounding a forest or… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| mokedono 儲殿 | A temporary building for housing the deity at Ise Jingū 伊勢神宮, during the Heian and Kamakura periods. During the rebuilding… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| mukō-zukuri 向造 | Also pronounced mukai-zukuri. A style used for the main building *honden… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| myōjin torii 明神鳥居 | ✓ | A pillared gate-like entrance to a Shinto shrine, developed around the 9th century. The most common type of shrine entrance… |
Architecture, Shrines |
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