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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
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
nanako 魚々子 ✓

Also written 魚子, 斜子. Lit. "fish-roe."
1 A pattern of small dots thought to resemble fish-roe, and…

Art History, Architecture, Gardens, Crafts
nanakogaki 魚子垣

Also urokogaki 鱗垣, gonomegaki 互の目垣. A fence made from semi-circular pieces of bamboo or metal. Bamboo…

Architecture, Gardens
narihira sodegaki 業平袖垣

Lit. "Narihira sleeve fence." A common type of rustic see-though sleeve fence, sukashi sodegaki 透袖垣. The frame,…

Architecture, Gardens
nebukawa-ishi 根府川石

Lit. "Nebukawa stone." A type of andesite found near Nebukawa 根府川 Village near Odawara 小田原 in modern Kanagawa Prefecture.…

Architecture, Gardens
niban-ishi 二番石

Lit. "second stone."

1 A stone placed outside a house, particularly a *…

Architecture, Gardens
nozokibashi 覗橋

Lit. "peeping bridge." A type of arched, wooden garden bridge that ends abruptly in the water just after beginning its…

Architecture, Gardens
nozokigaki 覗垣

Lit. "peeping fence." A type of *sodegaki 袖垣 with one or more…

Architecture, Gardens
numazugaki 沼津垣 ✓

Also called ajirogaki 網代垣 or ajiro takegaki 網代竹垣. A type of wickerwork fence, especially popular in…

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