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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
nagare-zukuri 流造 ✓

Also nagare hafu-zukuri 流破風造. A widely used style of main sanctuary *…

Architecture, Shrines
nagatoko 長床

A room at Kumano Jinja 熊野神社, in Fukushima Prefecture, which is similar to a worshipper's hall *…

Architecture, Shrines
Naikūgen torii 内宮源鳥居

Small entrance-gates at Yoshida Jinja 吉田神社 in Kyoto. They are located in front of two small shrines behind the octagonal…

Architecture, Shrines
nainaijin 内内陣

1 A miniature shrine within the sanctuary of a Shinto shrine.

2 The innermost…

Architecture, Shrines
nakayama torii 中山鳥居

Also called banshi torii 伴氏鳥居. A stone entrance-gate to a Shinto shrine *torii…

Architecture, Shrines
naoraiden 直会殿

Also read noraidono, gesaiden 解斎殿. A shrine building to which priests retire after performing the Shinto…

Architecture, Shrines
nune torii 奴禰鳥居

An ornamental type of *myōjin torii 明神鳥居, or gate-like entrance a Shinto…

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