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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
taisha-zukuri 大社造 ✓

Also called ōyashiro-zukuri. The oldest style of shrine architecture. Its small scale is thought to resemble that…

Architecture, Shrines
tasukizumi 襷墨 ✓

A diagonal line. A word applied to structural members used in the modular system kikujutsu 規矩術. Specifically, this…

Architecture, Shrines
tatehaiden 縦拝殿 ✓

A type of worship hall *haiden 拝殿 which is attached to the main…

Architecture, Shrines
teinaisha 邸内社

Also dainaisha 第内社. A shrine within the estate or premises teinai 邸内 of a nobleman. The mansion, …

Architecture, Shrines
tenchi kongen-zukuri 天地根元造

1 A prehistoric pit dwelling *tateana jūkyo …

Architecture, Shrines
torii 鳥居

Also written 鳥栖; 鶏栖. Lit. "bird perch." At one time, torii were called uefukazu-no-mikado or…

Architecture, Shrines
toriimon 鳥居門

Lit. "bird perch gate." A shrine gate with a board fence attached to the outer part of each of the two pillars. A *…

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