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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
uguisugaki 鴬垣

Lit. "bush warbler fence." A common type of rustic sleeve fence *sodegaki…

Architecture, Gardens
ukedai 受台

Also *chūdai 中台. Middle base.

Architecture, Gardens
umi-ishi 海石

Lit. "sea stone." A generic name for stones found in the ocean or along the seashore. Because sea stones contain salt, and…

Architecture, Gardens
urokojiki 鱗敷

Lit. "scale pavement."
One style of *shiki-ishi 敷石 made of…

Architecture, Gardens
ushiro-uke 後受

The placement of primary and secondary rocks in a group, so that the secondary ones are diagonally right and left and to the…

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