| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| chasengaki 茶筅垣 | ✓ | Lit. tea whisk fence. A type of side fence *sodegaki 袖垣 in which… |
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| chichibu ao-ishi 秩父青石 | Lit. Chichibu blue stone. A type of *ao-ishi 青石, blue stone, from… |
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| chirin 地輪 | 1 The base of a lantern. Also dairin 台輪. 2 The base of a five-storied… |
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| 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… |
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| 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,… |
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| chisen shūyūshiki teien 池泉舟遊式庭園 | Lit. boating pond style. A type of pond-stroll garden *chisen kaiyūshiki… |
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| 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… |
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| 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,… |
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| chūdai 中台 | The middle base of a lantern *tōrō 灯籠 upon which rests the flame holder and… |
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| chūshinseki 中心石 | Lit. center stone(s). A single stone or stone arrangement *ishigumi 石組,… |
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| yaegaki 八重垣 | Lit. "eightfold fence." A type of double-screen sleeve fence *sodegaki 袖垣 in… |
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| yakuboku 役木 | Also read yakugi. The allocation of shrubbery in a garden, particularly applied to trees which set the mood of a… |
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| yakueda 役枝 | Lit. "roles of branches." The branches of a flower or tree that are given a name based on their "role" in the structure of… |
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| yama-ishi 山石 | Lit. "mountain stone." A generic name for stones found or quarried in the mountains. Unlike sea stones *… |
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| yamato-e shiki teien 大和絵式庭園 | Lit. "gardens in the style of Japanese painting." Also called sakuteikiryū 作庭記流 (gardens in the lineage of the… |
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| yamatobei 大和塀 | ✓ | A fence made of widths of bleached bamboo spaced about 45 cm apart and held in place by bark. This type of fence is used in… |
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| yarimizu 遣水 | ✓ | Lit. "water course." An archaic term for a shallow, curving garden stream. The term, found in the 11th-century garden manual… |
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| yatsu 八つ | Lit. "the character eight 八 yatsu." The practice of propping three or four posts around a newly replanted tree. The… |
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| yobikogata chōzubachi 呼子形手水鉢 | Lit. "whistle shape." A type of water basin *chōzubachi 手水鉢 which resembles… |
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| yotsumegaki 四目垣 | ✓ | Lit. "four-eyed fence." A generic name for a bamboo lattice fence. The poetic name derives from the quadrant of lozenge… |
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| yumiyaeda 弓矢枝 | Lit. "bow and arrow branches." The arrangement of a tree trunk and branches in which one branch grows up from the trunk then… |
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