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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
Daijōkyū 大嘗宮

Also daijōgū. A temporary palace of unstripped timber, untreated grasses and reeds, and bamboo, used for the Grand…

Architecture, Shrines
Daijōsai 大嘗祭

Also read ōnihe matsuri, ōnie matsuri, ōname matsuri, and ōmube matsuri. The Great Food…

Architecture, Shrines
daikoku-bashira 大黒柱 ✓

Also written 大極柱, shin-no-hashira 心の柱, yaku-bashira 役柱, and naka-bashira 中柱.

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Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Shrines
dashi 山車

Also called yamaboko 山鉾, hikiyama 引山, maiguruma 舞車, odoriguruma 踊車, and yatai…

Architecture, Shrines
dashimise-zukuri 出店造

Small shrine buildings in an early Kasuga style, *kasuga-zukuri 春日造, that…

Architecture, Shrines
kamadodono 竈殿 Sometimes also kamamiya 釜宮. Also read hettsuidono. A building with a hearth or cooking stove. Often a stove may be placed… Architecture, Shrines
kamadono 釜殿

Also pronounced kanaedono, kamaden. A synonym for *kamaya 釜屋…

Architecture, Shrines
kandachi 神館 A place for Shinto purification rites, as well as a place for priests to go into seclusion for a set amount of time.
Architecture, Shrines
karahafu torii 唐破風不鳥居 ✓

A unique Shinto gate *torii 鳥居 in Kyoto, called Itsukushima…

Architecture, Shrines
kariden 仮殿 Also karidono. A temporary shrine building to which a deity is transferred while the main sanctuary *… Architecture, Shrines
kasagi 笠木

Also written 葢木 or 衡木; also *kabuki 冠木.



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Architecture, Shrines
kashigidono 炊殿

Also mikashigidono 御炊殿



1 The special kitchen at Shinto shrines where rice to be…

Architecture, Shrines
kashii-zukuri 香椎造

A style of building used for the sanctuary *honden 本殿, at a…

Architecture, Shrines
kashima torii 鹿島鳥居 ✓

Shinmei type pillars *shinmei torii 神明鳥居,…

Architecture, Shrines
kasuga torii 春日鳥居 ✓

A shinmei type of shrine gate *shinmeitorii 神明鳥居. The two…

Architecture, Shrines
kasuga-zukuri 春日造

A style of shrine architecture employed in main sanctuaries *honden …

Architecture, Shrines
katsuogi 堅魚木 ✓

Also written 鰹木, 勝男木, 葛緒木. Also called kasoegi 斗木. Wooden billets placed atop and at right angle to a roof ridge,…

Architecture, Shrines
keidaisha 境内社

A subsidiary Shinto shrine located within the precincts of the main shrine.

Architecture, Shrines
keigaisha 境外社

A subsidiary Shinto shrine located outside the precincts of the main shrine. It may be near the precinct boundaries or at a…

Architecture, Shrines
kibitsu-zukuri 吉備津造 ✓

Also kibi-zukuri 吉備造 and *hiyoku irimoya-zukuri 比翼入母屋造. A…

Architecture, Shrines
kō-ita 甲板

A long thick horizontal board placed at the apex of a roof as a cover to protect the uppermost ridge. The board is used…

Architecture, Shrines
kuroki torii 黒木鳥居

The simplest type of Shinto gate *torii 鳥居 belonging to the …

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