| 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. |
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 | |
| maidono 舞殿 | ✓ | Also read maiden. Also kaguradono, kaguraden 神楽殿 or kagura 神楽. Lit. "dance hall."… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| massha 末社 | One or many small subsidiary Shinto shrines belonging to a main shrine. If the buildings are located within the precincts of… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| mihashira torii 三柱鳥居 | Also read mitsubashira torii or called sankakutorii 三角鳥居. A gate-like structure *… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| miho-zukuri 美保造 | ✓ | A style of architecture found at Miho Jinja 美保神社 in Shimane Prefecture. Two shrine buildings in the taisha style *… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| mikeden 御饌殿 | Also pronounced mikedono. A daily offering hall at a shrine. The most important example is in the northeast corner… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| mikoshiyadori 神輿舎 | ✓ | Also written 神輿宿. Also mikoshigura 神輿倉, or shin'yoko 神輿庫. A storehouse for a portable shrine *… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| mikuri 御厨 | Also pronounced mikuriya. A building or kitchen where food and drink are prepared to offer to the gods. For… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| misedana-zukuri 見世棚造 | ✓ | Also written 店棚造. Also dashimise-zukuri 出し店造. A very small shrine building, one bay wide, within the precincts of a… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| mitarashi 御手洗 | ✓ | A place to one side of the approach to a Shinto shrine where visitors perform purification rites, including rinsing the… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| mitosai 御戸祭 | One of the ceremonies performed at the time of shrine construction when the doors of the main shrine building are hung. At… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| miwa torii 三輪鳥居 | ✓ | Also called mitsutorii 三鳥居 or sankō torii 三光鳥居. An entrance gate to a Shinto shrine comprised of three… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| mizugaki 瑞垣 | ✓ | Also written 籬垣, 水垣. A fence. Originally, mizugaki referred to a fence composed of trees surrounding a forest or… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| mokedono 儲殿 | A temporary building for housing the deity at Ise Jingū 伊勢神宮, during the Heian and Kamakura periods. During the rebuilding… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| mukō-zukuri 向造 | Also pronounced mukai-zukuri. A style used for the main building *honden… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| myōjin torii 明神鳥居 | ✓ | A pillared gate-like entrance to a Shinto shrine, developed around the 9th century. The most common type of shrine entrance… |
Architecture, Shrines |
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