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daiden 大殿

Also daiyūden 大雄殿.

1 A synonym for main hall *hondō…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
daikōdō 大講堂 ✓

Lit. large lecture hall. The lecture hall at Hōryūji 法隆寺 in Nara is the most famous and oldest extant daikōdō. The…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
daishidō 大師堂 ✓

Lit. great master hall. Daishidō are temple buildings particularly important to the Shingon 真言 sect, established by…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
daitō 大塔 ✓

Lit. Large pagoda. A 2-storied pagoda. A large pagoda of the *tahōtō 多宝塔 type,…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
daiyū hōden 大雄宝殿 ✓

Also called daiyūden 大雄殿 or *daiden 大殿. Lit. great leader's treasure…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
Denpōdō 伝法堂 ✓

A lecture hall at Hōryūji Tōin 法隆寺東院 (Hōryūji East Compound), dating from about the mid-8th century, the time when the East…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
dotō 土塔

Also called tsuchi-no-tō 土の塔 or dantō 段塔. Lit. earthen pagoda. Dantō means stepped pagoda. A…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
ōbaku kenchiku 黄檗建築

Architecture introduced at temples of the Ōbaku 黄檗 sect, in the Edo period. This sect is one of the three Zen 禅 sects. The…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
Ōkakudai 黄鶴台

A sukiya style *sukiya-zukuri 数寄屋造 bathhouse, yokushitsu…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
oku-no-in 奥の院

A structure named for its location behind the main hall of a Buddhist temple or Shinto shrine. Sometimes it is a…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
Onrindō 園林堂

A small, 2 × 2 1/2 bay private Buddhist hall (1685?) at Katsura Rikyū 桂離宮, Kyoto. The hall has a tiled roof *…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
ōyuya 大湯屋 ✓

Also called yuya 湯屋, yokushitsu 浴室, onshitsu 温室. A bathhouse. Traditionally, a separate…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures

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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