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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
ōji-zukuri 王子造

Also written 皇子造. A style of construction used for a Shinto shrine sanctuary *honden…

Architecture, Shrines
omiya 御宮 A term of respect for a shrine. Architecture, Shrines
otabisho shinden 御旅所神殿

Also *otabisho 御旅所. Otabi 御旅 (revered journey); sho 所 (space); shinden…

Architecture, Shrines
otabisho 御旅所

Also otabi-no-miya 御旅宮, otabi 御旅, tabisho 旅所, mikoshiyadori 神輿舎.
A palanquin-like…

Architecture, Shrines
ōtori-zukuri 大鳥造

A simple style of main shrine building *honden 本殿, with gable roof *…

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