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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
daikaiyūshiki teien 大回遊式庭園

Lit. large strolling-style garden. A type of large-scale garden which is enjoyed on foot. Most large strolling gardens…

Architecture, Gardens
daimyō teien 大名庭園

Lit. daimyō garden. The Edo period strolling-style *kaiyūshiki teien…

Architecture, Gardens
daizaseki 台座石

Also *daiza 台座. The pedestal or base beneath a sculpture, pagoda, or lantern.…

Architecture, Gardens
dankarikomi 段刈込

Lit. layered pruning. A basic type of pruning *karikomi 刈込. When used for a…

Architecture, Gardens
dankei 断景

Lit. cutting scenery. The technique of blocking off scenery outside the garden. Most often a large clipped hedge, …

Architecture, Gardens
dobashi 土橋

1 Lit. earthen bridge. An earthen bridge, which is made by leaving an unexcavated section of moat in front…

Architecture, Castles, Gardens
dōbuchi 胴縁

1a.) Furring strips made of thin wood or bamboo that are nailed horizontally to posts to form the base for…

Architecture, Gardens
dōkyōshiki teien 道教式庭園

Lit. Daoist-style gardens. A general term designating gardens which incorporated Chinese Daoist ideas or motifs. The Daoist…

Architecture, Gardens
rigyoseki 鯉魚石 ✓

Lit. "carp stone." A stone placed at the base of a waterfall to symbolize a carp swimming up the waterfall. Good examples…

Architecture, Gardens
Rikyūgaki 利休垣

A fence made of bamboo stakes that alternate with unpeeled wooden stakes. The bamboo and unpeeled stakes have the same…

Architecture, Gardens
rinsen 林泉

Lit. "forest and stream."
The ancient word for garden. Rinsen first appeared in the 720 Nihon shoki…

Architecture, Gardens
ryōanjigaki 龍安寺垣 ✓

A type of bamboo fence used at Ryōanji 龍安寺, a Zen temple in Kyoto. It is characterized by thick split bamboo that cross…

Architecture, Gardens
ryōmengaki 両面垣

Also ryōmegaki 両目垣. An interlocking bamboo fence. Bamboo, about 3 cm in diameter, are cut in half vertically and…

Architecture, Gardens
ryōtei 涼亭

A summer house, arbor or pavilion that provided a cool resting place in a garden.

Architecture, Gardens
ryūchishiki teien 竜池式庭園

Lit. "dragon pond style." A type of garden featuring a sharply curving pond reminiscent of a dragon's serpentine body. Good…

Architecture, Gardens
ryūmonbaku 竜門瀑

Lit. "dragon's gate cascade." One type of cascade *baku 瀑 found in Japanese…

Architecture, Gardens
ryūsui kanshōshiki teien 流水観賞式庭園

Lit. "flowing water appreciation style garden."
A general term used to designate any garden focused around a stream.…

Architecture, Gardens
ryūsuishiki chisen 流水式池泉

Lit. "flowing water style of pond and stream."
A type of water feature in a garden that includes a curving water course.…

Architecture, Gardens

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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