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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
uguisugaki 鴬垣

Lit. "bush warbler fence." A common type of rustic sleeve fence *sodegaki…

Architecture, Gardens
ukedai 受台

Also *chūdai 中台. Middle base.

Architecture, Gardens
umi-ishi 海石

Lit. "sea stone." A generic name for stones found in the ocean or along the seashore. Because sea stones contain salt, and…

Architecture, Gardens
urokojiki 鱗敷

Lit. "scale pavement."
One style of *shiki-ishi 敷石 made of…

Architecture, Gardens
ushiro-uke 後受

The placement of primary and secondary rocks in a group, so that the secondary ones are diagonally right and left and to the…

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