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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

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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