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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
enchi 園池

Also written 苑池. Lit. garden pond. The large ponds in gardens of the Nara, Heian, and Kamakura periods. Specifically, the…

Architecture, Gardens
engetsukyō 円月橋 ✓

Lit. full moon bridge. A semi-circular garden bridge that, when reflected in the water below, presents the circular…

Architecture, Gardens
ensaki chōzubachi 縁先手水鉢 ✓

Lit. end of the veranda water basin. A type of tall, cylindrical wash basin *…

Architecture, Gardens
enseishukugata chōzubachi 円星宿形手水鉢

Lit. round star type. A variety of *ensaki chōzubachi 縁先手水鉢, end of…

Architecture, Gardens
enshūgaki 遠州垣

Lit. Enshū gate. A type of projecting fence *sodegaki 袖垣 featuring upper…

Architecture, Gardens
ensōgaki 円窓垣

Lit. circular window fence. A common type of projecting fence *sodegaki 袖垣…

Architecture, Gardens
ensōhishi sodegaki 円窓菱袖垣

Lit. circular window lattice sleeve fence. A type of narrow screen fence *sodegaki…

Architecture, Gardens
enzanseki 遠山石

Lit. distant mountain stone. The stone in an arrangement placed above or behind artificial mountains *…

Architecture, Gardens
gan'uchi 雁打

Lit. flying geese. The poetic name given to a type of zig-zag arrangement of stepping stones *…

Architecture, Gardens
gejōseki 下乗席

Lit. dismounting stone. A type of keystone *yakui-shi 役石, stepped on when…

Architecture, Gardens
genjibei 源氏塀 ✓

Genji 源氏 fence is a board fence with posts set at intervals and a base runner set between the foundation stones of the posts…

Architecture, Gardens
genkaibashi 厳海橋

Lit. Genkai bridge. A type of bridge used to span deep garden streams or ravines. It is constructed with a triangular timber…

Architecture, Gardens
gentanryū teien 玄丹流庭園

Lit. Gentan lineage garden. A style of late Edo period garden in the Izumo 出雲 district, Shimane Prefecture, associated with…

Architecture, Gardens
ginkakujigata chōzubachi 銀閣寺形手水鉢 ✓

Lit. Ginkakuji type. One kind of water basin *chōzubachi 手水鉢, based on the…

Architecture, Gardens
gogyōseki 五行石

Lit. five elements of stones. A name for the five types of functional and decorative stones *…

Architecture, Gardens
gogyōsetsu 五行説

Lit. theory of five elements. A basic principle of Chinese geomancy and cosmology adapted in Japanese garden design. The…

Architecture, Gardens
goren'uchi 五連打

Lit. row of five stones. One arrangement of stepping stones *tobi-ishi 飛石. It…

Architecture, Gardens
gorota-ishi 呉呂太石

Lit. rolling stones. Small round stones about 10 cm in diameter used for the drainage areas around the stooping basin *…

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