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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
fujigata chōzubachi 富士形手水鉢 ✓

Lit. Fuji shape. A common type of *shizenseki chōzubachi 自然石手水鉢,…

Architecture, Gardens
funagata chōzubachi 舟形手水鉢 ✓

Lit. boat shape. A type of functional or decorative water basin, *chōzubachi…

Architecture, Gardens
funatsukiishi 舟着石

Lit. A boat-landing stone. A large, flat stone used as a kind of dock in large pond gardens where boating took place. Even…

Architecture, Gardens
fusen 布泉

An abbreviation of fusen no chōzubachi 布泉の手水鉢. A type of water basin, *…

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