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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
zakanshiki teien 座観式庭園

Lit. "seated appreciation style garden." A modern term designating gardens meant to be seen or "appreciated" from a fixed…

Architecture, Gardens
zazen-ishi 座禅石

Lit. "stone for seated meditation." A large, flat-topped stone which is used for, or thought to be appropriate for…

Architecture, Gardens
Zen'inshiki no niwa 禅院式の庭

Lit. "Zen 禅 temple style gardens." A modern term designating the various types of gardens associated with Zen sect temples…

Architecture, Gardens
zenigata mizubachi 銭形水鉢

Lit. "coin shape water basin." A type of round water basins *chōzubachi 手水鉢…

Architecture, Gardens
zenkishiki karesansui 前期式枯山水

Lit. "early style dry landscape." The Heian period arrangement of stones in areas with neither a pond nor stream. The 11th-…

Architecture, Gardens
zentei 前庭

Lit. "front garden." A general term referring to the garden in front of a building. In contrast to the main garden which is…

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