| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| gan'uchi 雁打 | Lit. "flying geese." The poetic name given to a type of zig-zag arrangement of stepping stones *… |
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| gejōseki 下乗席 | Lit. "dismounting stone." A type of keystone *yakui-shi 役石, stepped on when… |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| ginkakujigata chōzubachi 銀閣寺形手水鉢 | ✓ | Lit. "Ginkakuji type water basin." One kind of water basin *chōzubachi 手水鉢,… |
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| gogyōseki 五行石 | Lit. "five elements of stones." A name for the five types of functional and decorative stones *… |
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| gogyōsetsu 五行説 | Lit. "theory of five elements." A basic principle of Chinese geomancy and cosmology adapted in Japanese garden design. The… |
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| goren'uchi 五連打 | Lit. "row of five stones." One arrangement of stepping stones *tobi-ishi 飛石.… |
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| 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 *… |
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| hachimae-no-ishigumi 鉢前の石組 | A washstand placed near a veranda or in the corner of an open veranda, shoin zashiki 書院座敷, or in the chief priest's… |
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| haiseki 拝石 | Lit. "worship stone." A type of trump stone *yaku-ishi 役石 from which one can… |
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| hashibasami-ishi 橋挟石 | ✓ | Lit. "bridge-anchoring stones." The stones placed at the four corners of a stone bridge ishibashi 石橋. Also called… |
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| heitenseki 平天石 | Lit. "flat top stone." A name for stones flattened on the top side. Heitenseki may be used to express the wings of… |
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| heri-ishi 縁石 | Also called *katsura-ishi 葛石. Lit. "edging stone." A stone used as a… |
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| higaki 檜垣 | Lit. "Cypress fence." A type of fence in which the bark of the Japanese cypress, hinoki 檜, is braided into a net… |
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| himuroike 氷室池 | Lit. "icehouse pond." A functional type of garden pond used in the winter for cutting ice. In case like the himuroike… |
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| hirabashi 平橋 | A flat bridge made of wood, wood and sods, or stone. |
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| hirahashi 平橋 | Lit. "flat bridge." A simple kind of garden bridge made with flat wooden boards. In its simplest form, a hirahashi… |
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| hishigaki 菱垣 | Lit. "lozenge fence." A type of open fence made with bamboo or other types of wood braided into lozenge shapes. A good… |
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| hokusō sansuigashiki teien 北宋山水画式庭園 | Lit. "gardens in the style of Northern Song landscape painting." A modern term that stresses the compositional similarities… |
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| honmikage 本御影 | Lit. "true mikage 御影." A type of high quality granite, kakōgan 花崗岩 quarried in the Mikage region of the… |
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| hōrai enzanseki 蓬莱遠山石 | Lit. "Penglai distant mountain stone." A technique in which the stone representing Mt. Penglai *… |
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| hōrai gantō 蓬莱岩島 | Lit. "Penglai rock island." The technique of representing Mt. Penglai *Hōraisan 蓬莱山 in… |
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| hōrai teien 蓬莱庭園 | Lit. "Penglai garden." A general term for a garden focused thematically on Mt. Penglai *… |
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| hōrai yōshiki 蓬莱様式 | Lit. "Penglai style." A type of garden in which there presentation of Mt. Penglai *… |
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| hōraibune 蓬莱舟 | ✓ | Also called a boat stone funa-ishi 舟石 or treasure-boat stone takarabune-ishi 宝舟石. Lit. "Penglai boat." A… |
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| hōraiseki 蓬莱石 | Lit. "Penglai stone." A garden stone representing Mt. Penglai *Hōraisan 蓬莱山, the… |
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