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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
gakusho 楽所 ✓

Also called gakuya 楽屋 or gakudokoro 楽所. A small, simple, open building, like a roofed platform at some…

Architecture, Shrines
gion-zukuri 祇園造

Also called *yasaka-zukuri 八坂造. The style of the main shrine building *…

Architecture, Shrines
gonden 権殿

Also *kariden 仮殿, karidono; utsushidono 移殿. A temporary…

Architecture, Shrines
gongen-zukuri 権現造

Also called ishinoma-zukuri 石の間造, *yatsumune-zukuri 八棟造, and…

Architecture, Shrines
jichinsai 地鎮祭

Also called chinjisai 鎮地祭; jisai 地祭, jiiwai 地祝, tsuchimatsuri 土祭 or tokoshizume no…

Architecture, Shrines
jinja kenchiku 神社建築

Lit. shrine architecture. The architecture associated with Shinto shrines, including all the shrine buildings, shaden…

Architecture, Shrines
jinja 神社 ✓

A generic name for a Shinto shrine. Before World War Two shrines were classified into five categorize: first rank, …

Architecture, Shrines

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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