| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 timber… |
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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 with… |
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| ginkakujigata chōzubachi 銀閣寺形手水鉢 | ✓ | Lit. Ginkakuji type. One kind of water basin *chōzubachi 手水鉢, based on the… |
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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. It… |
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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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| maguro-ishi 真黒石 | ✓ | Lit. "deep black stones." A generic name for black stones found in the Nachi 那智 area of Wakayama prefecture and the Kamo 鴨… |
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| mamemaki-ishi 豆撒石 | Lit. "thrown bean stones." A poetic name for a seemingly random arrangement of stepping stones *… |
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| mazegaki 交垣 | Lit. "mixed hedge." One type of *ikegaki 生垣 (living fence) in which two or… |
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| mesekigaki 目狭垣 | A type of bamboo-ear gate takehogaki 竹穂垣 used for projecting fences *sodegaki… |
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| migaki-ishi 磨石 | Lit. "polished stone." A vague term which means any stone which is highly finished or polished, but may also refer to the… |
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| mikage-ishi 御影石 | A generic name for granite kakōgan 花崗岩, the term originally meant granite quarried in the Mikage 御影 district in the… |
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| mino kenninjigaki 簑建仁寺垣 | Also written 蓑建仁寺垣. Also called takehogaki 竹穂垣. A variation of the bamboo fence *… |
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| misugaki 御簾垣 | Also sudaregaki 簾垣. A bamboo fence made of various kinds of slender bamboo strips that are set horizontally and… |
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| mitatemono chōzubachi 見立物手水鉢 | Lit. "re-used-object water basins." A type of water basin *chōzubachi… |
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| mizuana 水穴 | Lit. "water hole." The hollowed-out space on the top face of a water basin *… |
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| mizubune 水船 | Lit. "water boat." A type of large boat-shaped stone used for water basins *mitatemono… |
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| modorieda 戻り枝 | Lit. "returning branch." A tree branch which, naturally or by training, turns abruptly downward. The dramatic nature of the… |
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| mokukasan 木仮山 | A somewhat ambiguous term meaning landscape. Because the curving root of a tree, moku 木, was thought to resemble… |
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| mondai-ishi 問台石 | Lit. "gate foundation stones." A large, flat stepping stone *yaku-ishi 役石… |
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| monkaburi 門冠 | Lit. "gate crowning." A tree planted by a garden gate so that its branches extend over the gate. In some cases the branches… |
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| mori 杜 | Woods. The sacred grove of trees planted in front of a shrine by a landscape designer. |
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| Musōryū chitei 夢窓流治庭 | Lit. "Corrective on Gardens of the Musō Lineage." A late Edo period treatise on landscape gardening. According to the… |
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