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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
usa torii 宇佐鳥居

A wooden, gate-like entrance *torii 鳥居 of the myōjin 明神…

Architecture, Shrines
ushiro-nagare 後流

The flowing curve of the rear slope of a gable roof in the flowing style *nagare-…

Architecture, Shrines
uwakado 上角

1 The upper corners of any beam cut at an angle.

2 The upper corners of the…

Architecture, Shrines
uzubashira 珍柱 ✓

Also written 宇豆柱. The pillars at center, front, and rear of the main prayer hall *honden…

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