| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| hakamagoshi 袴腰 | ✓ | 1 A trapezoidal form created on top of the posts that frame the host's entrance *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses, Structures, Buildings |
| hakkaku butsuden 八角仏殿 | An octagonal hall in a Buddhist temple. One or more Buddhist deities are enshrined within. The record Shizaichō… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hakkaku enden 八角円殿 | An octagonal hall. Temple records owned by Hōryūji 法隆寺 and Gangōji 元興寺 mention the existence of a hakkaku enden as… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hakkaku endō 八角円堂 | Lit. eight-sided circular. An octagonal circular hall *hakkakudō 八角堂,… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hakkakudō 八角堂 | ✓ | Also called *hakkaku endō 八角円堂. An octagonal hall. There are six… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hakkakutō 八角塔 | ✓ | An octagonal pagoda of which there is only one in Japan. Although a plan to erect an octagonal pagoda existed at Saidaiji… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hashirō 橋廊 | A bridge-like corridor that spans a garden pond or an area between two buildings. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hattō 法堂 | ✓ | A lecture hall which corresponds to the *kōdō 講堂 in temples of… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hide 碑伝 | Markers set at intervals along a mountain trail by ascetic monks called yamabushi 山伏 or shugenja 修験者. Many… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Higashimuro 東室 | ✓ | The east dormitory for Buddhist priests at Hōryūji 法隆寺 in Nara. It is located in the west precinct Saiin 西院, and has nine,… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hiraya 平家 | A house with only one story. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Hiunkaku 飛雲閣 | Lit. a flying cloud tower. Unique, three-storied timber building, rōkaku 楼閣, built in asymmetrical design and… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hōjō 方丈 | ✓ | The name given to the type of residence that had evolved by the end of the 14th century for the abbot, i.e., the head priest… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hokkedō 法華堂 | ✓ | Also called hokke sanmaidō 法華三昧堂.
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Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| Hokuendō 北円堂 | The largest extant octagonal Buddhist temple hall, dated 1210. It is located at Kōfukuji 興福寺 in Nara, and is placed on a… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hōkyōintō 宝筺印塔 | ✓ | Lit. Hōkyōin pagoda. A type of pagoda (Sk: stupa) originally made as a repository for copies of the Hōkyōin… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hondō 本堂 | ✓ | Lit. main hall. A Buddhist hall housing the principal images most revered by the particular sect of a temple. The use of the… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| Hōōdō 鳳凰堂 | ✓ | Lit. Phoenix Hall. The Hōōdō is the central hall *Chūdō 中堂 of… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hosodono 細殿 | Lit. long narrow hall.
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Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hōtō 宝塔 | 1 Lit. treasure pagoda. A generic name for a pagoda (Sk: stupa) of a type associated with the Buddhist… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hyakumantō 百万塔 | Lit. one million pagodas. Wooden, miniature, three-storied, circular, memorial pagodas wrought on a lathe for Empress Kōken… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jibutsudō 持仏堂 | Also called *butsuma 仏間. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jikidō 食堂 | Also called saidō 斎堂. A refectory. An independent building on temple grounds where priests and monks had their… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jingūji 神宮寺 | Also called jingoji 神護寺, jingū'in 神宮院, jinganji 神願寺, miyadera 宮寺, or bettōji… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jizōdō 地蔵堂 | ✓ | A temple hall where the Buddhist deity *Jizō 地蔵 (Sk. Ksitigarbha) is… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| Jōdodō 浄土堂 | Lit. Pure Land Hall. The main hall of the Shingon 真言 sect temple of Jōdoji 浄土寺 in Hyōgo Prefecture, dedicated to *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jōgyōdō 常行堂 | Also called jōgyō sanmaidō 常行三昧堂. A hall where a devotee walks around a statue of the *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jūbō 住房 | The earliest (6th-12th century) Buddhist living quarters for priests' and monks. Arranged outside the sacred area containing… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Jūjūtō 十重塔 | A unique, ten-story stone pagoda *sekitō 石塔 at Injōji 引接寺(1386) in Kyoto.… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jūsanjū-no-tō 十三重の塔 | ✓ | A thirteen-storied pagoda. The only wooden thirteen-storied pagoda extant is located at Danzan Jinja 談山神社 (1532) in Nara.… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
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