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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 A type of pagoda (Sk: stupa) originally made as a repository for copies of the Hōkyōin… |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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| 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 | |
| kagariya 篝屋 | Guardhouses for soldiers placed at street corners in Kyoto and Kamakura during the Kamakura period. The earliest known … |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kaidan'in 戒壇院 | ✓ | A Tendai 天台 sect building that contains an ordination platform used exclusively for the ceremony to impart the Buddhist… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| kaidan 戒壇 | A platform or dais used for the Buddhist ordination ceremony. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kairō 回廊 | ✓ | Also written 廻廊; also called bu 廡, sōrō 走廊 or *horō 歩廊. Single-… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| kaisandō 開山堂 | ✓ | A hall that enshrines a statue, portrait or memorial tablet of the founder of a temple or the founder of a particular… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| kaisantō 開山塔 | Lit. founder's pagoda. A rare type of wooden pagoda *hōtō 宝塔, constructed… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kaisho 会所 | 1 A meeting place. Originally specified as a place in a shinden style mansion *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Kami-no-midō 上御堂 | Lit. Upper honorable hall. A Buddhist image hall at Hōryūji 法隆寺 (1318) in Nara, rebuilt long after the original hall, built… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Kangakuin 勧学院 | Also omotemon 表門. The front gate of Shūgenji 宗源寺 a subsidiary temple of Hōryūji 法隆寺. It serves as a place for study… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kanjōdō 潅頂堂 | Also called kanjōin 潅頂院. The hall used to conduct the ceremony to confer the basic precepts and mystic teachings of… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kannondō 観音堂 | ✓ | A Buddhist temple hall dedicated to the Goddess of Mercy *Kannon 観音. Fukushima… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| kansuryō 監寺寮 | One of the administration offices within the priests' living quarters *kuri 庫裡,… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kasatōba 笠塔婆 | ✓ | Also called kasasotōba 笠卒都婆. A memorial or grave stone. The most common has a square shaft *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| Keikyūin 桂宮院 | Lit. cinnamon hall. An octagonal main hall, Hondō 本堂, of the subsidiary temple, Keikyūin at Kōryūji 広隆寺 (1251… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kōdō 講堂 | 1 Lecture hall in a Buddhist temple. In the Nara and Heian periods, it was one of the principal buildings… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kōfūzō 綱封蔵 | ✓ | Also called *narabigura 双倉 or twin storehouses. A large… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| kondō 金堂 | ✓ | Lit. golden hall. The name given to the principal hall housing the most sacred images at Buddhist temples from the Asuka… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| Konjikidō 金色堂 | Also called Hikaridō 光堂 or Konjikiin 金色院. Lit. Gold colored hall. A small Buddhist edifice at… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Konpon chūdō 根本中堂 | Lit. original central hall. The main hall, Kondō 金堂 of Enryakuji 延暦寺 (1640), Shiga Prefecture. A large single storied… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| konrō 軒廊 | Lit. eave corridor. A roofed corridor with open sides. A connecting corridor between two buildings. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| korō 鼓楼 | ✓ | A small, two-storied structure *rō-zukuri 楼造, in which a drum is suspended in… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| kui 杭 | Also kigui 木杭. Pile. A wooden stake or post driven into the ground. Closely placed round wooden posts, often shaved… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kujū-no-tō 九重塔 | Also pronounced kyūjū-no-tō. A 9-storied pagoda. Kudaradaiji 百済大寺 (6th-7th century) in Nara, and Hōshōji 法勝寺 (Heian… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kunisakitō 国東塔 | A single-storied, circular pagoda with a pyramidal roof. A type of *hōtō… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kuri 庫裡 | 1 Aiso written 庫裏. A structure in the precincts of a temple originally associated primarily with food… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kurodo-no-gosho 黒戸の御所 | Also abbreviated to kurodo 黒戸. Lit. black door of the palace. A long narrow structure that was used for private… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kuyōtō 供養塔 | A memorial pagoda, for which there is no particular shape or size. Kuyōtō is an offering of worldly goods such… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kyakuden 客殿 | Lit. guest hall. A building constructed in one of three residential styles: *shoin-… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kyōzō 経蔵 | ✓ | Also called kyōko 経庫, kyōdō 経堂, zōden 蔵殿. A repository and storehouse for sutras, or sacred books… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
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