| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| hachimae-no-ishigumi 鉢前の石組 | A washstand placed near a veranda or in the corner of an open veranda, shoin zashiki 書院座敷, or in the chief priest's… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| haiseki 拝石 | Lit. worship stone. A type of trump stone *yaku-ishi 役石 from which one can… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hashibasami-ishi 橋挟石 | ✓ | Lit. bridge-anchoring stones. The stones placed at the four corners of a stone bridge ishibashi 石橋. Also called the… | Architecture, Gardens |
| heitenseki 平天石 | Lit. flat top stone. A name for stones flattened on the top side. Heitenseki may be used to express the wings of… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| heri-ishi 縁石 | Also called *katsura-ishi 葛石. Lit. edging stone. A stone used as a border… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| higaki 檜垣 | Lit. Cypress fence. A type of fence in which the bark of the Japanese cypress, hinoki 檜, is braided into a net pattern or… | Architecture, Gardens | |
| himuroike 氷室池 | Lit. icehouse pond. A functional type of garden pond used in the winter for cutting ice. In case like the himuroike… |
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| hirabashi 平橋 | A flat bridge made of wood, wood and sods, or stone. |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hirahashi 平橋 | Lit. flat bridge. A simple kind of garden bridge made with flat wooden boards. In its simplest form, a hirahashi may… | Architecture, Gardens | |
| hishigaki 菱垣 | Lit. lozenge fence. A type of open fence made with bamboo or other types of wood braided into lozenge shapes. A good example… |
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| hokusō sansuigashiki teien 北宋山水画式庭園 | Lit. gardens in the style of Northern Song landscape painting. A modern term that stresses the compositional similarities… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| honmikage 本御影 | Lit. true mikage 御影. A type of high quality granite, kakōgan 花崗岩 quarried in the Mikage region of the city… |
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| hōrai enzanseki 蓬莱遠山石 | Lit. Penglai distant mountain stone. A technique in which the stone representing Mt. Penglai *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hōrai gantō 蓬莱岩島 | Lit. Penglai rock island. The technique of representing Mt. Penglai *Hōraisan… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hōrai teien 蓬莱庭園 | Lit. Penglai garden. A general term for a garden focused thematically on Mt. Penglai *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hōrai yōshiki 蓬莱様式 | Lit. Penglai style. A type of garden in which there presentation of Mt. Penglai *… |
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| hōraibune 蓬莱舟 | ✓ | Also called a boat stone funa-ishi 舟石 or treasure-boat stone takarabune-ishi 宝舟石. Lit. Penglai boat. A… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| hōraiseki 蓬莱石 | Lit. Penglai stone. A garden stone representing Mt. Penglai *Hōraisan 蓬莱山,… |
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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… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| 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… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| mesekigaki 目狭垣 | A type of bamboo-ear gate takehogaki 竹穂垣 used for projecting fences *sodegaki… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| 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… |
Art History, Gardens | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| mitatemono chōzubachi 見立物手水鉢 | Lit. "re-used-object water basins." A type of water basin *chōzubachi… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Gardens, Document |
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