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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…

Architecture, Gardens
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…

Architecture, Gardens
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…

Architecture, Gardens
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 *…

Architecture, Gardens
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,…

Architecture, Gardens
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 *…

Architecture, Gardens
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 *…

Architecture, Gardens
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 *…

Architecture, Gardens
mizubune 水船

Lit. "water boat." A type of large boat-shaped stone used for water basins *mitatemono…

Architecture, Gardens
modorieda 戻り枝

Lit. "returning branch." A tree branch which, naturally or by training, turns abruptly downward. The dramatic nature of the…

Architecture, Gardens
mokukasan 木仮山

A somewhat ambiguous term meaning landscape. Because the curving root of a tree, moku 木, was thought to resemble…

Architecture, Gardens
mondai-ishi 問台石

Lit. "gate foundation stones." A large, flat stepping stone *yaku-ishi 役石…

Architecture, Gardens
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.

Architecture, Gardens
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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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