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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
hakkyakumon 八脚門 ✓

Also read yatsuashimon. Also called sangenikkomon 三間一戸門 or sangen sankomon 三間三戸門 depending upon…

Architecture, Gates
Hamagurimon 蛤門 ✓

Lit. clam gate. One of the four gates on the westside of the outer enclosure of Kyoto Gosho 京都御所. Altogether there were nine…

Architecture, Gates
heijūmon 塀重門

Also written 塀中門 and sometimes read heichōmon; also called heichimon or heijimon 塀地門 or …

Architecture, Gates
hirakaramon 平唐門 ✓

Also *karamon 唐門. A gate characterized by undulating bargeboards *…

Architecture, Gates
hiramon 平門 Also read hirakado. A simple gate set between two posts. The gate may have a very low pitched roof covered either with… Architecture, Gates
hishi-no-mon 菱の門

Lit. diamond-shaped gate. Also called ōteguchi 大手口 (large front entrance). A two-storied turret gate *…

Architecture, Gates
Masomon 媽姐門 ✓

A unique gate at Sōfukuji 崇福寺 (rebuilt in 1827) in Nagasaki prefecture. The size is unusual for an eight-legged gate *…

Architecture, Gates
Minami Zuijinmon 南随神門

A gate located south of the santuary Honden 本殿 at Kibitsu Jinja 吉備津神社 in Okayama prefecture. Images of two defied loyal…

Architecture, Gates
Minamigomon 南御門 ✓

The gates on the south side of Ise Jingū 伊勢神宮. They are large eight-legged gates *…

Architecture, Gates
miyukimon 御幸門

1 A gate originally used exclusively by the emperor. It had two main pillars and…

Architecture, Gates
mon 門 ✓

Gate. Also read kado. A suffix which refers to a gate, of which there are many types. Style: the structural style…

Architecture, Gates
mukaiheijūmon 向い塀重門

A gate that has two supporting posts, sodebashira 袖柱, in front of and behind the main pillars to carry the…

Architecture, Gates
mukaikaramon 向唐門 ✓

Also often read mukōkaramon. A four-legged gate *shikyakumon…

Architecture, Gates
munamon 棟門

Also called munekado. A simple gate with two circular pillars, a gable roof *…

Architecture, Gates

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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