| 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 | |
| Mandaradō 曼荼羅堂 | ✓ | Also Taimadera *Hondō 当麻寺本堂. Mandaradō literally means a hall… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| mandokoro 政所 | The administrative offices housed in the refectory of an ancient temple. During the Heian period, and continuing through the… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Masodō 媽姐堂 | ✓ | 1 A Chinese temple Sōfukuji 崇福寺 in Nagasaki prefecture, called Masodō, which enshrines a deity called… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| menzō 眠蔵 | Also mendō 眠堂. Sleeping quarters for the head priest behind the main room at a subsidiary Zen temple *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| midō 御堂 | 1 Another name for a temple called Hōjōji 法成寺, built at the end of the tenth to beginning of the 11th… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| mieidō 御影堂 | ✓ | Lit. "image hall." Also called eidō 影堂, goeidō or goedō 御影堂. A temple hall explicitly assigned to… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| mirokudō 弥勒堂 | A Buddhist hall dedicated to *Miroku 弥勒 (Sk: Maitreya), the compassionate bodhisattva of… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| moji-etō 文字絵塔 | Sutras written in such a way that the characters form the image of a pagoda. One of the two methods is called moji… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures, Art History, Painting | |
| momitō 籾塔 | Lit. "unhulled rice pagoda." A small wooden votive pagoda carved with a knife. It is related to *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| monbansho 門番所 | The quarters for the caretaker of the main gate of a Japanese temple. These may be attached to or near the main gate. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Monjudō 文殊堂 | A small Buddhist hall dedicated to the Bodhisattva of wisdom *Monju 文殊 (Sk. Manjusri) who usually is… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| muhōtō 無縫塔 | ✓ | Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| muryōjuin 無量寿院 | 1 A name given to the *amidadō 阿弥陀堂, a temple hall dedicated… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
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