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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
hachiman torii 八幡鳥居 ✓

A pillar of the shinmei type, *shinmei torii 神明鳥居, with no…

Architecture, Shrines
hachiman-zukuri 八幡造

A style of shrine architecture characterized by a structure which from the side-view gives the impression of two separate…

Architecture, Shrines
haiden 拝殿 ✓

A worship hall at a Shinto shrine, usually placed on the same axis as the offering hall, *…

Architecture, Shrines
hakozaki torii 筥崎鳥居

Also called Hakozaki Hachimangū 筥崎八幡宮, Hakozaki no Miya 筥崎宮 or Hizen torii 肥前鳥居. A stone pillar type of gate characterized…

Architecture, Shrines
haraidono 祓殿

Lit. purification hall. Also read haraedono. Also haraidokoro 祓所. A hall where Shinto priests or lay…

Architecture, Shrines
hashidono 橋殿 ✓

Lit. bridge building. A wooden structure (3 × 4 bays) built over a stream. It is closely related to the kaguraden…

Architecture, Shrines
heiden 幣殿

A shrine building, usually located on the same axis as the worship hall *haiden…

Architecture, Shrines
hie-zukuri 日吉造

Also called shōtei-zukuri or shōtai-zukuri 聖帝造 or sannō-zukuri 山王造. A unique style of shrine…

Architecture, Shrines
himorogi 神籬

1 A single sacred pillar standing independently. Its origin as well as its true significance is not clear…

Architecture, Shrines
hiyoku irimoya-zukuri 比翼入母屋造 ✓

A style of hip-and-gable roof exemplified by the one on the *honden 本殿 at…

Architecture, Shrines
hōko 宝庫

Also hōzō 宝蔵, shinko 神庫, itakura 板倉, banzō 板蔵, sazō 叉蔵. A storehouse for…

Architecture, Shrines
honden 本殿

The sanctuary of a Shinto shrine, considered the most sacred shrine building because it contains the essence of the deity,…

Architecture, Shrines
maidono 舞殿 ✓

Also read maiden. Also kaguradono, kaguraden 神楽殿 or kagura 神楽. Lit. "dance hall."…

Architecture, Shrines
massha 末社

One or many small subsidiary Shinto shrines belonging to a main shrine. If the buildings are located within the precincts of…

Architecture, Shrines
mihashira torii 三柱鳥居

Also read mitsubashira torii or called sankakutorii 三角鳥居. A gate-like structure *…

Architecture, Shrines
miho-zukuri 美保造 ✓

A style of architecture found at Miho Jinja 美保神社 in Shimane Prefecture. Two shrine buildings in the taisha style *…

Architecture, Shrines
mikeden 御饌殿

Also pronounced mikedono. A daily offering hall at a shrine. The most important example is in the northeast corner…

Architecture, Shrines
mikoshiyadori 神輿舎 ✓

Also written 神輿宿. Also mikoshigura 神輿倉, or shin'yoko 神輿庫. A storehouse for a portable shrine *…

Architecture, Shrines
mikuri 御厨

Also pronounced mikuriya. A building or kitchen where food and drink are prepared to offer to the gods. For…

Architecture, Shrines
misedana-zukuri 見世棚造 ✓

Also written 店棚造. Also dashimise-zukuri 出し店造. A very small shrine building, one bay wide, within the precincts of a…

Architecture, Shrines
mitarashi 御手洗 ✓

A place to one side of the approach to a Shinto shrine where visitors perform purification rites, including rinsing the…

Architecture, Shrines
mitosai 御戸祭

One of the ceremonies performed at the time of shrine construction when the doors of the main shrine building are hung. At…

Architecture, Shrines
miwa torii 三輪鳥居 ✓

Also called mitsutorii 三鳥居 or sankō torii 三光鳥居. An entrance gate to a Shinto shrine comprised of three…

Architecture, Shrines
mizugaki 瑞垣 ✓

Also written 籬垣, 水垣. A fence. Originally, mizugaki referred to a fence composed of trees surrounding a forest or…

Architecture, Shrines
mokedono 儲殿

A temporary building for housing the deity at Ise Jingū 伊勢神宮, during the Heian and Kamakura periods. During the rebuilding…

Architecture, Shrines
mukō-zukuri 向造

Also pronounced mukai-zukuri. A style used for the main building *honden…

Architecture, Shrines
myōjin torii 明神鳥居 ✓

A pillared gate-like entrance to a Shinto shrine, developed around the 9th century. The most common type of shrine entrance…

Architecture, Shrines

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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