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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
naijimon 内侍門

Also read naishimon. Traditionally, the timbergate through which virgin attendants entered a shrine. Structurally,…

Architecture, Gates
Naka-no-Mibumon 中の壬生門

According to the Shokunihongi 続日本紀, a gate leading to the waiting area for all officials, chōshūden…

Architecture, Gates
nandaimon 南大門 ✓

The great south gate at Tōdaiji 東大寺 in Nara. The term is also used for the main south gate at other temples.

Architecture, Gates
nanken-nanko 何間 何戸

Lit. "How many bays? How many entrances?" Questions posed in order to ascertain the number of bays *…

Architecture, Gates
Narukomon 鳴子門 ✓

A simple gate located in the northeast corner ofthe inner moat uchi-no-hori 内の濠 of the inner citadel Honmaru 本丸 (…

Architecture, Gates
nijūmon 二重門 ✓

A two-storied gate that has a flanking roof that surrounds the lower story and most frequently has a hip-and-gable roof *…

Architecture, Gates
Nikkamon 日華門 ✓

Also read Jikkamon, written Nikkamon 日花門 (found in *Shōmei 匠明…

Architecture, Gates
niōmon 二王門

Also written 仁王門. A true two-storied gate *nijūmon 二重門, or a high gate *…

Architecture, Gates
nitenmon 二天門 ✓

A middle gate *chūmon 中門 at a Buddhist temple. Usually it is an 8-…

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