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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
ōmon 大門

Also read *daimon. Lit. large gate. A large gate that functions as the entrance…

Architecture, Gates
omotemon 表門

A generic term for the main gates of an aristocratic dwelling. It applies especially to residences in the shinden…

Architecture, Gates
ōmunamon 大棟門

Also read ōmunekado. A large gate that is similar to another type of gate called *…

Architecture, Gates
onarimon 御成門

A visitor's or regent's gate. A type of *yakuimon 薬医門 or *…

Architecture, Gates
Ōtenmon 応天門

The red-painted front gate, 5 x 2 bays with three entrances that provided access from the south to enter the *…

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