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hachimae-no-ishigumi 鉢前の石組

A washstand placed near a veranda or in the corner of an open veranda, shoin zashiki 書院座敷, or in the chief priest's…

Architecture, Gardens
haiseki 拝石

Lit. worship stone. A type of trump stone *yaku-ishi 役石 from which one can…

Architecture, Gardens
hashibasami-ishi 橋挟石 ✓ Lit. bridge-anchoring stones. The stones placed at the four corners of a stone bridge ishibashi 石橋. Also called the… Architecture, Gardens
heitenseki 平天石

Lit. flat top stone. A name for stones flattened on the top side. Heitenseki may be used to express the wings of…

Architecture, Gardens
heri-ishi 縁石

Also called *katsura-ishi 葛石. Lit. edging stone. A stone used as a border…

Architecture, Gardens
higaki 檜垣 Lit. Cypress fence. A type of fence in which the bark of the Japanese cypress, hinoki 檜, is braided into a net pattern or… Architecture, Gardens
himuroike 氷室池

Lit. icehouse pond. A functional type of garden pond used in the winter for cutting ice. In case like the himuroike…

Architecture, Gardens
hirabashi 平橋 A flat bridge made of wood, wood and sods, or stone.
Architecture, Gardens
hirahashi 平橋 Lit. flat bridge. A simple kind of garden bridge made with flat wooden boards. In its simplest form, a hirahashi may… Architecture, Gardens
hishigaki 菱垣

Lit. lozenge fence. A type of open fence made with bamboo or other types of wood braided into lozenge shapes. A good example…

Architecture, Gardens
hokusō sansuigashiki teien 北宋山水画式庭園

Lit. gardens in the style of Northern Song landscape painting. A modern term that stresses the compositional similarities…

Architecture, Gardens
honmikage 本御影

Lit. true mikage 御影. A type of high quality granite, kakōgan 花崗岩 quarried in the Mikage region of the city…

Architecture, Gardens
hōrai enzanseki 蓬莱遠山石

Lit. Penglai distant mountain stone. A technique in which the stone representing Mt. Penglai *…

Architecture, Gardens
hōrai gantō 蓬莱岩島

Lit. Penglai rock island. The technique of representing Mt. Penglai *Hōraisan…

Architecture, Gardens
hōrai teien 蓬莱庭園

Lit. Penglai garden. A general term for a garden focused thematically on Mt. Penglai *…

Architecture, Gardens
hōrai yōshiki 蓬莱様式

Lit. Penglai style. A type of garden in which there presentation of Mt. Penglai *…

Architecture, Gardens
hōraibune 蓬莱舟 ✓

Also called a boat stone funa-ishi 舟石 or treasure-boat stone takarabune-ishi 宝舟石. Lit. Penglai boat. A…

Architecture, Gardens
hōraiseki 蓬莱石

Lit. Penglai stone. A garden stone representing Mt. Penglai *Hōraisan 蓬莱山,…

Architecture, Gardens
rigyoseki 鯉魚石 ✓

Lit. "carp stone." A stone placed at the base of a waterfall to symbolize a carp swimming up the waterfall. Good examples…

Architecture, Gardens
Rikyūgaki 利休垣

A fence made of bamboo stakes that alternate with unpeeled wooden stakes. The bamboo and unpeeled stakes have the same…

Architecture, Gardens
rinsen 林泉

Lit. "forest and stream."
The ancient word for garden. Rinsen first appeared in the 720 Nihon shoki…

Architecture, Gardens
ryōanjigaki 龍安寺垣 ✓

A type of bamboo fence used at Ryōanji 龍安寺, a Zen temple in Kyoto. It is characterized by thick split bamboo that cross…

Architecture, Gardens
ryōmengaki 両面垣

Also ryōmegaki 両目垣. An interlocking bamboo fence. Bamboo, about 3 cm in diameter, are cut in half vertically and…

Architecture, Gardens
ryōtei 涼亭

A summer house, arbor or pavilion that provided a cool resting place in a garden.

Architecture, Gardens
ryūchishiki teien 竜池式庭園

Lit. "dragon pond style." A type of garden featuring a sharply curving pond reminiscent of a dragon's serpentine body. Good…

Architecture, Gardens
ryūmonbaku 竜門瀑

Lit. "dragon's gate cascade." One type of cascade *baku 瀑 found in Japanese…

Architecture, Gardens
ryūsui kanshōshiki teien 流水観賞式庭園

Lit. "flowing water appreciation style garden."
A general term used to designate any garden focused around a stream.…

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ryūsuishiki chisen 流水式池泉

Lit. "flowing water style of pond and stream."
A type of water feature in a garden that includes a curving water course.…

Architecture, Gardens

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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