| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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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 | |
| Saimon 西門 | An eight-legged *hakkyakumon 八脚門, 3-bay wide, 1-entrance gate with a gable… |
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| Sakuheimon 朔平門 | ✓ | The Sakuheimon is the center gate on the north side of Kyoto Gosho 京都御所, during the end of the Heian period. It can be seen… |
Architecture, Gates |
| sangedatsumon 三解脱門 | Also *sanmon 三門. The most famous example is the very large 21.05 m x 9.72 m gate at Zōjōji 増上寺… |
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| sankyōmon 三きょう門 | Also called sanren āchimon 三連アーチ門. A gate with three arches, made within a stone wall. |
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| sanmon 三門 | ✓ | Also written 山門; often called *sangedatsumon 三解脱門 meaning enlightenment gate. Main gate… |
Architecture, Gates |
| seibyō kōmon 聖廟校門 | Also seibyōmon 聖廟門. Lit. "Confucian schoolgate." A 1 x 1 bay, single-story gate with a gable roof *… |
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| Seijōmon 清浄門 | Also called Sōjōmon 僧正門. The middle gate in the semi-opened, west corridor at Kasuga Taisha Honsha 春日大社本社 in Nara.… |
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| Seishomon 清所門 | ✓ | A type of *yakuimon 薬医門. A 1-bay, single-entrance gate with side gates *… |
Architecture, Gates |
| sekimon 石門 | 1 Also read ishimon. A gate made almost entirely of stone, seen especially in Okinawa Prefecture.… |
Architecture, Gates, Castles | |
| sekishōmon 石牆門 | Also written 石墻門. Lit. "stone wall gate." A gate with either single or triple arch-like openings in a wall made of stacked… |
Architecture, Gates, Castles | |
| sekizō-no-mon 石造の門 | Lit. "stone made gate." |
Architecture, Gates | |
| shikirimon 仕切門 | ✓ | Lit. "partition gate." A gate that partitions or closes off one area from another. Two examples of partition gates are found… |
Architecture, Gates |
| shikyakumon 四脚門 | ✓ | Also an old name read yotsuashimon and sometimes written 四足門; also called ikken-ikkomon 一間一戸門. A four-… |
Architecture, Gates |
| Shimizumon 清水門 | A gate located opposite the Shimizu 清水 moat (rebuilt 1658 ) at Edo-jō 江戸城, constructed in the *… |
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| shōrōmon 鐘楼門 | ✓ | Also read shūrōmon. A two-storied temple gate in which a bell is hung, often found in Tendai 天台 sect temples. A… |
Architecture, Gates |
| sōmon 総門 | 1 The main entrance gate for many Zen temples. They are large, single-storied, 8-legged or 4-legged gates… |
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| Soto-sakuradamon 外桜田門 | ✓ | Also called Sakuradamon 桜田門. An entrance gate constructed 1664 at Edo-jō 江戸城 in Tokyo that preserves its… |
Architecture, Gates |
| sukiuchiumon 透打門 | A type of gate for temporary wooden enclosures. It is characterized by the attachment of horizontal, diagonal or vertical… |
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| Suzakumon 朱雀門 | The front gate at the center of the south end of the outer enclosure that surrounded the palace compound at Heijō-kyō 平城京… |
Architecture, Gates |
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