| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| hakamagoshi 袴腰 | ✓ | 1 A trapezoidal form created on top of the posts that frame the host's entrance *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses, Structures, Buildings |
| hakkaku butsuden 八角仏殿 | An octagonal hall in a Buddhist temple. One or more Buddhist deities are enshrined within. The record Shizaichō… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hakkaku enden 八角円殿 | An octagonal hall. Temple records owned by Hōryūji 法隆寺 and Gangōji 元興寺 mention the existence of a hakkaku enden as… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hakkaku endō 八角円堂 | Lit. eight-sided circular. An octagonal circular hall *hakkakudō 八角堂,… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hakkakudō 八角堂 | ✓ | Also called *hakkaku endō 八角円堂. An octagonal hall. There are six… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hakkakutō 八角塔 | ✓ | An octagonal pagoda of which there is only one in Japan. Although a plan to erect an octagonal pagoda existed at Saidaiji… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hashirō 橋廊 | A bridge-like corridor that spans a garden pond or an area between two buildings. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hattō 法堂 | ✓ | A lecture hall which corresponds to the *kōdō 講堂 in temples of… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hide 碑伝 | Markers set at intervals along a mountain trail by ascetic monks called yamabushi 山伏 or shugenja 修験者. Many… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Higashimuro 東室 | ✓ | The east dormitory for Buddhist priests at Hōryūji 法隆寺 in Nara. It is located in the west precinct Saiin 西院, and has nine,… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hiraya 平家 | A house with only one story. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Hiunkaku 飛雲閣 | Lit. a flying cloud tower. Unique, three-storied timber building, rōkaku 楼閣, built in asymmetrical design and… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hōjō 方丈 | ✓ | The name given to the type of residence that had evolved by the end of the 14th century for the abbot, i.e., the head priest… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hokkedō 法華堂 | ✓ | Also called hokke sanmaidō 法華三昧堂.
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Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| Hokuendō 北円堂 | The largest extant octagonal Buddhist temple hall, dated 1210. It is located at Kōfukuji 興福寺 in Nara, and is placed on a… |
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| hōkyōintō 宝筺印塔 | ✓ | Lit. Hōkyōin pagoda. A type of pagoda (Sk: stupa) originally made as a repository for copies of the Hōkyōin… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hondō 本堂 | ✓ | Lit. main hall. A Buddhist hall housing the principal images most revered by the particular sect of a temple. The use of the… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| Hōōdō 鳳凰堂 | ✓ | Lit. Phoenix Hall. The Hōōdō is the central hall *Chūdō 中堂 of… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hosodono 細殿 | Lit. long narrow hall.
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| hōtō 宝塔 | 1 Lit. treasure pagoda. A generic name for a pagoda (Sk: stupa) of a type associated with the Buddhist… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hyakumantō 百万塔 | Lit. one million pagodas. Wooden, miniature, three-storied, circular, memorial pagodas wrought on a lathe for Empress Kōken… |
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| Saiendō 西円堂 | ✓ | An octagonal hall at Hōryūji 法隆寺, Nara, which was destroyed by a typhoon in 1050. The structure was rebuilt in 1250. It is… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| saikondō 西金堂 | An image hall *kondō 金堂 situated to the west of a pagoda in temple grounds.… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| sangen-ikko 三間一戸 | ✓ | A 3 x 2 bay gate, often 8-legged style *hakkyakumon 八脚門, with entrance… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| sangendō 三間堂 | ✓ | A building with 3 bays on all four sides, commonly written 3 × 3 bays. The result is usually a square building. However,… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| sanmaidō 三昧堂 | Also called nenbutsu sanmaidō 念仏三昧堂. Nenbutsu 念仏 prayers are recited, to obtain unity with *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| sanmen sōbō 三面僧房 | Priest and monk dormitories constructed to the north, east and west of the lecture hall *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| sanrō 山廊 | ✓ | Also kirō 機廊. Small, single-storied, detached buildings on temple grounds constructed on each side of a two-… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| sayadō 鞘堂 | Also ōidō 覆堂, ōiya 覆屋 or tōdō 套堂. Lit. "sheath hall." A building constructed over a shrine or… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| sazaedō 栄螺堂 | ✓ | Also called sansōdō or sasaidō 三匝堂. An hexagonal Buddhist hall constructed with two internal, circuitous… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| sekidō 石幢 | Lit. "stone flag." A type of stone pagoda with a hexagonal or octagonal base, a banner-shaped shaft, dōshin 幢身, a… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| sekitō 石塔 | ✓ | Also read ishitō. A generic term for pagodas or stupas made of stone. It includes multiple-storied stone pagodas… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| sen-in 賤院 | Also written 賎院. The quarters where the lowliest serfs lived in a Buddhist temple. In ancient Japan, these people were… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| shakadō 釈迦堂 | ✓ | A hall in which a statue of the historical Buddha *Shaka 釈迦, born in either the mid-6th or mid-… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| shariden 舎利殿 | ✓ | A square reliquary hall, used to enshrine the relics of Buddha, called *shari 舎利… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| sharitō 舎利塔 | A stupa-shaped container for relics *shari 舎利 that may itself be set within a small shrine … |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| shi-in 子院 | A subsidiary temple belonging to the main temple and serving as the founder's mausoleum. This arrangement is most frequently… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| shichidō garan 七堂伽藍 | The seven principal buildings considered necessary for a Buddhist temple from the 7-12th century. They include: the main… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| shidō 祠堂 | A mortuary hall. One example is the rear part of the *Kaisandō 開山堂 at Eihōji… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| shindō 新堂 | Lit. "new hall." Several of Japan's temple complexes include a building known as shindō. One of the most famous is… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Shingon-in 真言院 | Also called Shingondō 真言堂, Shūhōin 修法院 or Mandara dōjō 曼荼羅道場. Lit. "the mantra hall." A hall… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| shisōbō 私僧房 | A private residence for high-ranking priests within the confines of a Buddhist temple. During the Heian period, this type of… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| shitagoya 下小屋 | A temporary shed used by carpenters, stone masons, and plasterers to prepare structural members for a building. Often parts… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| shōden 正殿 | Also pronounced seiden. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| shōdō 正堂 | Also seidō. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| shōrō 鐘楼 | ✓ | Also called shūrō; kanetsukidō 鐘突堂, lit. "bell hitting hall"; and tsuriganedō 釣鐘堂, belfry. A… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| Shōryōin 聖霊院 | ✓ | A hall dedicated to the soul of Shōtoku Taishi (see *Shōtoku Taishi-zō 聖徳太子像) at… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| Shōsōin 正倉院 | Also called Sōen-in 倉垣院. A treasure storehouse *hōko 宝庫 with a raised floor at… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| sōbō 僧房 | ✓ | Also written 僧坊. Buddhist priests', monks' or nuns' living quarters in the 7th-8th century. One of the seven buildings… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| sōdō 僧堂 | A large hall at a Zen temple. It was divided into two parts. The front part, called the *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| soshidō 祖師堂 | A hall dedicated to the founder of a temple, especially at Zen 禅 temples. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| sōtō 層塔 | A generic name for a pagoda (Sk: stupa) which has several roofs. Invariably they have an odd number of roofs. Most… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
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