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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
Tayasumon 田安門 ✓

One of the gates in the inner enclosure of the old Edo-jō 江戸城. It preserves the *…

Architecture, Gates
Tetsumon 鉄門

A unique gate at Himeji-jō 姫路城 'Nu'-no-mon 'ぬ'の門 (1601-10), Hyōgo Prefecture. It is tall and has a double story and…

Architecture, Gates
tōdaimon 東大門

The main, east gate of a temple compound.

Architecture, Gates
tsuchimon 土門

A roofless gate set in an earthen wall. At Kyoto Gosho 京都御所, there are two such gates: the Upper East Gate, Jōtōmon 上東門, and…

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