| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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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… |
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| haiseki 拝石 | Lit. "worship stone." A type of trump stone *yaku-ishi 役石 from which one can… |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| heri-ishi 縁石 | Also called *katsura-ishi 葛石. Lit. "edging stone." A stone used as a… |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| hirabashi 平橋 | A flat bridge made of wood, wood and sods, or stone. |
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| hirahashi 平橋 | Lit. "flat bridge." A simple kind of garden bridge made with flat wooden boards. In its simplest form, a hirahashi… |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| hōrai enzanseki 蓬莱遠山石 | Lit. "Penglai distant mountain stone." A technique in which the stone representing Mt. Penglai *… |
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| hōrai gantō 蓬莱岩島 | Lit. "Penglai rock island." The technique of representing Mt. Penglai *Hōraisan 蓬莱山 in… |
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| hōrai teien 蓬莱庭園 | Lit. "Penglai garden." A general term for a garden focused thematically on Mt. Penglai *… |
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| hōrai yōshiki 蓬莱様式 | Lit. "Penglai style." A type of garden in which there presentation of Mt. Penglai *… |
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| 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… |
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| hōraiseki 蓬莱石 | Lit. "Penglai stone." A garden stone representing Mt. Penglai *Hōraisan 蓬莱山, the… |
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| yaegaki 八重垣 | Lit. "eightfold fence." A type of double-screen sleeve fence *sodegaki 袖垣 in… |
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| yakuboku 役木 | Also read yakugi. The allocation of shrubbery in a garden, particularly applied to trees which set the mood of a… |
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| yakueda 役枝 | Lit. "roles of branches." The branches of a flower or tree that are given a name based on their "role" in the structure of… |
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| yama-ishi 山石 | Lit. "mountain stone." A generic name for stones found or quarried in the mountains. Unlike sea stones *… |
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| yamato-e shiki teien 大和絵式庭園 | Lit. "gardens in the style of Japanese painting." Also called sakuteikiryū 作庭記流 (gardens in the lineage of the… |
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| yamatobei 大和塀 | ✓ | A fence made of widths of bleached bamboo spaced about 45 cm apart and held in place by bark. This type of fence is used in… |
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| yarimizu 遣水 | ✓ | Lit. "water course." An archaic term for a shallow, curving garden stream. The term, found in the 11th-century garden manual… |
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| yatsu 八つ | Lit. "the character eight 八 yatsu." The practice of propping three or four posts around a newly replanted tree. The… |
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| yobikogata chōzubachi 呼子形手水鉢 | Lit. "whistle shape." A type of water basin *chōzubachi 手水鉢 which resembles… |
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| yotsumegaki 四目垣 | ✓ | Lit. "four-eyed fence." A generic name for a bamboo lattice fence. The poetic name derives from the quadrant of lozenge… |
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| yumiyaeda 弓矢枝 | Lit. "bow and arrow branches." The arrangement of a tree trunk and branches in which one branch grows up from the trunk then… |
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