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jibutsudō 持仏堂

Also called *butsuma 仏間.

1 Small, private buildings or…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
jikidō 食堂

Also called saidō 斎堂. A refectory. An independent building on temple grounds where priests and monks had their…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
jingūji 神宮寺

Also called jingoji 神護寺, jingū'in 神宮院, jinganji 神願寺, miyadera 宮寺, or bettōji…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
jizōdō 地蔵堂 ✓

A temple hall where the Buddhist deity *Jizō 地蔵 (Sk. Ksitigarbha) is…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
Jōdodō 浄土堂

Lit. Pure Land Hall. The main hall of the Shingon 真言 sect temple of Jōdoji 浄土寺 in Hyōgo Prefecture, dedicated to *…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
jōgyōdō 常行堂

Also called jōgyō sanmaidō 常行三昧堂. A hall where a devotee walks around a statue of the *…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
jūbō 住房

The earliest (6th-12th century) Buddhist living quarters for priests' and monks. Arranged outside the sacred area containing…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
Jūjūtō 十重塔

A unique, ten-story stone pagoda *sekitō 石塔 at Injōji 引接寺(1386) in Kyoto.…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
jūsanjū-no-tō  十三重の塔 ✓

A thirteen-storied pagoda. The only wooden thirteen-storied pagoda extant is located at Danzan Jinja 談山神社 (1532) in Nara.…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
Mandaradō 曼荼羅堂 ✓

Also Taimadera *Hondō 当麻寺本堂. Mandaradō literally means a hall…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
mandokoro 政所

The administrative offices housed in the refectory of an ancient temple. During the Heian period, and continuing through the…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
Masodō 媽姐堂 ✓

1 A Chinese temple Sōfukuji 崇福寺 in Nagasaki prefecture, called Masodō, which enshrines a deity called…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
menzō 眠蔵

Also mendō 眠堂. Sleeping quarters for the head priest behind the main room at a subsidiary Zen temple *…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
midō 御堂

1 Another name for a temple called Hōjōji 法成寺, built at the end of the tenth to beginning of the 11th…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
mieidō 御影堂 ✓

Lit. "image hall." Also called eidō 影堂, goeidō or goedō 御影堂. A temple hall explicitly assigned to…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
mirokudō 弥勒堂

A Buddhist hall dedicated to *Miroku 弥勒 (Sk: Maitreya), the compassionate bodhisattva of…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
moji-etō 文字絵塔

Sutras written in such a way that the characters form the image of a pagoda. One of the two methods is called moji…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures, Art History, Painting
momitō 籾塔

Lit. "unhulled rice pagoda." A small wooden votive pagoda carved with a knife. It is related to *…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
monbansho 門番所

The quarters for the caretaker of the main gate of a Japanese temple. These may be attached to or near the main gate.

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
Monjudō 文殊堂

A small Buddhist hall dedicated to the Bodhisattva of wisdom *Monju 文殊 (Sk. Manjusri) who usually is…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
muhōtō 無縫塔 ✓

Also written 無方塔. Also *kaisantō 開山塔 or *…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
muryōjuin 無量寿院

1 A name given to the *amidadō 阿弥陀堂, a temple hall dedicated…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures

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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