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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
jōdo teien 浄土庭園

Lit. Pure Land garden. Large pond gardens at Pure Land Buddhist temples which recreate the palatial garden of *…

Architecture, Gardens
Jōge nidanshiki teien 上下二段式庭園

Lit. upper-lower, two-step style garden. A modern term designating a common type of bipartite garden featuring a small pond…

Architecture, Gardens
ōgaki 大垣

Lit. "big fence." Large, continuous fences in distinction to short screen fences *…

Architecture, Gardens
onari-niwa 御成庭

Lit. "a visitor's garden." A garden at an aristocratic dwelling, located at the entrance for royalty, shogun and noblemen.…

Architecture, Gardens
oriido-no-kagenoki 下り井戸の影の樹

Lit. "spiral well with shade tree." A tree planted near a spiral well *oriido 下り井戸 so that it…

Architecture, Gardens
oriido 下り井戸

Lit. "descending well." A deep well. It is also called spiral well rasei 螺井, or snail well maimai ido…

Architecture, Gardens
oshibuchi 押縁

Lit. "pushing frame." The horizontal bars to which the vertical slats *tateko…

Architecture, Gardens
ōtsugaki 大津垣

Also called yarai 矢来, yaraigaki 矢来垣, chōsengaki 朝鮮垣, and chōsen yarai 朝鮮矢来…

Architecture, Gardens

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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