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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
jōōgata tōrō 紹鴎形灯籠

A lantern with a canopy and a square fire holder higuchi 火口 supported below the middle base by a single natural…

Architecture, Lanterns
jukōgata tōrō 珠光形灯籠

Also read shukōgata tōrō. Also written shikōgata 四光形. A type of lantern with a gently rounded canopy…

Architecture, Lanterns
ukeza 受座

The indentation in the middle of the base *kiso 基礎 of a lantern…

Architecture, Lanterns
unbokugata tōrō 雲卜形灯籠

A type of lantern. These six-sided lanterns are the same as the kasuga type, but they were carved by a stonemason…

Architecture, Lanterns
urizanegata tōrō 瓜実形灯籠

An unusual type of lantern where the flame window is shaped like a *muhōtō…

Architecture, Lanterns

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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