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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
uguisugaki 鴬垣

Lit. "bush warbler fence." A common type of rustic sleeve fence *sodegaki…

Architecture, Gardens
ukedai 受台

Also *chūdai 中台. Middle base.

Architecture, Gardens
umi-ishi 海石

Lit. "sea stone." A generic name for stones found in the ocean or along the seashore. Because sea stones contain salt, and…

Architecture, Gardens
urokojiki 鱗敷

Lit. "scale pavement."
One style of *shiki-ishi 敷石 made of…

Architecture, Gardens
ushiro-uke 後受

The placement of primary and secondary rocks in a group, so that the secondary ones are diagonally right and left and to the…

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