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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
Jōmeimon 承明門 ✓

Also read Shōmeimon, called *Kōmon 閤門. A large, single-storied gate…

Architecture, Gates
jūsōmon 重層門

Lit. a gate of more than one story. Jūsōmon is a gate with a large roof over the entire structure. A balcony,…

Architecture, Gates
udegimon 腕木門 ✓

Also called *kidomon 木戸門. A simple gate with two main posts…

Architecture, Gates
uramon 裏門 Back or rear gate. Architecture, Gates
ushiroya chūmon 後屋中門

A rear wing which extends from the main structure of a folk dwelling *minka…

Architecture, Gates, Folk Dwellings
uzumimon 埋門 ✓

Lit. "buried gate."

1 A gate constructed within the stone walls of a castle. It was used to connect…

Architecture, Gates

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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