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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
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

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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