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| kabumono 株もの | Lit. stump. The term is used to designate trees which have no trunk but grow so that the branches come directly out of the… |
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| kaiyūshiki teien 回遊式庭園 | Lit. stroll style garden. A type of garden designed to be entered and enjoyed on foot. Most gardens can be divided either… |
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| kaki 垣 | Also read en; also called kakine 垣根. A generic term for a fence, garden precinct wall, or partition. Some… |
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| kakitome no ki 垣留の木 | Lit. fence-stopping tree. The technique of painting a tree at the end of a fence. The tree should be in harmony with the… |
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| kakitsuke 掻きつけ | Also written 垣つけ. A method of fence construction where vertical members *tateko… |
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| kamejima 亀島 | Lit. tortoise island. A small island made with several stones that express the head, feet, and tail of a tortoise. Found in… |
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| kamogawa-ishi 賀茂川石 | Lit. Kamogawa stone. A type of stone taken from the bed of the upper Kamo River in Kyoto. It was much in demand as garden… |
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| karadake 唐竹 | Lit. Chinese bamboo. A common type of slender, long-jointed bamboo madake 真竹. It is often used to construct bamboo… |
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| karayō-no-niwa 唐様の庭 | Lit. Chinese style garden. A general and problematic term used to distinguish gardens with an exotic continental flavor from… |
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| kareike 枯池 | Lit. dry pond. A symbolic pond made with rocks, pebbles, and white sand instead of water. Along with the more common dry… |
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| karenagare 枯流 | ✓ | Lit. dry stream. A common garden element construction in dry landscape *karesansui… |
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| karesansui gogan 枯山水護岸 | Lit. dry landscape revetment. The technique of arranging stones to suggest the bank gogan 護岸 of a dry pond or… |
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| karesansui 枯山水 | ✓ | Lit. dry landscape. A common type of garden which suggests mountains and water using only stones, sand or gravel and,… |
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| karetaki 枯滝 | Lit. dry waterfall. A common technique in dry landscape *karesansui … |
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| karikomi 刈込 | Lit. pruning. The term refers to the clipped hedge or clipped plants common in Japanese gardens. Karikomi is… |
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| kasan 仮山 | Lit. artificial mountain. Also read kazan, or kasansui 仮山水. A general term referring to an artificial… |
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| katanagareyō 片流様 | An oblong island created in a garden pond. Although it is a fabrication, its appearance seems genuine due to the natural… |
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| katōgaki 火灯垣 | Lit. flame fence. A type of fence with an ogee-arched entrance. See *katō 火灯… |
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| katsuragaki 桂垣 | The bamboo fence that surrounds the Katsura Rikyū 桂離宮 in Kyoto. The fence it is widely imitated today. At given intervals… |
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| kazari chōzubachi 飾手水鉢 | Lit. decorative wash basin. A wash basin placed in a garden for decoration and not used for washing hands. Usually, a wooden… |
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| kazari-ishi 飾石 | Lit. decoration stones. A type of stone prized for its beauty and usually placed apart from the more symbolic stone… |
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| kazariido 飾井戸 | An ornamental well. A garden well which has no water and therefore functions or only as a symbolic or decorative item. It is… |
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| kazariuchi 飾打 | The ornamental elements of a garden. The features of a garden which have an ostensible function but are treated in a non-… |
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| keiseki 景石 | Lit. scenic stone. A type of garden stone meant to be appreciated for its beauty. Several usually keiseki stones… |
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| kenninjigaki 建仁寺垣 | ✓ | A type of bamboo fence that takes its name from its use first at the temple Kenninji 建仁寺 in Kyoto. It is also considered to… |
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| kentō 献灯 | A votive light offered to a Shinto or Buddhist deity. The lantern which holds the votive light is called a *… |
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| kesagata chōzubachi 袈裟形手水鉢 | Lit. surplice shape water basins. A stone wash basin *chōzubachi… |
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| kikieda 利き枝 | A large and powerful branch which dominates a tree. The kikieda featured in garden design and also in paintings… |
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| kikine 利き根 | A term which refers to the large roots of trees, for example in Kano Eitoku's 狩野永徳 (1543-90) painting, Birds and Flowers… |
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| kinkakujigaki 金閣寺垣 | ✓ | Lit. Kinkakuji 金閣寺 style fence. A type of low, bamboo see-through fence *… |
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| kiri-ishibashi 切石橋 | Lit. cut stone bridge. A type of stone bridge *ishibashi 石橋,… |
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| kishū-ishi 紀州石 | Lit. Kishū stones. A type of blue stone *ao-ishi 青石, quarried in… |
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| kōetsujigaki 光悦寺垣 | Lit. Kōetsuji fence. Also kōetsugaki 光悦垣. A type of open, woven bamboo fence *… |
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| kogaseki 虎臥石 | Lit. lying tiger stone. A type of trump stone *yaku-ishi 役石 placed at… |
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| kōkishiki karesansui 後期式枯山水 | Lit. late style dry landscape. A type of dry garden *karesansui 枯山水… |
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| kōshū kurama-ishi 甲州鞍馬石 | Also called shinkurama-ishi 新鞍馬石 and kōshūmikage-ishi 甲州御影石. A type of low quality granite quarried in… |
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| kumigaki 組垣 | Lit. braided fence. A generic name for fences in which the lattice pieces of the fence are braided. In some cases the bamboo… |
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| kumiizutsu 組井筒 | Lit. arranged well crib. A type of well made of four joined stone blocks. It is also called kakikomi ido 掻込井戸 (… |
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| kunoji-no-ike 九の字の池 | "Pond (shaped like the) character 九," one type of garden pond. It is described in the garden manual Hihon sakuteiden… |
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| kurama-ishi 鞍馬石 | ✓ | Lit. Kurama stone. A type of granite quarried in the Mt. Kurama 鞍馬 area north of Kyoto. Light brown in color and of fine… |
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| kuruma-ido 車井戸 | Lit. pulley well. A general term for wells in which the water is drawn by a bucket and rope attached to a pulley. This… |
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| kusen hakkai-ishi 九山八海石 | Lit. stone(s) from the nine mountains and eight seas. A single stone or group of stones placed around another stone meant to… |
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| kyōchi 境致 | Natural scenery of a particular place; environment. Whenever possible, temples of the Zen 禅 sect during the medieval period… |
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| maguro-ishi 真黒石 | ✓ | Lit. "deep black stones." A generic name for black stones found in the Nachi 那智 area of Wakayama prefecture and the Kamo 鴨… |
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| mamemaki-ishi 豆撒石 | Lit. "thrown bean stones." A poetic name for a seemingly random arrangement of stepping stones *… |
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| mazegaki 交垣 | Lit. "mixed hedge." One type of *ikegaki 生垣 (living fence) in which two or… |
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| mesekigaki 目狭垣 | A type of bamboo-ear gate takehogaki 竹穂垣 used for projecting fences *sodegaki… |
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| migaki-ishi 磨石 | Lit. "polished stone." A vague term which means any stone which is highly finished or polished, but may also refer to the… |
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| mikage-ishi 御影石 | A generic name for granite kakōgan 花崗岩, the term originally meant granite quarried in the Mikage 御影 district in the… |
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| mino kenninjigaki 簑建仁寺垣 | Also written 蓑建仁寺垣. Also called takehogaki 竹穂垣. A variation of the bamboo fence *… |
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| misugaki 御簾垣 | Also sudaregaki 簾垣. A bamboo fence made of various kinds of slender bamboo strips that are set horizontally and… |
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| mitatemono chōzubachi 見立物手水鉢 | Lit. "re-used-object water basins." A type of water basin *chōzubachi… |
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| mizuana 水穴 | Lit. "water hole." The hollowed-out space on the top face of a water basin *… |
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| mizubune 水船 | Lit. "water boat." A type of large boat-shaped stone used for water basins *mitatemono… |
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| modorieda 戻り枝 | Lit. "returning branch." A tree branch which, naturally or by training, turns abruptly downward. The dramatic nature of the… |
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| mokukasan 木仮山 | A somewhat ambiguous term meaning landscape. Because the curving root of a tree, moku 木, was thought to resemble… |
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| mondai-ishi 問台石 | Lit. "gate foundation stones." A large, flat stepping stone *yaku-ishi 役石… |
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| monkaburi 門冠 | Lit. "gate crowning." A tree planted by a garden gate so that its branches extend over the gate. In some cases the branches… |
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| mori 杜 | Woods. The sacred grove of trees planted in front of a shrine by a landscape designer. |
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| Musōryū chitei 夢窓流治庭 | Lit. "Corrective on Gardens of the Musō Lineage." A late Edo period treatise on landscape gardening. According to the… |
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