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kamadodono 竈殿 Sometimes also kamamiya 釜宮. Also read hettsuidono. A building with a hearth or cooking stove. Often a stove may be placed… Architecture, Shrines
kamadono 釜殿

Also pronounced kanaedono, kamaden. A synonym for *kamaya 釜屋…

Architecture, Shrines
kandachi 神館 A place for Shinto purification rites, as well as a place for priests to go into seclusion for a set amount of time.
Architecture, Shrines
karahafu torii 唐破風不鳥居 ✓

A unique Shinto gate *torii 鳥居 in Kyoto, called Itsukushima…

Architecture, Shrines
kariden 仮殿 Also karidono. A temporary shrine building to which a deity is transferred while the main sanctuary *… Architecture, Shrines
kasagi 笠木

Also written 葢木 or 衡木; also *kabuki 冠木.



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Architecture, Shrines
kashigidono 炊殿

Also mikashigidono 御炊殿



1 The special kitchen at Shinto shrines where rice to be…

Architecture, Shrines
kashii-zukuri 香椎造

A style of building used for the sanctuary *honden 本殿, at a…

Architecture, Shrines
kashima torii 鹿島鳥居 ✓

Shinmei type pillars *shinmei torii 神明鳥居,…

Architecture, Shrines
kasuga torii 春日鳥居 ✓

A shinmei type of shrine gate *shinmeitorii 神明鳥居. The two…

Architecture, Shrines
kasuga-zukuri 春日造

A style of shrine architecture employed in main sanctuaries *honden …

Architecture, Shrines
katsuogi 堅魚木 ✓

Also written 鰹木, 勝男木, 葛緒木. Also called kasoegi 斗木. Wooden billets placed atop and at right angle to a roof ridge,…

Architecture, Shrines
keidaisha 境内社

A subsidiary Shinto shrine located within the precincts of the main shrine.

Architecture, Shrines
keigaisha 境外社

A subsidiary Shinto shrine located outside the precincts of the main shrine. It may be near the precinct boundaries or at a…

Architecture, Shrines
kibitsu-zukuri 吉備津造 ✓

Also kibi-zukuri 吉備造 and *hiyoku irimoya-zukuri 比翼入母屋造. A…

Architecture, Shrines
kō-ita 甲板

A long thick horizontal board placed at the apex of a roof as a cover to protect the uppermost ridge. The board is used…

Architecture, Shrines
kuroki torii 黒木鳥居

The simplest type of Shinto gate *torii 鳥居 belonging to the …

Architecture, Shrines
maidono 舞殿 ✓

Also read maiden. Also kaguradono, kaguraden 神楽殿 or kagura 神楽. Lit. "dance hall."…

Architecture, Shrines
massha 末社

One or many small subsidiary Shinto shrines belonging to a main shrine. If the buildings are located within the precincts of…

Architecture, Shrines
mihashira torii 三柱鳥居

Also read mitsubashira torii or called sankakutorii 三角鳥居. A gate-like structure *…

Architecture, Shrines
miho-zukuri 美保造 ✓

A style of architecture found at Miho Jinja 美保神社 in Shimane Prefecture. Two shrine buildings in the taisha style *…

Architecture, Shrines
mikeden 御饌殿

Also pronounced mikedono. A daily offering hall at a shrine. The most important example is in the northeast corner…

Architecture, Shrines
mikoshiyadori 神輿舎 ✓

Also written 神輿宿. Also mikoshigura 神輿倉, or shin'yoko 神輿庫. A storehouse for a portable shrine *…

Architecture, Shrines
mikuri 御厨

Also pronounced mikuriya. A building or kitchen where food and drink are prepared to offer to the gods. For…

Architecture, Shrines
misedana-zukuri 見世棚造 ✓

Also written 店棚造. Also dashimise-zukuri 出し店造. A very small shrine building, one bay wide, within the precincts of a…

Architecture, Shrines
mitarashi 御手洗 ✓

A place to one side of the approach to a Shinto shrine where visitors perform purification rites, including rinsing the…

Architecture, Shrines
mitosai 御戸祭

One of the ceremonies performed at the time of shrine construction when the doors of the main shrine building are hung. At…

Architecture, Shrines
miwa torii 三輪鳥居 ✓

Also called mitsutorii 三鳥居 or sankō torii 三光鳥居. An entrance gate to a Shinto shrine comprised of three…

Architecture, Shrines
mizugaki 瑞垣 ✓

Also written 籬垣, 水垣. A fence. Originally, mizugaki referred to a fence composed of trees surrounding a forest or…

Architecture, Shrines
mokedono 儲殿

A temporary building for housing the deity at Ise Jingū 伊勢神宮, during the Heian and Kamakura periods. During the rebuilding…

Architecture, Shrines
mukō-zukuri 向造

Also pronounced mukai-zukuri. A style used for the main building *honden…

Architecture, Shrines
myōjin torii 明神鳥居 ✓

A pillared gate-like entrance to a Shinto shrine, developed around the 9th century. The most common type of shrine entrance…

Architecture, Shrines

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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