| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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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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| kashigidono 炊殿 | Also mikashigidono 御炊殿
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| kashii-zukuri 香椎造 | A style of building used for the sanctuary *honden 本殿, at a… |
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| 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 … |
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| 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. |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| kuroki torii 黒木鳥居 | The simplest type of Shinto gate *torii 鳥居 belonging to the … |
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| 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… |
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| mihashira torii 三柱鳥居 | Also read mitsubashira torii or called sankakutorii 三角鳥居. A gate-like structure *… |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| mukō-zukuri 向造 | Also pronounced mukai-zukuri. A style used for the main building *honden… |
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| 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… |
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