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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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| Sakuteiki 作庭記 | Lit. "Treatise on Garden Making." The oldest and most revered Japanese text on garden design, it was probably… |
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| sandandaki 三段滝 | Lit. "three-stage waterfall." One common type of garden waterfall. Through the arrangement of earth and rocks, the waterfall… |
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| sanzon iwagumi 三尊石組 | Lit. "Buddhist triad stone arrangement." The grouping of one large stone with two smaller flanking stones that lean toward… |
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| sasagaki 笹垣 | Lit. "bamboo grass fence." A living fence or hedge made of low-growing, bamboo grass called kumazasa 熊笹, and… |
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| sawatobi 沢飛 | ✓ | Lit. "marsh crossing." A path made of stepping stones *tobi-ishi 飛石 placed in… |
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| sekkaigan 石灰岩 | Limestone. A type of rock rarely used in gardens because of its soft and transient nature, although it was employed as a… |
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| senryokugan 閃緑岩 | Lit. "glittering green stone." A type of stone similar to granite but containing black granules. Often containing small… |
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| sensui 泉水 | Lit. "spring water." Originally the term referred to spring water running through a garden. In Kyoto, a number of… |
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| shakkei 借景 | Lit. "borrowed scenery." The method of incorporating a distant vista into the composition of a garden. A river, the ocean,… |
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| shibagaki 柴垣 | ✓ | Also read shibakaki. A very old type of brushwood fencing, originally called fushigaki 布斯垣. Many… |
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| shibaonkōgata chōzubachi 司馬温公形手水鉢 | Lit. "Sima Yungong type." One style of natural stone water basin *… |
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| shibayama chōzubachi 芝山手水鉢 | Lit. "brushwood mountain." A type of rustic water basin *chōzubachi… |
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| shichigosanshiki teien 七五三式庭園 | Also called shichigosan ishigumi 七五三石組 Lit. "seven-five-three-style garden." The arrangement of 15 stones or pruned… |
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| shiden-zukuri teien 寝殿造庭園 | Lit. "shinden-style garden." The quintessential Heian period garden that was built in the central courtyard of… |
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| shiguregaki 時雨垣 | Lit. "drizzle fence." A type of fence in which bunches of bamboo and bush clover are secured by the top bar of a fence so as… |
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| shihōbutsu chōzubachi 四方仏手水鉢 | Lit. "Buddhas of the four directions water basin." A type of water basin made from reused objects *… |
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| shikyakuseki-no-kumikata 枝脚石の組み方 | Lit. "arrangement of branch and leg stones." One way to arrange the five types of trump stones known as *… |
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| shin-no-yotsumegaki 真の四目垣 | A garden fence with penetrating ties *nuki 貫 that run horizontally from one… |
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| shinamoji 品文字 | A grouping of three stones, carefully balanced to resemble the character shina 品. The stone arrangement is… |
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| shinsenboku 神仙木 | Lit. "tree of immortals." A tree associated with Mt. Penglai *Hōraisan 蓬莱山,… |
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| shirakawa-ishi 白川石 | Lit. "shirakawa stone." A type of granite quarried from the Shirakawa 白川 area north of Kyoto. Soft and easily… |
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| shitennō-seki 四天王石 | Lit. "four guardian kings stones." Four stones placed in each corner of a garden. The stones serve the same apotropaic… |
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| shitennōju 四天王樹 | Lit. "four guardian king trees." A poetic title referring to the maiden-hair or gingko ichō 銀杏, camphor … |
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| shizenseki chōzubachi 自然石手水鉢 | Lit. "natural stone water basins." A generic name for a water basin *chōzubachi… |
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| shizenseki ishibashi 自然石石橋 | Lit. "natural stone bridge." A type of stone bridge *ishibashi 石橋 made from… |
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| shoin niwa 書院庭 | The garden which faces or surrounds the *shoin 書院. No special features are used in shoin… |
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| shōjōseki 清浄石 | Also read seijōseki, called nozoki-ishi 覗石 or kiyome-ishi きよめ石. Lit. "pure stone." |
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| shokusai 植栽 | Lit. "plants." The various plants, trees, bushes, and flowers placed in a garden. The term also is used to refer to gardens… |
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| shōshinboku 正真木 | Meaning genuine tree. The term was coined in the middle Edo period to refer to the dominant or master tree in a garden.… |
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| shōtoku-no-taki 生得の滝 | Originally, a waterfall in nature. With the rise of dry waterfalls *karetaki… |
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| shuboku 主木 | Lit. "master tree." The tree planted on the top, front of a garden hill *tsukiyama… |
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| shugoboku 守護木 | Lit. "guardian tree." One name given to the main tree planted in the middle of a flat garden hiraniwa 平庭. The term… |
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| shukukei 縮景 | Lit. "shrunken scenery." The imitation of a famous scenic spot meisho 名所 in a garden through the creation of a… |
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| shumisenshiki iwagumi 須弥山式石組 | Lit. "Mt. Sumeru type stone arrangement." A grouping of stones which expresses Mt. Sumeru *Shumisen… |
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| shuseki 主石 | Lit. "main stone." The stone at the center of a stone arrangement *ishigumi… |
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| sodegaki 袖垣 | ✓ | Lit. "sleeve fence." A narrow fence which may serve to screen off some garden element or may be completely ornamental.… |
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| sodegata chōzubachi 袖形手水鉢 | Lit. "sleeve shape." A type of water basin *chōzubachi 手水鉢 in… |
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| soe-ishi 添石 | Lit. "accompanying stones." Stones arranged near to the main stone *shuseki 主石 of a stone… |
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| sōekigata tōrō 宗易形灯籠 | A type of six-sided lantern. The canopy is thin with half-circled bracken-shoot patterns *… |
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| sōhengaki 宗へん垣 | Lit. "Sōhen fence." A simple type of open fence named after tea master Yamada Sōhen 山田宗へん (1627-1708). Thin bamboo slats are… |
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| soribashi 反橋 | Also pronounced sorihashi. Lit. "curved bridge." A general term for an arched bridge. Soribashi include… |
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| suiboku sansuigashiki teien 水墨山水画式庭園 | Lit. "garden in the style of ink monochrome landscape painting." A modern term used for Chinese style dry gardens *… |
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| suirin 水輪 | Lit. "water ring." The spherical second story of the five-ring pagoda *gorintō… |
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| sukashigaki 透垣 | Lit. "see-through fence." A generic term for any kind of fence through which one can see. This type of open fence is used as… |
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