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| kagariya 篝屋 | Guardhouses for soldiers placed at street corners in Kyoto and Kamakura during the Kamakura period. The earliest known … |
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| kaidan'in 戒壇院 | ✓ | A Tendai 天台 sect building that contains an ordination platform used exclusively for the ceremony to impart the Buddhist… |
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| kaidan 戒壇 | A platform or dais used for the Buddhist ordination ceremony. |
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| kairō 回廊 | ✓ | Also written 廻廊; also called bu 廡, sōrō 走廊 or *horō 歩廊. Single-… |
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| kaisandō 開山堂 | ✓ | A hall that enshrines a statue, portrait or memorial tablet of the founder of a temple or the founder of a particular… |
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| kaisantō 開山塔 | Lit. founder's pagoda. A rare type of wooden pagoda *hōtō 宝塔, constructed… |
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| kaisho 会所 | 1 A meeting place. Originally specified as a place in a shinden style mansion *… |
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| Kami-no-midō 上御堂 | Lit. Upper honorable hall. A Buddhist image hall at Hōryūji 法隆寺 (1318) in Nara, rebuilt long after the original hall, built… |
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| Kangakuin 勧学院 | Also omotemon 表門. The front gate of Shūgenji 宗源寺 a subsidiary temple of Hōryūji 法隆寺. It serves as a place for study… |
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| kanjōdō 潅頂堂 | Also called kanjōin 潅頂院. The hall used to conduct the ceremony to confer the basic precepts and mystic teachings of… |
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| kannondō 観音堂 | ✓ | A Buddhist temple hall dedicated to the Goddess of Mercy *Kannon 観音. Fukushima… |
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| kansuryō 監寺寮 | One of the administration offices within the priests' living quarters *kuri 庫裡,… |
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| kasatōba 笠塔婆 | ✓ | Also called kasasotōba 笠卒都婆. A memorial or grave stone. The most common has a square shaft *… |
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| Keikyūin 桂宮院 | Lit. cinnamon hall. An octagonal main hall, Hondō 本堂, of the subsidiary temple, Keikyūin at Kōryūji 広隆寺 (1251… |
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| kōdō 講堂 | 1 Lecture hall in a Buddhist temple. In the Nara and Heian periods, it was one of the principal buildings… |
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| kōfūzō 綱封蔵 | ✓ | Also called *narabigura 双倉 or twin storehouses. A large… |
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| kondō 金堂 | ✓ | Lit. golden hall. The name given to the principal hall housing the most sacred images at Buddhist temples from the Asuka… |
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| Konjikidō 金色堂 | Also called Hikaridō 光堂 or Konjikiin 金色院. Lit. Gold colored hall. A small Buddhist edifice at… |
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| Konpon chūdō 根本中堂 | Lit. original central hall. The main hall, Kondō 金堂 of Enryakuji 延暦寺 (1640), Shiga Prefecture. A large single storied… |
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| konrō 軒廊 | Lit. eave corridor. A roofed corridor with open sides. A connecting corridor between two buildings. |
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| korō 鼓楼 | ✓ | A small, two-storied structure *rō-zukuri 楼造, in which a drum is suspended in… |
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| kui 杭 | Also kigui 木杭. Pile. A wooden stake or post driven into the ground. Closely placed round wooden posts, often shaved… |
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| kujū-no-tō 九重塔 | Also pronounced kyūjū-no-tō. A 9-storied pagoda. Kudaradaiji 百済大寺 (6th-7th century) in Nara, and Hōshōji 法勝寺 (Heian… |
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| kunisakitō 国東塔 | A single-storied, circular pagoda with a pyramidal roof. A type of *hōtō… |
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| kuri 庫裡 | 1 Aiso written 庫裏. A structure in the precincts of a temple originally associated primarily with food… |
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| kurodo-no-gosho 黒戸の御所 | Also abbreviated to kurodo 黒戸. Lit. black door of the palace. A long narrow structure that was used for private… |
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| kuyōtō 供養塔 | A memorial pagoda, for which there is no particular shape or size. Kuyōtō is an offering of worldly goods such… |
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| kyakuden 客殿 | Lit. guest hall. A building constructed in one of three residential styles: *shoin-… |
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| kyōzō 経蔵 | ✓ | Also called kyōko 経庫, kyōdō 経堂, zōden 蔵殿. A repository and storehouse for sutras, or sacred books… |
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| Saiendō 西円堂 | ✓ | An octagonal hall at Hōryūji 法隆寺, Nara, which was destroyed by a typhoon in 1050. The structure was rebuilt in 1250. It is… |
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| saikondō 西金堂 | An image hall *kondō 金堂 situated to the west of a pagoda in temple grounds.… |
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| sangen-ikko 三間一戸 | ✓ | A 3 x 2 bay gate, often 8-legged style *hakkyakumon 八脚門, with entrance… |
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| sangendō 三間堂 | ✓ | A building with 3 bays on all four sides, commonly written 3 × 3 bays. The result is usually a square building. However,… |
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| sanjū-no-tō 三重塔 | Three-storied pagodas, most of which are made of wood, but a small percentage are made of stone. See *… |
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| sanmaidō 三昧堂 | Also called nenbutsu sanmaidō 念仏三昧堂. Nenbutsu 念仏 prayers are recited, to obtain unity with *… |
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| sanmen sōbō 三面僧房 | Priest and monk dormitories constructed to the north, east and west of the lecture hall *… |
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| sanrō 山廊 | ✓ | Also kirō 機廊. Small, single-storied, detached buildings on temple grounds constructed on each side of a two-… |
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| sayadō 鞘堂 | Also ōidō 覆堂, ōiya 覆屋 or tōdō 套堂. Lit. "sheath hall." A building constructed over a shrine or… |
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| sazaedō 栄螺堂 | ✓ | Also called sansōdō or sasaidō 三匝堂. An hexagonal Buddhist hall constructed with two internal, circuitous… |
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| sekidō 石幢 | Lit. "stone flag." A type of stone pagoda with a hexagonal or octagonal base, a banner-shaped shaft, dōshin 幢身, a… |
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| sekitō 石塔 | ✓ | Also read ishitō. A generic term for pagodas or stupas made of stone. It includes multiple-storied stone pagodas… |
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| sen-in 賤院 | Also written 賎院. The quarters where the lowliest serfs lived in a Buddhist temple. In ancient Japan, these people were… |
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| shakadō 釈迦堂 | ✓ | A hall in which a statue of the historical Buddha *Shaka 釈迦, born in either the mid-6th or mid-… |
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| shariden 舎利殿 | ✓ | A square reliquary hall, used to enshrine the relics of Buddha, called *shari 舎利… |
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| sharitō 舎利塔 | A stupa-shaped container for relics *shari 舎利 that may itself be set within a small shrine … |
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| shi-in 子院 | A subsidiary temple belonging to the main temple and serving as the founder's mausoleum. This arrangement is most frequently… |
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| shichidō garan 七堂伽藍 | The seven principal buildings considered necessary for a Buddhist temple from the 7-12th century. They include: the main… |
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| shidō 祠堂 | A mortuary hall. One example is the rear part of the *Kaisandō 開山堂 at Eihōji… |
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| shindō 新堂 | Lit. "new hall." Several of Japan's temple complexes include a building known as shindō. One of the most famous is… |
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| Shingon-in 真言院 | Also called Shingondō 真言堂, Shūhōin 修法院 or Mandara dōjō 曼荼羅道場. Lit. "the mantra hall." A hall… |
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| shisōbō 私僧房 | A private residence for high-ranking priests within the confines of a Buddhist temple. During the Heian period, this type of… |
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| shitagoya 下小屋 | A temporary shed used by carpenters, stone masons, and plasterers to prepare structural members for a building. Often parts… |
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| shōden 正殿 | Also pronounced seiden. |
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| shōdō 正堂 | Also seidō. |
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| shōrō 鐘楼 | ✓ | Also called shūrō; kanetsukidō 鐘突堂, lit. "bell hitting hall"; and tsuriganedō 釣鐘堂, belfry. A… |
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| Shōryōin 聖霊院 | ✓ | A hall dedicated to the soul of Shōtoku Taishi (see *Shōtoku Taishi-zō 聖徳太子像) at… |
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| Shōsōin 正倉院 | Also called Sōen-in 倉垣院. A treasure storehouse *hōko 宝庫 with a raised floor at… |
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| sōbō 僧房 | ✓ | Also written 僧坊. Buddhist priests', monks' or nuns' living quarters in the 7th-8th century. One of the seven buildings… |
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| sōdō 僧堂 | A large hall at a Zen temple. It was divided into two parts. The front part, called the *… |
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| soshidō 祖師堂 | A hall dedicated to the founder of a temple, especially at Zen 禅 temples. |
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| sōtō 層塔 | A generic name for a pagoda (Sk: stupa) which has several roofs. Invariably they have an odd number of roofs. Most… |
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