| 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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| saijō 斎場 | 1 An area temporarily purified to erect temporary buildings and facilities for performing the *… |
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| saikan 斎館 | Also *kandachi 神館, shinkan 神館. |
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| sakadono 酒殿 | ✓ | Also misakedono 御酒殿; the prefix mi 御 is an honorific. |
Architecture, Shrines |
| sanja-zukuri 三社造 | Also called sangenyashiro or sangensha 三間社. A type of Shinto shrine. The main building *… |
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| sannō torii 山王鳥居 | ✓ | Also called hie torii 日吉鳥居, sōgō torii 総合鳥居, hafu torii 破風鳥居 or gasshō torii 合掌鳥居.… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| sanrōsho 山籠所 | Lit. "a place to go into seclusion." A shrine or temple where priests or laymen can retire alone to pray. However, special… |
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| seihōkei haiden 正方形拝殿 | Square worship hall. A type of worship hall at a Shinto shrine. The 3 × 3 bay hall is believed to have been derived from a… |
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| sengen-zukuri 浅間造 | A style of architecture exemplified by the 2-storied worship hall *haiden 拝殿 at… |
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| senzasai 遷座祭 | A festival held for a building that is to be dismantled and rebuilt, or undergo major repairs. Before construction begins,… |
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| sessha 摂社 | ✓ | A Shinto shrine, second in rank and size to the main shrine honsha 本社, but having a status higher than the *… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| shake 社家 | Also shashike 社司家 or shakeshū 社家衆. |
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| shamusho 社務所 | A group of administrative and sometimes commercial buildings at a Shinto shrine. In ancient times, each shrine was… |
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| shichimen-zukuri 七面造 | A style of Shinto shrine architecture originating in the Edo period, similar to the sengen style *… |
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| shikinen sengū 式年遷宮 | The transfer of a deity, goshintai 御神体, from a permanent building to a temporary one *… |
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| shimaki 島木 | 1 The secondary or collateral lintel placed against the underside of the top lintel *… |
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| shimaki torii 島木鳥居 | An expression used to refer to any entrance gate at a Shinto shrine *torii 鳥居… |
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| shin-no-mihashira 心の御柱 | Also called shin-no-hashira 心の柱, imibashira 忌柱 or 斎柱, or shin-no-mihashira 真の御柱. Non-structural,… |
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| shinkyū 神厩 | ✓ | A special stable to house the sacred horse offered to a shrine by the imperial family or a nobleman. The most famous is that… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| shinmei torii 神明鳥居 | ✓ | Also futabashira torii 二柱鳥居. A generic name for a Shinto gate *torii… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| shinmei-zukuri 神明造 | ✓ | An ancient style of Shinto shrine architecture used especially for the main sanctuary *… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| shinmon 神門 | ✓ | Lit. "deity gate." Any type of gate found at a shrine, excluding the gate-like entrance to the sacred ground of a Shinto… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| shinpukuden 神服殿 | A Shinto shrine building where winter and summer clothing are sewn and offered to the deities. Some scholars believe that… |
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| shinsenjo 神饌所 | Also called gokūsho 供御所 or goryōya 御料屋; also nieden or niedono 贄殿. The place where… |
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| shiromaruta torii 白丸太鳥居 | Also goryō torii 御陵鳥居, shiroki torii 白木鳥居 or *shimaki torii… |
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| shitakado 下角 | 1 The lower corners of any beam cut at an angle. |
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| shitennōji torii 四天王寺鳥居 | A stone entrance gate *torii 鳥居 of the myōjin type *… |
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| sōja 総社 | Also written 惣社. Also pronounced sōsha or subeyashiro. A shrine that contains many deities, which may… |
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| sumiyoshi torii 住吉鳥居 | A stone gate-like entrance, torii of the myōjin type *myōjin… |
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| sumiyoshi-zukuri 住吉造 | A style of main sanctuary *honden 本殿 in Shinto shrine… |
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