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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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| tahōtō 多宝塔 | ✓ | A 2-storied pagoda that developed from the circular, roofed one called *hōtō 宝塔… |
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| taibō 大房 | Also pronounced daibō. A large room 6.7 m wide and 12.7 m deep, constructed in a style customary from about the mid… |
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| taishidō 太子堂 | A hall either dedicated to Shōtoku Taishi 聖徳太子 (ca. 574-622), the second son of Emperor Yōmei 用明 (r. 585-87), or a building… |
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| tanrō 単廊 | A single corridor that is 182 cm wide, commonly found in temples. Some shrines have double corridors *… |
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| tasōtō 多層塔 | ✓ | Also called tajūtō 多重塔. A generic term for pagodas that are from three to thirteen stories. An even number of… |
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| tatchū 塔頭 | Also written 塔中. A simple building containing a pagoda that enshrined the ashes of a founder or head priest of a Zen 禅… |
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| Tatekaketō 建掛塔 | Lit. "under construction pagoda." A pagoda at Kanshinji 観心寺 in Osaka that has only its first story. Kusunoki Masashige 楠木正成… |
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| tō 塔 | Also called tōba 塔婆, sotoba 卒都婆 or *tasōtō 多層塔 (many-layered… |
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| Tōgudō 東求堂 | Lit. "east seeking hall." A small building at Jishōji 慈照寺, also popularly known as Ginkakuji 銀閣寺 (1485), Kyoto, built by… |
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| tōkondō 東金堂 | Also originally called higashi butsuden'in 東仏殿院. A worship hall placed to the east of the pagoda *… |
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| tōshin 塔身 | The framework of a pagoda *tō 塔, excluding the roof *… |
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| tōsu 東司 | ✓ | Also read tōshi. Originally tōsu was the god of the latrine who was also called fujō kongō… |
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| tōtō 東塔 | Lit. "east pagoda." A pagoda located toward the front and on the east side of a temple's precinct grounds. When there are… |
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| tsujidō 辻堂 | Lit. "cross roads hall." A small Buddhist structure erected at the main intersection of a village, along a village road, or… |
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| Tsumamuro 妻室 | ✓ | The dormitory for ordinary attendant monks at Hōryūji 法隆寺 in Nara. The present Tsumamuro was constructed in the Heian period… |
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