| 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… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| 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 … |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| 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. |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| kuroki torii 黒木鳥居 | The simplest type of Shinto gate *torii 鳥居 belonging to the … |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| yasaka-zukuri 八坂造 | Also *yasaka-zukuri 祇園造. A style of shrine architecture which began in the… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| yashiro 社 | 1 A Shinto shrine. 2 In very ancient times before permanent buildings were erected… |
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| yōhaiden 遥拝殿 | In ancient times called fukukai 伏拝; ippukuhai 一伏拝. The worship of a god that is enshrined at a distant… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| yokohaiden 横拝殿 | ✓ | A long, rectangular worship hall at a Shinto shrine with entrances on the front and rear sides parallel to the ridge. The… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| yūitsu shinmei zukuri 唯一神明造 | Lit. "the unique shinmei style." A style of Shinto Shrine architecture characterized by the main sanctuaries *… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| yuniwa 斎庭 | Also *saijō 斎場. A place to perform purification rituals and to worship the… |
Architecture, Shrines |
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