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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 …

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
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…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
kaidan 戒壇 A platform or dais used for the Buddhist ordination ceremony.
Architecture, Buildings, Structures
kairō 回廊 ✓

Also written 廻廊; also called bu 廡, sōrō 走廊 or *horō 歩廊. Single-…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
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…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
kaisantō 開山塔

Lit. founder's pagoda. A rare type of wooden pagoda *hōtō 宝塔, constructed…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
kaisho 会所

1 A meeting place. Originally specified as a place in a shinden style mansion *…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
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…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
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…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
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…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
kannondō 観音堂 ✓

A Buddhist temple hall dedicated to the Goddess of Mercy *Kannon 観音. Fukushima…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
kansuryō 監寺寮

One of the administration offices within the priests' living quarters *kuri 庫裡,…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
kasatōba 笠塔婆 ✓

Also called kasasotōba 笠卒都婆. A memorial or grave stone. The most common has a square shaft *…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
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…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
kōdō 講堂

1 Lecture hall in a Buddhist temple. In the Nara and Heian periods, it was one of the principal buildings…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
kōfūzō 綱封蔵 ✓

Also called *narabigura 双倉 or twin storehouses. A large…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
kondō 金堂 ✓

Lit. golden hall. The name given to the principal hall housing the most sacred images at Buddhist temples from the Asuka…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
Konjikidō 金色堂

Also called Hikaridō 光堂 or Konjikiin 金色院. Lit. Gold colored hall. A small Buddhist edifice at…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
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…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
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…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
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…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
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…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures

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JAANUS is the on-line Dictionary of Japanese Architectural and Art Historical Terminology compiled by Dr. Mary Neighbour Parent.

Originally built by the Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation, it is now hosted and maintained by the Media Center for Art History at Columbia University