| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| maguro-ishi 真黒石 | ✓ | Lit. "deep black stones." A generic name for black stones found in the Nachi 那智 area of Wakayama prefecture and the Kamo 鴨… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| mamemaki-ishi 豆撒石 | Lit. "thrown bean stones." A poetic name for a seemingly random arrangement of stepping stones *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| mazegaki 交垣 | Lit. "mixed hedge." One type of *ikegaki 生垣 (living fence) in which two or… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| mesekigaki 目狭垣 | A type of bamboo-ear gate takehogaki 竹穂垣 used for projecting fences *sodegaki… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| migaki-ishi 磨石 | Lit. "polished stone." A vague term which means any stone which is highly finished or polished, but may also refer to the… |
Art History, Gardens | |
| mikage-ishi 御影石 | A generic name for granite kakōgan 花崗岩, the term originally meant granite quarried in the Mikage 御影 district in the… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| mino kenninjigaki 簑建仁寺垣 | Also written 蓑建仁寺垣. Also called takehogaki 竹穂垣. A variation of the bamboo fence *… |
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| misugaki 御簾垣 | Also sudaregaki 簾垣. A bamboo fence made of various kinds of slender bamboo strips that are set horizontally and… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| mitatemono chōzubachi 見立物手水鉢 | Lit. "re-used-object water basins." A type of water basin *chōzubachi… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| mizuana 水穴 | Lit. "water hole." The hollowed-out space on the top face of a water basin *… |
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| mizubune 水船 | Lit. "water boat." A type of large boat-shaped stone used for water basins *mitatemono… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| modorieda 戻り枝 | Lit. "returning branch." A tree branch which, naturally or by training, turns abruptly downward. The dramatic nature of the… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| mokukasan 木仮山 | A somewhat ambiguous term meaning landscape. Because the curving root of a tree, moku 木, was thought to resemble… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| mondai-ishi 問台石 | Lit. "gate foundation stones." A large, flat stepping stone *yaku-ishi 役石… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| monkaburi 門冠 | Lit. "gate crowning." A tree planted by a garden gate so that its branches extend over the gate. In some cases the branches… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| mori 杜 | Woods. The sacred grove of trees planted in front of a shrine by a landscape designer. |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| Musōryū chitei 夢窓流治庭 | Lit. "Corrective on Gardens of the Musō Lineage." A late Edo period treatise on landscape gardening. According to the… |
Architecture, Gardens, Document | |
| nanako 魚々子 | ✓ | Also written 魚子, 斜子. Lit. "fish-roe." |
Art History, Architecture, Gardens, Crafts |
| nanakogaki 魚子垣 | Also urokogaki 鱗垣, gonomegaki 互の目垣. A fence made from semi-circular pieces of bamboo or metal. Bamboo… |
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| narihira sodegaki 業平袖垣 | Lit. "Narihira sleeve fence." A common type of rustic see-though sleeve fence, sukashi sodegaki 透袖垣. The frame,… |
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| nebukawa-ishi 根府川石 | Lit. "Nebukawa stone." A type of andesite found near Nebukawa 根府川 Village near Odawara 小田原 in modern Kanagawa Prefecture.… |
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| niban-ishi 二番石 | Lit. "second stone." 1 A stone placed outside a house, particularly a *… |
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| nozokibashi 覗橋 | Lit. "peeping bridge." A type of arched, wooden garden bridge that ends abruptly in the water just after beginning its… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| nozokigaki 覗垣 | Lit. "peeping fence." A type of *sodegaki 袖垣 with one or more… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| numazugaki 沼津垣 | ✓ | Also called ajirogaki 網代垣 or ajiro takegaki 網代竹垣. A type of wickerwork fence, especially popular in… |
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