| 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… |
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| mitatemono chōzubachi 見立物手水鉢 | Lit. "re-used-object water basins." A type of water basin *chōzubachi… |
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| 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… |
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| modorieda 戻り枝 | Lit. "returning branch." A tree branch which, naturally or by training, turns abruptly downward. The dramatic nature of the… |
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| mokukasan 木仮山 | A somewhat ambiguous term meaning landscape. Because the curving root of a tree, moku 木, was thought to resemble… |
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| 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… |
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| mori 杜 | Woods. The sacred grove of trees planted in front of a shrine by a landscape designer. |
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| 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 | |
| rigyoseki 鯉魚石 | ✓ | Lit. "carp stone." A stone placed at the base of a waterfall to symbolize a carp swimming up the waterfall. Good examples… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| Rikyūgaki 利休垣 | A fence made of bamboo stakes that alternate with unpeeled wooden stakes. The bamboo and unpeeled stakes have the same… |
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| rinsen 林泉 | Lit. "forest and stream." |
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| ryōanjigaki 龍安寺垣 | ✓ | A type of bamboo fence used at Ryōanji 龍安寺, a Zen temple in Kyoto. It is characterized by thick split bamboo that cross… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| ryōmengaki 両面垣 | Also ryōmegaki 両目垣. An interlocking bamboo fence. Bamboo, about 3 cm in diameter, are cut in half vertically and… |
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| ryōtei 涼亭 | A summer house, arbor or pavilion that provided a cool resting place in a garden. |
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| ryūchishiki teien 竜池式庭園 | Lit. "dragon pond style." A type of garden featuring a sharply curving pond reminiscent of a dragon's serpentine body. Good… |
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| ryūmonbaku 竜門瀑 | Lit. "dragon's gate cascade." One type of cascade *baku 瀑 found in Japanese… |
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| ryūsui kanshōshiki teien 流水観賞式庭園 | Lit. "flowing water appreciation style garden." |
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| ryūsuishiki chisen 流水式池泉 | Lit. "flowing water style of pond and stream." |
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