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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 *…

Architecture, Gardens
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 *…

Architecture, Gardens
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
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…

Architecture, Gardens
rinsen 林泉

Lit. "forest and stream."
The ancient word for garden. Rinsen first appeared in the 720 Nihon shoki…

Architecture, Gardens
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…

Architecture, Gardens
ryōtei 涼亭

A summer house, arbor or pavilion that provided a cool resting place in a garden.

Architecture, Gardens
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…

Architecture, Gardens
ryūmonbaku 竜門瀑

Lit. "dragon's gate cascade." One type of cascade *baku 瀑 found in Japanese…

Architecture, Gardens
ryūsui kanshōshiki teien 流水観賞式庭園

Lit. "flowing water appreciation style garden."
A general term used to designate any garden focused around a stream.…

Architecture, Gardens
ryūsuishiki chisen 流水式池泉

Lit. "flowing water style of pond and stream."
A type of water feature in a garden that includes a curving water course.…

Architecture, Gardens

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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