| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| maidono 舞殿 | ✓ | Also read maiden. Also kaguradono, kaguraden 神楽殿 or kagura 神楽. Lit. "dance hall."… |
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| massha 末社 | One or many small subsidiary Shinto shrines belonging to a main shrine. If the buildings are located within the precincts of… |
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| mihashira torii 三柱鳥居 | Also read mitsubashira torii or called sankakutorii 三角鳥居. A gate-like structure *… |
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| miho-zukuri 美保造 | ✓ | A style of architecture found at Miho Jinja 美保神社 in Shimane Prefecture. Two shrine buildings in the taisha style *… |
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| mikeden 御饌殿 | Also pronounced mikedono. A daily offering hall at a shrine. The most important example is in the northeast corner… |
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| mikoshiyadori 神輿舎 | ✓ | Also written 神輿宿. Also mikoshigura 神輿倉, or shin'yoko 神輿庫. A storehouse for a portable shrine *… |
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| mikuri 御厨 | Also pronounced mikuriya. A building or kitchen where food and drink are prepared to offer to the gods. For… |
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| misedana-zukuri 見世棚造 | ✓ | Also written 店棚造. Also dashimise-zukuri 出し店造. A very small shrine building, one bay wide, within the precincts of a… |
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| mitarashi 御手洗 | ✓ | A place to one side of the approach to a Shinto shrine where visitors perform purification rites, including rinsing the… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| mitosai 御戸祭 | One of the ceremonies performed at the time of shrine construction when the doors of the main shrine building are hung. At… |
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| miwa torii 三輪鳥居 | ✓ | Also called mitsutorii 三鳥居 or sankō torii 三光鳥居. An entrance gate to a Shinto shrine comprised of three… |
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| mizugaki 瑞垣 | ✓ | Also written 籬垣, 水垣. A fence. Originally, mizugaki referred to a fence composed of trees surrounding a forest or… |
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| mokedono 儲殿 | A temporary building for housing the deity at Ise Jingū 伊勢神宮, during the Heian and Kamakura periods. During the rebuilding… |
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| mukō-zukuri 向造 | Also pronounced mukai-zukuri. A style used for the main building *honden… |
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| myōjin torii 明神鳥居 | ✓ | A pillared gate-like entrance to a Shinto shrine, developed around the 9th century. The most common type of shrine entrance… |
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| saijō 斎場 | 1 An area temporarily purified to erect temporary buildings and facilities for performing the *… |
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| saikan 斎館 | Also *kandachi 神館, shinkan 神館. |
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| sakadono 酒殿 | ✓ | Also misakedono 御酒殿; the prefix mi 御 is an honorific. |
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| sanja-zukuri 三社造 | Also called sangenyashiro or sangensha 三間社. A type of Shinto shrine. The main building *… |
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| sannō torii 山王鳥居 | ✓ | Also called hie torii 日吉鳥居, sōgō torii 総合鳥居, hafu torii 破風鳥居 or gasshō torii 合掌鳥居.… |
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| sanrōsho 山籠所 | Lit. "a place to go into seclusion." A shrine or temple where priests or laymen can retire alone to pray. However, special… |
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| seihōkei haiden 正方形拝殿 | Square worship hall. A type of worship hall at a Shinto shrine. The 3 × 3 bay hall is believed to have been derived from a… |
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| sengen-zukuri 浅間造 | A style of architecture exemplified by the 2-storied worship hall *haiden 拝殿 at… |
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| senzasai 遷座祭 | A festival held for a building that is to be dismantled and rebuilt, or undergo major repairs. Before construction begins,… |
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| sessha 摂社 | ✓ | A Shinto shrine, second in rank and size to the main shrine honsha 本社, but having a status higher than the *… |
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| shake 社家 | Also shashike 社司家 or shakeshū 社家衆. |
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| shamusho 社務所 | A group of administrative and sometimes commercial buildings at a Shinto shrine. In ancient times, each shrine was… |
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| shichimen-zukuri 七面造 | A style of Shinto shrine architecture originating in the Edo period, similar to the sengen style *… |
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| shikinen sengū 式年遷宮 | The transfer of a deity, goshintai 御神体, from a permanent building to a temporary one *… |
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| shimaki 島木 | 1 The secondary or collateral lintel placed against the underside of the top lintel *… |
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| shimaki torii 島木鳥居 | An expression used to refer to any entrance gate at a Shinto shrine *torii 鳥居… |
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| shin-no-mihashira 心の御柱 | Also called shin-no-hashira 心の柱, imibashira 忌柱 or 斎柱, or shin-no-mihashira 真の御柱. Non-structural,… |
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| shinkyū 神厩 | ✓ | A special stable to house the sacred horse offered to a shrine by the imperial family or a nobleman. The most famous is that… |
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| shinmei torii 神明鳥居 | ✓ | Also futabashira torii 二柱鳥居. A generic name for a Shinto gate *torii… |
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| shinmei-zukuri 神明造 | ✓ | An ancient style of Shinto shrine architecture used especially for the main sanctuary *… |
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| shinmon 神門 | ✓ | Lit. "deity gate." Any type of gate found at a shrine, excluding the gate-like entrance to the sacred ground of a Shinto… |
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| shinpukuden 神服殿 | A Shinto shrine building where winter and summer clothing are sewn and offered to the deities. Some scholars believe that… |
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| shinsenjo 神饌所 | Also called gokūsho 供御所 or goryōya 御料屋; also nieden or niedono 贄殿. The place where… |
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| shiromaruta torii 白丸太鳥居 | Also goryō torii 御陵鳥居, shiroki torii 白木鳥居 or *shimaki torii… |
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| shitakado 下角 | 1 The lower corners of any beam cut at an angle. |
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| shitennōji torii 四天王寺鳥居 | A stone entrance gate *torii 鳥居 of the myōjin type *… |
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| sōja 総社 | Also written 惣社. Also pronounced sōsha or subeyashiro. A shrine that contains many deities, which may… |
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| sumiyoshi torii 住吉鳥居 | A stone gate-like entrance, torii of the myōjin type *myōjin… |
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| sumiyoshi-zukuri 住吉造 | A style of main sanctuary *honden 本殿 in Shinto shrine… |
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