| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| maidono 舞殿 | ✓ | Also read maiden. Also kaguradono, kaguraden 神楽殿 or kagura 神楽. Lit. "dance hall."… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| 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 *… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| 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 *… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| 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 *… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| 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… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| 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… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| mizugaki 瑞垣 | ✓ | Also written 籬垣, 水垣. A fence. Originally, mizugaki referred to a fence composed of trees surrounding a forest or… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| 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… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| taisha-zukuri 大社造 | ✓ | Also called ōyashiro-zukuri. The oldest style of shrine architecture. Its small scale is thought to resemble that… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| tasukizumi 襷墨 | ✓ | A diagonal line. A word applied to structural members used in the modular system kikujutsu 規矩術. Specifically, this… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| tatehaiden 縦拝殿 | ✓ | A type of worship hall *haiden 拝殿 which is attached to the main… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| teinaisha 邸内社 | Also dainaisha 第内社. A shrine within the estate or premises teinai 邸内 of a nobleman. The mansion, … |
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| tenchi kongen-zukuri 天地根元造 | 1 A prehistoric pit dwelling *tateana jūkyo … |
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| torii 鳥居 | Also written 鳥栖; 鶏栖. Lit. "bird perch." At one time, torii were called uefukazu-no-mikado or… |
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| toriimon 鳥居門 | Lit. "bird perch gate." A shrine gate with a board fence attached to the outer part of each of the two pillars. A *… |
Architecture, Shrines |
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