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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
Masomon 媽姐門 ✓

A unique gate at Sōfukuji 崇福寺 (rebuilt in 1827) in Nagasaki prefecture. The size is unusual for an eight-legged gate *…

Architecture, Gates
Minami Zuijinmon 南随神門

A gate located south of the santuary Honden 本殿 at Kibitsu Jinja 吉備津神社 in Okayama prefecture. Images of two defied loyal…

Architecture, Gates
Minamigomon 南御門 ✓

The gates on the south side of Ise Jingū 伊勢神宮. They are large eight-legged gates *…

Architecture, Gates
miyukimon 御幸門

1 A gate originally used exclusively by the emperor. It had two main pillars and…

Architecture, Gates
mon 門 ✓

Gate. Also read kado. A suffix which refers to a gate, of which there are many types. Style: the structural style…

Architecture, Gates
mukaiheijūmon 向い塀重門

A gate that has two supporting posts, sodebashira 袖柱, in front of and behind the main pillars to carry the…

Architecture, Gates
mukaikaramon 向唐門 ✓

Also often read mukōkaramon. A four-legged gate *shikyakumon…

Architecture, Gates
munamon 棟門

Also called munekado. A simple gate with two circular pillars, a gable roof *…

Architecture, Gates
udegimon 腕木門 ✓

Also called *kidomon 木戸門. A simple gate with two main posts…

Architecture, Gates
uramon 裏門 Back or rear gate. Architecture, Gates
ushiroya chūmon 後屋中門

A rear wing which extends from the main structure of a folk dwelling *minka…

Architecture, Gates, Folk Dwellings
uzumimon 埋門 ✓

Lit. "buried gate."

1 A gate constructed within the stone walls of a castle. It was used to connect…

Architecture, Gates

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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