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nanako 魚々子 ✓

Also written 魚子, 斜子. Lit. "fish-roe."
1 A pattern of small dots thought to resemble fish-roe, and…

Art History, Architecture, Gardens, Crafts
nanakogaki 魚子垣

Also urokogaki 鱗垣, gonomegaki 互の目垣. A fence made from semi-circular pieces of bamboo or metal. Bamboo…

Architecture, Gardens
narihira sodegaki 業平袖垣

Lit. "Narihira sleeve fence." A common type of rustic see-though sleeve fence, sukashi sodegaki 透袖垣. The frame,…

Architecture, Gardens
nebukawa-ishi 根府川石

Lit. "Nebukawa stone." A type of andesite found near Nebukawa 根府川 Village near Odawara 小田原 in modern Kanagawa Prefecture.…

Architecture, Gardens
niban-ishi 二番石

Lit. "second stone."

1 A stone placed outside a house, particularly a *…

Architecture, Gardens
nozokibashi 覗橋

Lit. "peeping bridge." A type of arched, wooden garden bridge that ends abruptly in the water just after beginning its…

Architecture, Gardens
nozokigaki 覗垣

Lit. "peeping fence." A type of *sodegaki 袖垣 with one or more…

Architecture, Gardens
numazugaki 沼津垣 ✓

Also called ajirogaki 網代垣 or ajiro takegaki 網代竹垣. A type of wickerwork fence, especially popular in…

Architecture, Gardens
ōgaki 大垣

Lit. "big fence." Large, continuous fences in distinction to short screen fences *…

Architecture, Gardens
onari-niwa 御成庭

Lit. "a visitor's garden." A garden at an aristocratic dwelling, located at the entrance for royalty, shogun and noblemen.…

Architecture, Gardens
oriido-no-kagenoki 下り井戸の影の樹

Lit. "spiral well with shade tree." A tree planted near a spiral well *oriido 下り井戸 so that it…

Architecture, Gardens
oriido 下り井戸

Lit. "descending well." A deep well. It is also called spiral well rasei 螺井, or snail well maimai ido…

Architecture, Gardens
oshibuchi 押縁

Lit. "pushing frame." The horizontal bars to which the vertical slats *tateko…

Architecture, Gardens
ōtsugaki 大津垣

Also called yarai 矢来, yaraigaki 矢来垣, chōsengaki 朝鮮垣, and chōsen yarai 朝鮮矢来…

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