| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| Nageiredō 投入堂 | ✓ | Also once known as Zaōdō 蔵王堂. The Nageiredō is a small building, constructed in the overhang style kake-zukuri 懸造,… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| naidō 内堂 | Buddhist priests' living quarters. Higher-ranking priests had two rooms one behind the other. The inner room was called the… |
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| nanto shichidaiji 南都七大寺 | Lit. "southern capital seven great temples." A generic expression in use by the 8th century referring to the seven great… |
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| narabidō 双堂 | ✓ | Also read sōdō. Twin buildings in the grounds of a Japanese temple that are of equal length, but not necessarily of… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| narabigura 双倉 | ✓ | Also read sōsō. Lit. "twin storehouses." Two storehouses of the same size placed so that the space between was the… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| nenbutsudō 念仏堂 | ✓ | A hall within the precinct of a Buddhist temple used for the purpose of training Buddhist monks to meditate on and recite… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| Nigatsudō 二月堂 | ✓ | Lit. "second month hall." A temple widely known for its famous ancient festival called omizutori お水取り in March… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| nijū butsudō 二重仏堂 | A term that can be applied to any temple or shrine building etc., which has either a double roof, a skirting *… |
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| nikairō 二階廊 | A second story corridor. A corridor of this type is thought to have first existed at Tōfukuji 東福寺, in Kyoto established in… |
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| niōdō 二王堂 | A building or often a gate that enshrines the two guardian deities, protectors of Buddhism. They are generally placed at the… |
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| nishimuro 西室 | West dormitory. In the 7th and 8th centuries, some temples had monk's quarters to the west of the lecture hall as well as… |
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| nōkotsudō 納骨堂 | 1 A hall where cinerary urns are stored and human ashes are kept. |
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| nōsashōtō 能作生塔 | A miniature pagoda in a bowl or rotund bottle shape. The pagoda is made of gilt bronze *… |
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| raidō 礼堂 | Also called raihaidō 礼拝堂. A worship hall. When Buddhist temples were constructed during the 7th-8th century,… |
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| rantō 卵塔 | A stone pagoda with an egg-shaped main body placed directly on a base. It differs from the *… |
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| rinzō 輪蔵 | Also called kaiten rinzō 回転輪蔵. Octagonal sutra storage shelves that revolve around a central pillar, which acts as… |
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| rokkaku endō 六角円堂 | ✓ | Also rokkakudō 六角堂. A hexagonal building of relatively small scale found at some temples. Like octagonal halls… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| rokkaku sanjū-no-tō 六角三重塔 | A type of three-storied, hexagonal pagoda made in relief on a copper plate in accordance with an explanation found in the… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
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