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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
nagare-zukuri 流造 ✓

Also nagare hafu-zukuri 流破風造. A widely used style of main sanctuary *…

Architecture, Shrines
nagatoko 長床

A room at Kumano Jinja 熊野神社, in Fukushima Prefecture, which is similar to a worshipper's hall *…

Architecture, Shrines
Naikūgen torii 内宮源鳥居

Small entrance-gates at Yoshida Jinja 吉田神社 in Kyoto. They are located in front of two small shrines behind the octagonal…

Architecture, Shrines
nainaijin 内内陣

1 A miniature shrine within the sanctuary of a Shinto shrine.

2 The innermost…

Architecture, Shrines
nakayama torii 中山鳥居

Also called banshi torii 伴氏鳥居. A stone entrance-gate to a Shinto shrine *torii…

Architecture, Shrines
naoraiden 直会殿

Also read noraidono, gesaiden 解斎殿. A shrine building to which priests retire after performing the Shinto…

Architecture, Shrines
nune torii 奴禰鳥居

An ornamental type of *myōjin torii 明神鳥居, or gate-like entrance a Shinto…

Architecture, Shrines
yasaka-zukuri 八坂造

Also *yasaka-zukuri 祇園造. A style of shrine architecture which began in the…

Architecture, Shrines
yashiro 社

1 A Shinto shrine.

2 In very ancient times before permanent buildings were erected…

Architecture, Shrines
yōhaiden 遥拝殿

In ancient times called fukukai 伏拝; ippukuhai 一伏拝. The worship of a god that is enshrined at a distant…

Architecture, Shrines
yokohaiden 横拝殿 ✓

A long, rectangular worship hall at a Shinto shrine with entrances on the front and rear sides parallel to the ridge. The…

Architecture, Shrines
yūitsu shinmei zukuri 唯一神明造

Lit. "the unique shinmei style." A style of Shinto Shrine architecture characterized by the main sanctuaries *…

Architecture, Shrines
yuniwa 斎庭

Also *saijō 斎場. A place to perform purification rituals and to worship the…

Architecture, Shrines

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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