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ōbaku kenchiku 黄檗建築

Architecture introduced at temples of the Ōbaku 黄檗 sect, in the Edo period. This sect is one of the three Zen 禅 sects. The…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
Ōkakudai 黄鶴台

A sukiya style *sukiya-zukuri 数寄屋造 bathhouse, yokushitsu…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
oku-no-in 奥の院

A structure named for its location behind the main hall of a Buddhist temple or Shinto shrine. Sometimes it is a…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
Onrindō 園林堂

A small, 2 × 2 1/2 bay private Buddhist hall (1685?) at Katsura Rikyū 桂離宮, Kyoto. The hall has a tiled roof *…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
ōyuya 大湯屋 ✓

Also called yuya 湯屋, yokushitsu 浴室, onshitsu 温室. A bathhouse. Traditionally, a separate…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures

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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