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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
taisha-zukuri 大社造 ✓

Also called ōyashiro-zukuri. The oldest style of shrine architecture. Its small scale is thought to resemble that…

Architecture, Shrines
tasukizumi 襷墨 ✓

A diagonal line. A word applied to structural members used in the modular system kikujutsu 規矩術. Specifically, this…

Architecture, Shrines
tatehaiden 縦拝殿 ✓

A type of worship hall *haiden 拝殿 which is attached to the main…

Architecture, Shrines
teinaisha 邸内社

Also dainaisha 第内社. A shrine within the estate or premises teinai 邸内 of a nobleman. The mansion, …

Architecture, Shrines
tenchi kongen-zukuri 天地根元造

1 A prehistoric pit dwelling *tateana jūkyo …

Architecture, Shrines
torii 鳥居

Also written 鳥栖; 鶏栖. Lit. "bird perch." At one time, torii were called uefukazu-no-mikado or…

Architecture, Shrines
toriimon 鳥居門

Lit. "bird perch gate." A shrine gate with a board fence attached to the outer part of each of the two pillars. A *…

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