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tachichōzubachi 立手水鉢 ✓

Lit. "standing water basin." A type of tall basin *chōzubachi 手水鉢 that can…

Architecture, Gardens
takaikegaki 高生垣

A hedge, 3 to 5 m high, planted as a wind screen or for fire control.

Architecture, Gardens
take tokusabei 竹木賊塀 ✓

Lit. "bamboo and horsetail tokusa 木賊 fence."

1 A fence that has split and crushed bamboo…

Architecture, Gardens
takegaki 竹垣 ✓

Lit. "bamboo fence." A generic name for any kind of fence made with bamboo. Specific types include *…

Architecture, Gardens
takeyarai 竹矢来 ✓

Also written 竹柵. A roughly constructed bamboo fence with horizontal pieces placed close to the top, at the center, and at…

Architecture, Gardens
takigumi-ishi 滝組石

Lit. "waterfall stone arrangement." A type of stone arrangement used for garden waterfalls. Also pronounced taki-…

Architecture, Gardens
tama-ishi 玉石

Lit. "round stone." A boulder about 15-30 cm across, which has been naturally rounded by a river or ocean waves. Often…

Architecture, Gardens
tamabuchi 玉縁

Lit. "jewelled edge."

1 The tip on the rear, narrow end of a half-round roof tile *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Gardens
tanba-ishi 丹波石

Lit. "Tanba stone." A type of granite from the Kameoka 亀岡 region, northwest of Kyoto. High in iron, it is used for pavements…

Architecture, Gardens
tate-ishi 竪石

A dominating garden stone that is set in an upright position. The term appears first in the *…

Architecture, Gardens
tateko 竪子

Also written 立子 or 建子, read tatego.

1  A generic term for the vertical muntins on lattice…

Architecture, Gardens
tatōshiki teien 多島式庭園

Lit. "multiple-island style." More than two islands constructed in a chisen 池泉 (pond and stream) type garden.

Architecture, Gardens
teppeiseki 鉄平石

Lit. "flat iron stone." A type of andesite quarried in the Suwa 諏訪 and Kitasaku 北佐久 regions of Nagano Prefecture. The flat,…

Architecture, Gardens
teppōgaki 鉄砲垣

Lit. "musket fence." A type of *sodegaki 袖垣 or *…

Architecture, Gardens
tobi-ishidan 飛石段

Lit. "stepping stone stairs." A type of stepping stone *tobi-ishi 飛石, placed on a slope to…

Architecture, Gardens
tokiwagi 常盤木

Lit. "evergreen tree." A pine matsu 松, cryptomeria sugi 杉, or sakaki 榊, found in almost all types…

Architecture, Gardens
tokusabei 木賊塀

A type of formal fence associated with the walls surrounding nobles' homes and tearooms *…

Architecture, Gardens
Tsukiyama teizōden 築山庭造伝

Lit. "Commentary on Landscape Gardens."

1 A mid-Edo book written by garden designer Kitamura Enkin…

Architecture, Gardens, Document
tsukiyama 築山

The older term is *kasan 仮山. Lit. "constructed mountain."…

Architecture, Gardens
tsukuri-izumi 作り泉

Lit. "constructed spring." The artificial watercourse built to conduct spring water into a garden. The term, found in the…

Architecture, Gardens
tsurujima 鶴島

Lit. "crane island." A garden island made with several stones and, usually, a pine to suggest the flight of a crane. As a…

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