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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
yaguramon 櫓門 ✓

Also called a watari yaguramon 渡櫓門 or just *watari yagura 渡櫓. A…

Architecture, Gates
yakuimon 薬医門 ✓

A gate with a gable roof constructed with two square or rectangular main posts and two square or circular secondary posts *…

Architecture, Gates
Yashamon 夜叉門 ✓

An eight-legged gate *hakkyakumon 八脚門 (1653) located at Rinnōji Taiyūin…

Architecture, Gates
yashikimon 屋敷門 ✓

1 The front gate of a warrior's manor house.

2 A gate, now called Kyū tōjin…

Architecture, Gates
Yōmeimon 陽明門 ✓

Lit. "sun bright gate."

1 One of the 12 gates located on the east side of the outer enclosure of the…

Architecture, Gates

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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