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En'ya 園冶

Ch: Yuanye. Lit. garden building. The only extant treatise on classical Chinese garden construction. Written by the…

Architecture, General Terms, Document
Kundaikan sōchōki 君台観左右帳記

A single-volume book detailing Chinese objects, particularly tea-ceremony utensils, given to the shogunal family by Ashikaga…

Architecture, General Terms, Document
Okazarisho 御飾書

Shogun Ashikaga's 足利 book of tea ceremony implement arrangement, thought to have been written by Sōami 相阿弥 (1455-1525), a…

Architecture, General Terms, Document
Shōmei 匠明

Lit. "clarification for the artisan-builder." The best known manual of construction and building design. It is based on oral…

Architecture, General Terms, Document
Teizō hisho 庭造秘書

Lit. "Secret Text on Garden Construction." A treatise on landscape design supposedly written first in the Muromachi period.…

Architecture, General Terms, Document

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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