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intro world architecture
vocab + images for sacred architecture + funerary architecture
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Art History
Undergraduate 4
02/07/2010

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Term
propylaeum
Definition
entrance from the street (Christian)
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atrium
Definition
colonnaded open courtyard (Christian)
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narthex
Definition
entry way on the façade of the main building (Christian)
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aisles
Definition
along perimeter walls (Christian)
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nave
Definition
open central chamber (Christian)
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transept
Definition
transverse aisle (Christian)
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apse
Definition
most sacred area for the altar, usually found off chapels + nave (Christian)
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westwork
Definition
replaces narthex, large structure on the west side of basilica churches for royalty, officials, etc to sit (Christian)
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apsidial/radiated chapels
Definition
small chapels radiating out of the main apse/nave (Christian)
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tympanum
Definition
semi-circular area over portals often containing relief sculpture-- usually of the last judgement (Christian)
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flying buttresses
Definition
external supports for walls (Christian)
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rayonnant style
Definition
incorporates thin walls and windows to let the light in (Christian)
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jingu/jinja/taisha
Definition
generic terms for Shinto shrines (Shinto)
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haniwa
Definition
figures that are buried with, and protect, the dead (Shinto)
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kami
Definition
shinto deity; spirits; superior or mysterious force of nature, either creative or destructive (Shinto)
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shintai
Definition
kami body; somewhere the kami can inhabit (Shinto)
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shimenawa
Definition
rice straw ropes that demarcate shintai (Shinto)
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gohei
Definition
sacred paper attached to shimenawa
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torii
Definition
gate to Shinto shrines (Shinto)
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matsuri
Definition
Shinto festival when the kami is brought out; power of kami is brought to the community (Shinto)
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mikoshi
Definition
portable shrine for matsuri (Shinto)
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jichinsai ceremony
Definition
pacifying kami of a building site (Shinto)
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shoden
Definition
main building at Ise (Shinto)
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Amatersasu
Definition
Sun Goddess (Shinto)
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honden
Definition
main hall at most Shinto shrines (Shinto)
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naiku
Definition
Ise's inner-and most important-shrine (Shinto)
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gekku
Definition
Ise's outer shrine (Shinto)
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mitarashi
Definition
place for water purification (Shinto)
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kirizuma
Definition
cypress bark roof at shoden (Shinto)
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chigi
Definition
decorated gables at shoden (Shinto)
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katsuogi
Definition
logs along ridge of roof at shoden (Shinto)
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torana
Definition
gate to stupa (Buddhism)
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