中ちゅう門もん廊ろう

noun

corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (traditional palatial architecture)

Technical term used in descriptions of 寝殿造り (shinden-zukuri) and other Heian-period palatial architecture. Refers to a covered passageway linking a secondary building to a structure facing the garden pond.

See also: 中門 · 寝殿造り

• 寝しん殿でん造づくりでは、中ちゅう門もん廊ろうが対屋たいのやと池いけに面めんした建たて物ものをつないでいた。

  In shinden-zukuri architecture, the chūmonrō connected a side building (tai-no-ya) to the structure facing the pond.