| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| yaegaki 八重垣 | Lit. "eightfold fence." A type of double-screen sleeve fence *sodegaki 袖垣 in… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| yagenbori 薬研堀 | A widely used moat with sides that slope like an earthen embankment. The name is derived from the moat having a bottom with… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yagura kemudashi 櫓煙出 | ✓ | Also written 櫓烟出. Also read yagura kemuridashi. An opening constructed in a thatched roof to allow the escape of… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yagura 櫓 | ✓ | A guard tower set atop the corners of a castle's stone wall and other strategic positions overlooking the surrounding area.… |
Architecture, Castles |
| yaguramon 櫓門 | ✓ | Also called a watari yaguramon 渡櫓門 or just *watari yagura 渡櫓. A… |
Architecture, Gates |
| yaguramono 櫓物 | The largest sized roof tile used to connect the turret corridors *watari yagura… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| yaguranuki 櫓貫 | Commonly double-penetrating, diagonally placed beams that connect the main post *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yakata tenjō 屋形天井 | 1 A ceiling with the same pitch as the roof. Really, an exposed ceiling *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yakatajiro 館城 | Also written 屋形城. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yakimono-no-tō 焼物の塔 | A bisque ware or unglazed pagoda. Plain, unglazed small pagodas are called deitō 泥塔, meaning mud pagodas.… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| yaku-ishi 役石 | ✓ | Also kaname-ishi 要石. Rocks and stones which in a tea garden *roji 露地… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| yakuba 役場 | 1 The parts of a stone wall such as exterior corners, top surfaces, or openings for drainage where… |
Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings | |
| yakuboku 役木 | Also read yakugi. The allocation of shrubbery in a garden, particularly applied to trees which set the mood of a… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| yakueda 役枝 | Lit. "roles of branches." The branches of a flower or tree that are given a name based on their "role" in the structure of… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| yakugawara 役瓦 | A generic term for all types of roof tiles which serve a special purpose. These tiles include: sleeve tiles *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| 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 |
| yakushidō 薬師堂 | ✓ | A Buddhist temple hall housing a statue of *Yakushi 薬師 (Sk: Bhaisajyaguru), the Buddha… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| yama-ishi 山石 | Lit. "mountain stone." A generic name for stones found or quarried in the mountains. Unlike sea stones *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| yamajiro-no-koguchi 山城の虎口 | A mountain castle entrance. The entrance *koguchi 虎口 of a mountain… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yamajiro 山城 | ✓ | Lit. "mountain castle." A castle built on a mountain to take advantage of the mountain's topography. One of the three main… |
Architecture, Castles |
| yamame uchikomizumi 山目打込積み | Lit. "mountain eye pounding and inserting piling." A dry construction method used to pile stones for a stone wall *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yamamichi katō 山道火灯 | A window used especially in the Zen style *zenshūyō 禅宗様; a type of ogival… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yamato 大和 | ✓ | 1 An abbreviation for yamatouchi-no-to 大和打の戸 or yamatouchi 大和打. A door that has vertical… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yamato-e shiki teien 大和絵式庭園 | Lit. "gardens in the style of Japanese painting." Also called sakuteikiryū 作庭記流 (gardens in the lineage of the… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| yamatobei 大和塀 | ✓ | A fence made of widths of bleached bamboo spaced about 45 cm apart and held in place by bark. This type of fence is used in… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| yamatobuki 大和葺 | ✓ | 1 A type of board roofing made by first spacing boards of equal width at predetermined intervals and then… |
Architecture, General Terms, Tea Houses |
| yamatokaki 大和掻 | A type of bamboo lattice entwined with wisteria vine set in a window opening *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| yamatomune 大和棟 | An alternative term for a roof style found on Edo period farmhouses nōka 農家, called *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| yanagidana 柳棚 | Lit. "willow shelf." An asymmetrical arrangement of three decorative shelves tokowakidana 床脇棚 arranged in the… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| yanagikugi 柳釘 | Also yanagikakekugi 柳掛け釘. A nail hammered into a partially plastered post yanagibashira 柳柱 (see *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| yanakadake 屋中竹 | Also yamadake 屋間竹. The bamboo purlins, about 20-30 cm in circumference, that are placed about 30-36 cm apart over a… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| yane-ita 屋根板 | A generic name for various types of roofing boards including *noji-ita… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yane kōzō 屋根構造 | ✓ | The construction of the roof framework or roof truss over the body of a building. The essential framing for a gable roof *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yane 屋根 | ✓ | Also called okugai 屋蓋, lit. "roof covering." A generic term for various types of roofs, roof styles, and roofing.… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yanebuki 屋根葺 | Roofing or roof covering. The most commonly used types of roofing are clay tiles *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yanegae 屋根替 | Rethatching, retiling, or reshingling a roof whereby old roofing is replaced with new roofing. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yanekugi 屋根釘 | Also kobanekugi 小羽根釘. Small round bamboo roofing nails, with a diameter between 2.1 to 2.8 mm and a length from 50… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yaneura 屋根裏 | 1 See *keshō yaneura 化粧屋根裏. 2 An… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yaraiko 矢来子 | The framing members of a fence. They may be vertical, horizontal, diagonal, or arranged to form squares or lozenges. A variety… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| yareigeta 破井桁 | ✓ | Lit. "broken well crib." Also yabureigeta. A design used for muntins *kumiko… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yariganna 槍鉋 | A plane thought to have been the only plane employed in ancient times to pare and finish timber. Today carpenters do not use… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| yarimizu 遣水 | ✓ | Lit. "water course." An archaic term for a shallow, curving garden stream. The term, found in the 11th-century garden manual… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| yarisama 鑓狭間 | A loophole for thrusting pikes and spears. Typically, they are installed in narrow locations beside main castle entrances… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yasaka-zukuri 八坂造 | Also *yasaka-zukuri 祇園造. A style of shrine architecture which began in the… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| Yashamon 夜叉門 | ✓ | An eight-legged gate *hakkyakumon 八脚門 (1653) located at Rinnōji Taiyūin… |
Architecture, Gates |
| yashikijiro 屋敷城 | A small castle or fortification built like a a country house or mansion yashiki 屋敷. In the middle ages, it usually… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yashikimon 屋敷門 | ✓ | 1 The front gate of a warrior's manor house. 2 A gate, now called Kyū tōjin… |
Architecture, Gates |
| yashiro 社 | 1 A Shinto shrine. 2 In very ancient times before permanent buildings were erected… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| yasuri 鑢 | U-shaped metal pieces nailed to a gate, allowing it to be locked with a sliding timber gate-bar *… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| yatoi-ari 雇蟻 | A right-angled joint with a dovetail spline tenon *hozo ほぞ that resembles a… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| yatoihozo 雇ほぞ | Also called sashiki 差木, yatoiki 雇木, or machihozo 待ほぞ. 1 A spline tenon. A… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| yatsu 八つ | Lit. "the character eight 八 yatsu." The practice of propping three or four posts around a newly replanted tree. The… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| yatsuhashi 八橋 | ✓ | 1 Lit. "eight bridges." A type of low bridge built over a shallow pond or marsh using wooden planks without… |
Architecture, Art History, Painting |
| yatsumune-zukuri 八棟造 | ✓ | Lit. "eight-ridge construction." A complicated roof style with multiple ridges and bargeboards, or large vernacular house… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yatsushi torikabuto 省鳥兜 | A type of decorated beam *kibana 木鼻 which is a simplified version of Japanese… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| yawari 矢割 | A method of stone-splitting achieved by boring a hole in the stone. A wedge *kusabi… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yazama 矢狭間 | An arrow loophole in a castle wall. Also sengan 箭眼. Characterized by a vertical opening about 45 cm high (1 … |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yō no koguchi 陽の虎口 | Positive castle entrance or yang entrance. A generic term for various types of castle entrance *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yō 様 | A suffix. When used in architectural history, it means a technical style, as in *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yobikogata chōzubachi 呼子形手水鉢 | Lit. "whistle shape." A type of water basin *chōzubachi 手水鉢 which resembles… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| yodo 淀 | ✓ | Also yodogi 淀木 or yodonuki 淀貫. Tapered horizontal timber, 12-15 cm wide and 4.5 cm thick, placed on top of… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yōgai 要害 | Also written 用害. 1 A place of strategic importance, having steep terrain that is easy to defend. In… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yōhaiden 遥拝殿 | In ancient times called fukukai 伏拝; ippukuhai 一伏拝. The worship of a god that is enshrined at a distant… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| yōji-bashira 楊子柱 | Also called nuritate bashira 塗立柱, nuridashi bashira 塗出柱 or yanagi bashira 柳柱. A corner pillar in… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| yōjigane 楊枝鉄 | Also called chikara gane 力鉄 or kanehōzu-e 鉄方杖. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yojōhan 四畳半 | ✓ | A four and a half 4 1/2 mat tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室, the most common… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| yojōhangiri 四畳半切 | Lit. "four mats and a half cut." A firebox or hearth used in a 4 1/2 mat or larger tea ceremony room *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| yoko-ita 横板 | 1 Horizontal, parallel boards with a wood grain that runs sideways. In shrine architecture *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yokobikinoko 横挽鋸 | Also read yokobiki nokogiri. A crosscut saw. A saw used for cutting wood across the grain. | Architecture, Tools | |
| yokobori 横堀 | A lateral dry moat excavated crosswise in front of a mountain castle *yamajiro… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yokogi 横木 | Also hikigi 引木 Lit. "horizontal timber." Although the term yokogi can refer to any horizontal timber, it… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| yokohaiden 横拝殿 | ✓ | A long, rectangular worship hall at a Shinto shrine with entrances on the front and rear sides parallel to the ridge. The… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| yokome-ita 横目板 | Also called *oshibuchi 押縁. Narrow, thin battens placed horizontally over… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yokosama 横狭間 | A side loophole of the *yarisama 鑓狭間 type for pike and spears. Typically… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yokoshigezan 横繁桟 | ✓ | Closely spaced horizontal crosspieces commonly found on latticed doors *mairado… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yokoshino 横篠 | ✓ | 1 The horizontal line of a bamboo joint. |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yokoya 横矢 | Lit. "side arrow." |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yokoya hizumi 横矢邪 | Also written 横矢斜 and 横矢歪. Lit. "distorted rampart." A diagonal projection from a castle rampart. Used by defending troops to… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yokoya masugata 横矢桝形 | Also termed demasugata 出桝形. A defensive box-shaped courtyard *masugata… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yokoya sumi-otoshi 横矢角落 | ✓ | Also written 横矢隅落. A diagonally cut-away corner of a castle tower, used to launch side attacks *… |
Architecture, Castles |
| yokoza 横座 | 1 The seat of the principal and most honored guest sonsha 尊者 at formal banquets in the shinden… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| yokozan 横桟 | ✓ | Also called nakazan 中桟. A generic term for the parallel crosspieces used to frame doors, windows, and other… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yokozando 横桟戸 | ✓ | A timber door frame into which horizontal boards are set. The seams tsugime 継目 are hidden by crosspieces nailed in… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yokurō 翼廊 | ✓ | Lit. "wing corridors." A corridor that extends outward from the side or rear of a building. Examples: Byōdōin *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| Yōmeimon 陽明門 | ✓ | Lit. "sun bright gate." |
Architecture, Gates |
| yomezuka 嫁束 | Also called *kirizuka 切束, komitatara 込たたら. A short strut… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yonmaihozo 四枚ほぞ | ✓ | The four tenons cut into the crosscut of a beam. Quadruple tenons. The same principle is used in making double tenons *… | Architecture, Joints |
| yōraku 瓔珞 | 1 A string of beads or lacework used to decorate Buddhist statues and objects. Often found on Bodhisattva… |
Art History, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorations | |
| yorikimado 与力窓 | ✓ | 1 A rectangular window used in exterior walls, fitted with thick horizontal timber bars *… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings |
| yoritsuki 寄付 | Also written 寄附. |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses | |
| yoroido 鎧戸 | Also called gararido がらり戸. The horizontal, louver boards yoroi-ita 鎧板 of a door that run parallel to each… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yose-ari hikidokko 寄蟻引独鈷 | A right angle joint used to attach a horizontal member to a pillar. It combines a type of dovetail joint *… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| yose-ari 寄蟻 | Also called okuri-ari 送蟻. A right angle joint *shiguchi 仕口 used to… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| yose-ishijiki 寄石敷 | Stone paving in which various sizes of cut and natural stones are arranged in unique patterns. Different sizes of regular… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| yosegi 寄木 | 1 The upper horizontal timber yosegi 寄木, in a transom, called *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yosejikii 寄敷居 | ✓ | Also called *tatamiyose 畳寄, or abbreviated to yose 寄. A horizontal timber level with… | Architecture, General Terms |
| yosekake 寄掛 | A board fence erected to protect the exterior plastered walls of a storehouse *dozō… |
Architecture, Storehouses | |
| yosekakebashira 寄掛柱 | A post set against a castle's sloping stone wall, at the same angle of incline, under the watch tower gate *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yosemune yane 寄棟屋根 | ✓ | Also abbreviated to yosemune 寄棟, also called yotsuyane 四つ屋根. A hipped roof. A roof that descends from the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yosemune-zukuri 寄棟造 | Also called *shia 四阿 in the Nara period. Also komune-zukuri 小棟造, … |
Architecture, General Terms |
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