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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
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
yasuri 鑢

U-shaped metal pieces nailed to a gate, allowing it to be locked with a sliding timber gate-bar *…

Architecture, Tools
yokobikinoko 横挽鋸 Also read yokobiki nokogiri. A crosscut saw. A saw used for cutting wood across the grain. Architecture, Tools

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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