| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| agedo 揚げ戸 | ✓ | Lit. push-up door. A variety of upward-opening door or shutter used during the Edo period in urban merchant and artisan… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| agemise 揚見世 | Also called *battari shōgi ばったり床几 or age-en あげ縁. |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| ageya 揚屋 | Also called ageya jaya 揚屋茶屋. A type of town house *machiya 町家, found… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| ai-no-ma 相の間 | 1 A space between two main structures or two points. 2 In the case of two buildings… |
Architecture, Shrines, Folk Dwellings | |
| ama 天 | 1 A rack with an open lattice frame of timber or bamboo, suspended from the main crossbeams *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| ashiage 足揚 | 1 A structure erected in the central open space, miyaa みやあ, of a settlement in Okinawa Prefecture… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| atari 当り | 1 The part of an architectural element in which one member meets another. Different from a joint in that it… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| chanoma 茶の間 | Lit. tearoom. A Edo period communal living room usually containing a hearth *irori… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| chigi 千木 | Also written 鎮木, 知木, 知疑. Also higi 氷木. 1 Forked finials, which are found on most Shinto… |
Architecture, Shrines, Folk Dwellings | |
| chōdai 帳台 | 1 A curtained sleeping platform used by those of highest rank in shinden style *… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| chōdaigamae 帳台構え | 1 A built-in ornamental doorway found in the raised area *jōdan… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| chōna-zukuri 釿造り | A method of construction that employed long substantial beams called *chōnabari… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| chōnabari 釿梁 | ✓ | Transverse roof beams that span the distance from the center posts of a vernacular house with a thatched roof to the *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| chūmon-zukuri 中門造り | A type of vernacular house *minka 民家, characterized by one or more wings or… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| chūnikai 中二階 | ✓ | A term for a loft or attic occupying the roof space of a vernacular house *minka… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
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