| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| aboshigaki 網干垣 | Lit. hanging net fence. A generic name for a bamboo fence whose surface resembles the diagonal weave of a fishing net. Often… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| abumigawara 鐙瓦 | Lit. stirrup tile. An ancient name for *nokimarugawara 軒丸瓦. Also called… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| 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 | |
| agesage shōji 上下障子 | ✓ | Also called *suriage shōji 摺上障子. A sliding door frame covered with… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| agesudo 揚簀戸 | Lit. raised lattice door. A type of small middle gate or wicket *kido 木戸, used to… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| agetekiri 上げ手切 | A firebox that is cut into the upper part of the mat next to the host's mat *temae… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| agetsuchimon 上土門 | ✓ | Also written 揚土門; also called azuchimon 安土門. A gate with a mud roof. To support the roof the gate has two pillars… |
Architecture, Gates |
| ageya 揚屋 | Also called ageya jaya 揚屋茶屋. A type of town house *machiya 町家, found… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| agokaki 腮欠 | ✓ | Lit. chin gap. One of many types of cogging joints. The joint is used to attach a horizontal timber to the face of a square… |
Architecture, Joints |
| 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 | |
| aidaruki 間垂木 | ✓ | A treatment of the underside of a roof, with thin bamboo placed between rafters under the roof *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| aigaki 相欠 | ✓ | Also written 合欠. A lap or halving joint. When used at a corner, it is called a corner lap joint. When used where two members… |
Architecture, Joints |
| aijakuri 合決 | A shiplap joint or halving joint. Also written 相決. |
Architecture, Joints | |
| aikugi 合釘 | ✓ | Also kurekugi 呉釘, kirikugi 切釘. A straight nail with both ends pointed. It is made of wood, bamboo, iron,… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| aioi 相生 | Lit. growing together. The technique of planting two trees so that they grow together. Variations include: the same kind of… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| aioibashi 相生橋 | Lit. twin bridges. Side-by-side bridges constructed over a garden stream. Usually one bridge is larger than the other in… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| aiorekugi 合折釘 | ✓ | Also called oreaikugi 折合釘 or mageorekugi 曲折釘. A type of double-pointed iron nail, square in section, and… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| aiyokoya-no-sama 合横矢の狭間 | Also aiyokoya 合横矢. Lit. loophole for opposing lateral arrows. A loophole constructed in a castle wall or rampart to… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| Aizendō 愛染堂 | An octagonal hall *hakkaku endō 八角円堂, at Sanshōji 三聖寺 in… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| ajiro 網代 | ✓ | A woven or plaited wickerwork mat made of strips of bamboo sheathing, thin strips of cryptomeria, straight-grained… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| akacha-iro 赤茶色 | Lit. red brown color. The reddish brown or russet color on the ancient smooth, lipless tiles *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| akaiya 閼伽井屋 | ✓ | Also called wakasaiya 若狭井屋. A small structure that enclosed two wells from which water was drawn to serve the… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| akari shōji 明障子 | ✓ | One type of *shōji 障子. A translucent screen or sliding door made by pasting… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| akazumon 不開門 | Also called akazu-no-mon 不開門 or ikanmon 偉鑒門. Lit. closed gate. Legend has it that after Emperor Kazan 花山 (… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| aki 明 | Also written 空; kūgeki 空隙, ma 間. Lit. empty, gap, space. The space between two structural parts. For… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| akijiro 明城 | Also written 空城. An empty castle or fortress from which the lord and/or his defensive garrison have withdrawn, either… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| akkon 圧痕 | Evidence left on load bearing members by beams *hari 梁, *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ama 天 | 1 A rack with an open lattice frame of timber or bamboo, suspended from the main crossbeams *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| amado 雨戸 | 1 Wooden shutters constructed at the various openings of a building. They slide out from a special storage… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| amadoi 雨樋 | A gutter used to carry rainwater from the eave-ends to a downspout or hanging chain and thence to the ground. This method… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| amagumi 疎組 | ✓ | Also read mabaragumi; also written 阿麻組 amagumi. A bracket complex *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| amajimai 雨仕舞 | Weather stripping, flashing, a rain guard, or any device used to prevent leaks or deflect rainwater. A hōju roban… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| amakatsura-ishi 雨葛石 | A curbstone that runs horizontally along the top edge of a podium *danjōzumi… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| amaochi 雨落 | ✓ | Also called amadari 雨垂り and amadareochi 雨垂れ落ち. The place on the ground, directly below the eaves,… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| amashōji 雨障子 | Also called aburashōji 油障子. A type of translucent paper-covered window found most often in tea ceremony houses *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| amidadō 阿弥陀堂 | A hall in a Buddhist temple dedicated to *Amida 阿弥陀 (Sk: Amitabha), the Buddha… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| amigaki 網垣 | Lit. wattle fence. A common type of low fence with a framework of whole and split bamboo into which thin boards or reeds are… | Architecture, Gardens | |
| amigasa 編笠 | ✓ | One type of Korean style tea bowl *chawan 茶碗, with white brush strokes on the… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| amigasamon 編笠門 | Also written 網笠門. A wattle-hood gate. A simple gate used as a middle gate in a garden *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| ananai 麻生 | An ancient word for *ashiba 足場 or ashishiro 足代, scaffolding made of… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| anazukikanna 穴突鉋 | A grooving plane. A plane used in carpentry to make a groove. For a groove less than 15 mm wide a small anazukikanna… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| ao-ishi 青石 | Lit. blue stone. A generic name for a blue green stone of chlorite schist much used in gardens from the Muromachi period… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| aori hafu 障泥破風 | Lit. curved bargeboard. An archaic term for *chidori haru 千鳥破風, a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| aori-ita 障泥板 | ✓ | Also read afuri-ita; irakaōi 甍覆. 1 A thick board attached to the edge of a veranda… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| aoshibagaki 青柴垣 | Lit. fresh brushwood fence. A simple type of low fence made out of fresh brushwood. Popular in ancient times, when it was… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| ara-ishi 荒石 | Lit. rough stone. A generic term for rough, unprocessed rock in the form in which it is found or quarried. Also read *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| aragaki 荒垣 | ✓ | Lit. rough fence. A general term to designate any kind of crude fence with widely spaced posts and crossbars. It is also… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| arakabe 荒壁 | The first layer of mud plaster applied to the lath *komai 小舞, that… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| arare koboshi 霰零し | Lit. scattered hail stones. A method of paving *tama-ishijiki 玉石敷, in… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| arare kuzushi 霰崩 | ✓ | Simplified hail stone style of round-stone paving *tama-ishijiki… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| ararebai 霰灰 | ✓ | A type of coarse ash used in a tea ceremony brazier. Usually it is covered with makibai 蒔灰, a finer ash with a… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| arashikō ganna 荒仕工鉋 | A type of smoothing plane. The arashikō ganna is the first smoothing plane used on a piece of timber, planking… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| ari 蟻 | Lit. dovetail shape. Also arigata 蟻形. The generic term for any part of a joint in a dovetail shape. The earliest… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| aridome 蟻留 | ✓ | A type of right angle, mitered, housed, and dovetail joint used mainly on flat timber as, for example, in the upper… |
Architecture, Joints |
| arigata aigakihozo 蟻形相欠ほぞ | Also arigata aihozo 蟻形相ほぞ. Dovetail halving. A type of half-lap dovetail joint *… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| arigoshi 蟻腰 | The name of one section of a tea scoop. It is the deep indentation at the back part of a bamboo tea scoop *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| arihozo 蟻ほぞ | ✓ | Lit. dovetail tenon. Also *arikake 蟻掛. A tenon shaped like a dove's tail with… |
Architecture, Joints |
| arikabe 蟻壁 | 1 A narrow horizontal strip of wall between a long, light, binding beam *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| arikake 蟻掛 | 1 A dovetail joint with the dovetail tenon cut at the butt end about half the depth of one beam. It then is… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| arikubi 蟻首 | Lit. dovetail neck.
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Architecture, Joints | |
| ariotoshi 蟻落 | Also called *arikake 蟻掛. |
Architecture, Joints | |
| aritsugi 蟻継 | ✓ | A dovetail joint used to attach the ends of two boards. The tenon *hozo ほぞ or… |
Architecture, Joints |
| arizuri 蟻吊 | Also written 蟻釣. A type of angled wood joint. A dovetail tenon *arihozo… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| asagaokugi 朝顔釘 | ✓ | Lit. morning glory nail. A two-pronged nail bent into a right angle for the purpose of hanging a flower vase. The nail… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| ashi 足 | Lit. leg or foot. Also 脚, read ashi or kyaku. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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 | |
| ashiagekura 足揚倉 | Also simply called *ashiage 足揚. A type of thatched storehouse set upon a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ashiba 足場 | Scaffold or scaffolding. A temporary, elevated structure used to support workmen, tools, etc. when erecting a building.… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ashigatame 足固 | Also written 脚固, 足堅. Strong, horizontal ties which strengthen the posts beneath the floor of a timber building by… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ashimoto 足元 | 1 A general term for all structural members from the foundation *dodai… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ashimotogaki 足下垣 | Lit. footstep fence. A generic term for a fence made alongside a path. It is similar to the *… | Architecture, Gardens | |
| ashimotogawara 足元瓦 | Also called *hire 鰭 or *hiregawara… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| ashiwake 葦分け | Lit. split reed. A style of round-stone paving *tama-ishijiki 玉石敷 of the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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 | |
| atsuhirabashira 厚平柱 | A type of rectangular pillar employed in the construction of a gate at a castle or dwelling. This pillar, front to back, is… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ausaka 合坂 | Also read aisaka. A type of warrior run *mushabashiri 武者走, where… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| awa-ishi 阿波石 | Lit. sea-foam stone. A type of blue stone *ao-ishi 青石, produced in modern… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| awasejōgi 合せ定規 | A wooden measuring gauge *jōgi 定規, generally, 6-7 cm wide, 35-45 cm long, and 0.9… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| ayasuji 綾筋 | ✓ | Also pronounced shimesuji 〆筋. The parallel chevron lines on the front or sides of a lion-mouth roof tile *… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| azegi 校木 | ✓ | Also pronounced azeki. Chamfered logs used to build walls for storehouses *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| azehikinoko 畔挽鋸 | Lit. ridge cutting saw; from aze 畔 meaning a ridge between rice fields. An intermediate cutting saw. The … |
Architecture, Tools | |
| azekura 校倉 | ✓ | A storage facility constructed of logs *azegi 校木, cut in appropriate lengths to… |
Architecture, Storehouses |
| azuchi-umadashi 的山馬出 | Also written 安土馬出. A type of defensive gateway barrier *umadashi 馬出,… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| ebi-no-koshi 海老の腰 | Also written 蝦の腰 or 蝦腰. A type of decorative molding *kurigata 繰形, used on… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| ebikōryō 海老虹梁 | ✓ | Also written 蝦虹梁. An usually-shaped rainbow tie beam thought to resemble the back of a lobster or shrimp or an s-shape… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| ebisubashira 恵比須柱 | 1 A structural post considered sacred in an Edo period vernacular house *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| ebisudō 夷堂 | A simple structure that was usually erected in the center of a market place to house the deity *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| ebizuka 海老束 | Also written 蝦束; also hinazuka 雛束. A small strut with chamfered corners used between two staggered… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| eburi-ita 柄振板 | ✓ | Also written 絵振板 or 恵振板. A board cut in a decorative shape and attached at a right angle to the projecting end of a… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| eburidai 柄振台 | ✓ | Also written 絵振台. Also called onigawaradai 鬼瓦台, *onidai 鬼台. … |
Architecture, General Terms |
| edazuka 枝束 | Lit. branch strut. Also called hōzue 方杖; hasuzuka 斜束 or nanamezuka 斜め束. Diagonal braces used in… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| edazumi 枝炭 | ✓ | Lit. branch charcoal. A type of charcoal which is both ornamental and easy to ignite, used in either a sunken hearth *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| edogawara 江戸瓦 | An archaic term for tiles of low quality used in Edo (now Tokyo) during the Edo period to roof tenement houses *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| edoguro 江戸黒 | ✓ | Lit. Edo black. A black plaster finish applied to the walls of fireproof mud-plastered storehouses *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| edoma 江戸間 | A standard unit of measurement used in Edo and various towns in the Kantō 関東 region. In constructing an ordinary… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| eitaitō 永代灯 | Also jōyatō 常夜灯. A device to prevent the votive light in a lantern from going out. |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| ekimon 掖門 | ✓ | Also written 腋門, or read *wakimon 脇門. A small gate… |
Architecture, Gates |
| emadō 絵馬堂 | ✓ | Lit. picture horse hall. Also called emaden 絵馬殿; emadokoro 絵馬所 or gakuden 額殿 (frame hall),… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| emyōbuta 慧明蓋 | The domed lid of a tea ceremony kettle with an indentation or depressed area around the knob. Sometimes called a fuji… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
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