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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
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
aidaruki 間垂木 ✓

A treatment of the underside of a roof, with thin bamboo placed between rafters under the roof *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
ajiro 網代 ✓

A woven or plaited wickerwork mat made of strips of bamboo sheathing, thin strips of cryptomeria, straight-grained…

Architecture, Tea Houses
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
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
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
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
fukasanjō 深三畳

Also fukasanjō-no-seki 深三畳席. A tea ceremony room of three mats. One of the mats is about one quarter normal size,…

Architecture, Tea Houses
fukurodana 袋棚

Also fukurotodana 袋戸棚 or tenbukuro 天袋. Lit. enclosed shelf.

1 A small cupboard…

Architecture, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings
fukurodoko 袋床

Lit. pouch or pocket alcove. An alcove, *tokonoma 床の間, characterized by a…

Architecture, Tea Houses
fukurokakekugi 袋掛釘

Lit. bag-hanging nail. A bamboo or iron nail inserted into the middle post, *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
fukusa 袱紗

Also chabukusa 茶袱紗. A thick silk cloth used by the host at a tea ceremony to wipe tea bowls, *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
fumi-ishi 踏石 ✓

Lit. stepping stone. The stone placed directly under the crawl door entrance, *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
fumikomi-datami 踏込畳

A straw mat, *tatami 畳, which is placed adjacent to the door from which the…

Architecture, Tea Houses
fumikomidoko 踏込床 ✓

Also fungomidoko ふんごみ床. An alcove, *tokonoma 床の間, with a board floor…

Architecture, Tea Houses
fuminugiishi 踏脱石

Lit. one of the trump stones, *yaku-ishi 役石, at the guest's entrance to the…

Architecture, Tea Houses
fumiwake-ishi 踏分石 ✓

Lit. path-dividing stone. A type of trump stone, *yaku-ishi 役石. A stepping…

Architecture, Tea Houses
furo 風炉 ✓

A portable brazier used in the spring and summer seasons when the hearth or fire-box, *ro…

Architecture, Tea Houses
furosaki byōbu 風炉先屏風

Sometimes abbreviated to furosaki 風炉先. A partition used in a tea ceremony room *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
furosakimado 風炉先窓

Lit. window in front of stove. A window opened in the wall by the host's mat, *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
futaoki 蓋置 ✓

A stand, made of ceramic, bamboo, or metal, on which the lid of a tea ceremony kettle is placed. When the cover is placed on…

Architecture, Tea Houses

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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