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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
gakumi-ishi 額見石

Lit. plaque-viewing stone. One of the trump stones *yakui-ishi 役石 in the…

Architecture, Tea Houses
gamamushiro tenjō 蒲蓆天井 ✓

Also called gamatenjō 蒲天井. A wood-board ceiling to which reed-mace, braided straw or rush mats are attached.…

Architecture, Tea Houses
gangidana 雁木棚

Also aikidana 合木棚 or kangidana 函木棚. An alcove in a *shoin…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses
ganro-no-seki 丸炉席

Also called chadō 茶堂. A tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室 which…

Architecture, Tea Houses
ganro 丸炉

Also called *ganro-no-seki 丸炉席. A cylindrical iron stove used in a tea…

Architecture, Tea Houses
ganwaridoko 龕破床

Also called ganaidoko, gangōdoko 龕合床. An alcove with the floor board the same height as the matted room, a…

Architecture, Tea Houses
garan-ishi 伽藍石

Also garanseki 伽藍石. Lit. temple stone. A base stone from a ruined temple used as a stepping stone *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
gensōdoko 原叟床

A style of alcove *tokonoma 床の間, attributed to Kakukasai Sōsa 覚々斎宗左…

Architecture, Tea Houses
gezadoko-no-seki 下座床の席

A tearoom with a decorative alcove *tokonoma 床の間 placed behind the host's mat…

Architecture, Tea Houses
gezadoko 下座床

Lit. lower seat alcove. An alcove *tokonoma 床の間, positioned behind the host's…

Architecture, Tea Houses
gyakugatte 逆勝手

The reverse arrangement of the fire-box or hearth in a tea ceremony room, or when the guest's mat *…

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