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| agesage shōji 上下障子 | ✓ | Also called *suriage shōji 摺上障子. A sliding door frame covered with… |
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| aikugi 合釘 | ✓ | Also kurekugi 呉釘, kirikugi 切釘. A straight nail with both ends pointed. It is made of wood, bamboo, iron,… |
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| 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… |
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| akari shōji 明障子 | ✓ | One type of *shōji 障子. A translucent screen or sliding door made by pasting… |
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| aki 明 | Also written 空; kūgeki 空隙, ma 間. Lit. empty, gap, space. The space between two structural parts. For… |
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| akkon 圧痕 | Evidence left on load bearing members by beams *hari 梁, *… |
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| amado 雨戸 | 1 Wooden shutters constructed at the various openings of a building. They slide out from a special storage… |
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| 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… |
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| amagumi 疎組 | ✓ | Also read mabaragumi; also written 阿麻組 amagumi. A bracket complex *… |
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| amajimai 雨仕舞 | Weather stripping, flashing, a rain guard, or any device used to prevent leaks or deflect rainwater. A hōju roban… |
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| amakatsura-ishi 雨葛石 | A curbstone that runs horizontally along the top edge of a podium *danjōzumi… |
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| 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,… |
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| amashōji 雨障子 | Also called aburashōji 油障子. A type of translucent paper-covered window found most often in tea ceremony houses *… |
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| ananai 麻生 | An ancient word for *ashiba 足場 or ashishiro 足代, scaffolding made of… |
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| aori hafu 障泥破風 | Lit. curved bargeboard. An archaic term for *chidori haru 千鳥破風, a… |
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| aori-ita 障泥板 | ✓ | Also read afuri-ita; irakaōi 甍覆. 1 A thick board attached to the edge of a veranda… |
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| 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 *… |
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| 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… |
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| arakabe 荒壁 | The first layer of mud plaster applied to the lath *komai 小舞, that… |
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| arikabe 蟻壁 | 1 A narrow horizontal strip of wall between a long, light, binding beam *… |
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| ashi 足 | Lit. leg or foot. Also 脚, read ashi or kyaku. |
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| ashiagekura 足揚倉 | Also simply called *ashiage 足揚. A type of thatched storehouse set upon a… |
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| ashiba 足場 | Scaffold or scaffolding. A temporary, elevated structure used to support workmen, tools, etc. when erecting a building.… |
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| ashigatame 足固 | Also written 脚固, 足堅. Strong, horizontal ties which strengthen the posts beneath the floor of a timber building by… |
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| ashimoto 足元 | 1 A general term for all structural members from the foundation *dodai… |
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| ashiwake 葦分け | Lit. split reed. A style of round-stone paving *tama-ishijiki 玉石敷 of the… |
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| Asuka jidai 飛鳥時代 | The Asuka period (538/552-645). So called because the capital of the new Yamato 大和 region was located in the Asuka district… |
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| 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… |
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| aware あわれ | The capacity to be moved deeply, an aesthetic ideal associated with Heian period literature and aristocratic values. An… |
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| azegi 校木 | ✓ | Also pronounced azeki. Chamfered logs used to build walls for storehouses *… |
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| ibara 茨 | Also called iga いが. Lit. cusp. 1 The point where two curved lines or forms meet. The… |
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| ichiboku kaidan 一木階段 | A ladder hewed from a single log during the Yayoi period. |
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| ichimai biraki 一枚開 | A single window or door opening. Also, a single door or window. They may swing on hinges one way, both ways, or slide. |
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| ichimonji dana 一文字棚 | A term used in all parts of Japan in the Edo period, for a straight shelf *tana… |
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| igeta 井桁 | 1 A generic term for any group of structural members set in a grid pattern. 2 The… |
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| ijō kōbai 居定勾配 | Also abbreviated to ijō 居定. The degree of pitch on the underside of a rafter support *… |
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| ikebana 生け花 | Lit. to keep flowers alive. Flower arrangements. Originated in Buddhist flower offerings kuge 供花 from the 6th… |
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| iki いき | The aesthetic ideal of the Edo merchant class during the late 18th and 19th centuries, combining material sensuality and… |
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| inago 稲子 | Slip fasteners. The wooden or bamboo pieces used on the reverse side of the overlapped boards of a board-and-batten ceiling… |
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| inokosasu 豕扠首 | ✓ | Also sasuzuka sasuzaoshiki 扠首束扠首竿式, *sasuzao 扠首竿, *… |
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| inubashiri 犬走り | Also written 犬行. Lit. dog run. A narrow inset in wall ramparts, or in an embankment of earth forming a footpath or ledge.… |
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| inufusegi 犬防木 | Also pronounced inubōgi. 1 In temples and shrines, a lattice *… |
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| inuyarai 犬矢来 | ✓ | Also called komafusegi 駒防ぎ. Concave screens about 60 cm high and of varying length made of closely-spaced bent… |
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| ippan zu 一般図 | General drawings which reflect all the contents of a building, its plan and design. Such drawings must depict the function… |
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| ireko-ita 入子板 | ✓ | Also called *wata-ita 綿板. Thin panels of wood inserted between the rails … |
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| irigawabashira 入側柱 | Also called moyabashira 母屋柱 or 身舎柱. Pillars that are erected inside and parallel to the pillars positioned on the… |
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| iriguchiwaku 入口枠 | A door frame made of a head lintel and vertical door jambs to which doors are attached with hinges. |
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| irihashibashira 入端柱 | Pillars *hashira 柱 at the inner boundary of a pent roof… |
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| irikawa 入側 | 1 A corridor or passageway between the main body of a residence and the veranda. It is also found in temple… |
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| irikawageta 入側桁 | Purlins, *keta 桁, placed along the tops of pillars surrounding the… |
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| irimoya hafu 入母屋破風 | The bargeboards on the gable end of a hip-and-gable roof *irimoya yane… |
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| irimoya yane 母屋屋根 | A hip-and-gable roof. In Japanese architecture, the gable part is usually over the core area of the building, *… |
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| irimoya-zukuri 入母屋造 | ✓ | A hip-and-gable roof construction, or a building with this roof construction. A gable type roof has a ridge and gable… |
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| irisumi 入隅 | ✓ | The internal angle made by the junction of two planes, such as walls, a wall and ceiling, or the inside angle made by the… |
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| ishibadate 石場建 | Also kanokodate 鹿の子建 and ishitsuki 石付. A technique used at a folk dwelling to attach a pillar to a… |
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| ishiguchi 石口 | The point at which a base stone and a pillar are joined. The upper surface of a plinth stone on which another stone may be… |
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| ishiwari 石割 | 1 The cutting and arrangement of stones. |
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| ita 板 | Also written 鈑 or 版. Originally a relatively thin flat timber, stone, or sheet of metal. In the medieval period (1185-1568… |
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| ita ishi 板石 | A thin, flat stone resembling a board. Also called a plate stone. The stone can be divided into three types depending on the… |
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| ita ranma 板欄間 | ✓ | Traditional transoms that are made of wood and have sections filled with a single board, or one or two parts are filled with… |
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| ita tenjō 板天井 | Also called itabari tenjō 板張天井 or *hariita tenjō 張板天井… |
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| itabei 板塀 | A wooden board or plank fence. Wooden fences made of planks and set directly into the ground are called hottate itabei… |
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| itabi 板碑 | ✓ | One type of pagoda or stupa, tōba 塔婆, in the form of a flat stone stele that became prevalent in the early 13th… |
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| itabuki 板葺 | ✓ | Wood shingles. Widely used in Japan for buildings of many kinds, ranging from palaces, elite residences, shrines, and… |
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| itabuki yane 板葺屋根 | A roof structure covered with boards or planks. Various names are used depending on the size of the boards. A large plan… |
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| itachigai 板違 | ✓ | Wooden panels with the grain set in alternating directions in a coffered ceiling *… |
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| itadatami 板畳 | 1 The boards covered by tightly woven straw mats *tatami 畳,… |
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| itago 板子 | An Edo period term for wooden planks with a rectangular cross-section, between 5 cm and 30 cm thick. These planks were cut… |
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| itajiki 板敷 | A common type of wooden board flooring commonly used before thick straw matting *tatami… |
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| itakarado 板唐戸 | ✓ | Also read itagarado; also called itatobira 板扉. A 6th-7th century door made of a single, thick wooden plank… |
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| itame 板目 | ✓ | 1 A board cut in such a way that the grain lines are not parallel but instead are rather pointed or having irregular wavy… | Architecture, General Terms |
| itanoki 板軒 | ✓ | Thick boards used to cover exposed base rafters visible under eaves. Examples: Eihōji Kannondō 永保寺観音堂 (1315), Gifu… |
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| itaosae 板押 | Also read itaoshi. Battens used to prevent boards from moving. They are long, thin strips of wood set vertically… |
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| itomasa 糸柾 | A shortened form of itomasame 糸柾目. Straight, narrow grained wood. Two examples are Japanese arborvitae, nezuko… |
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| itomen 糸面 | A very narrow, chamfer about 3 mm wide, made by planing the corners of posts. The term has been used from the 17th century… |
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| itsutesaki 五手先 | A rare five-stepped bracket complex found at a temple on Sado 佐渡 Island, Niigata Prefecture. |
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