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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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| jabara ita 蛇腹板 | ✓ | Lit. snake belly board. The boards lined up under the thick eave ends nokizuke 軒付 of a cypress bark *… |
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| jabara 蛇腹 | Lit. snake's belly. |
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| jabara shirin 蛇腹支輪 | ✓ | Also called honshirin 本支輪 (main shirin). A short, curved, non-supporting transitional member that connects… |
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| jabara tenjō 蛇腹天井 | ✓ | Lit. snake belly ceiling. An open or exposed ceiling composed of curved, parallel rafters, thought to resemble a snake's… |
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| jabaragawa 蛇腹皮 | Lit. snake skin. The boards lined up under the thick eave ends nokizuke 軒付 of a cypress bark *… |
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| jari 砂利 | Gravel, small stones, or pebbles. A corrupted form of sazare 細 meaning tiny stones. Jari have been given… |
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| jidaruki 地垂木 | Also called omodaruki 母垂木. A base rafter that extends outward from the roof framework, generally the eave purlin *… |
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| jien hikaku 地円飛角 | ✓ | Also read chien hikaku. Double eaves *futanoki 二軒, composed of base… |
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| jifuku 地覆 | 1 A sleeper. The lowermost horizontal beam that spans the width of a bay *… |
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| jifuku-ishi 地覆石 | Also written 地幅石. A long horizontal base stone, sometimes called a sleeper, or a continuous plinth course. It is placed at… |
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| jifuku nageshi 地覆長押 | Also jinageshi 地長押. A non-penetrating tie beam that is shaped to fit snugly around the base of a pillar. |
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| jigyō 地業 | Also 地形 chikei. The preliminary foundation work on a building. Materials for this include: rubble *… |
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| jikuana 軸穴 | Also 軸孔; jikuzuriana 軸吊穴; jiku uke 軸受; tobira jikuana 扉軸穴. The socket into which the pivot hinge… |
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| jikubu 軸部 | The framework or body of a building between the foundation and the roof structure. In traditional architecture it includes… |
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| jikuzuri 軸吊 | ✓ | Also written 軸釣, 軸摺. Pivot hinge. A metal covered wooden-core pivot inserted into a socket *… |
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| jinuki 地貫 | Also called shimonuki 下貫. A penetrating tie beam at the base of a pillar or a tie beam beneath a building's… |
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| jisumigi 地隅木 | A base hip rafter found at the corners of a roof. Ordinary rafters *jidaruki… |
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| jizō gōshi 地蔵格子 | A latticed door made with both horizontal and vertical laths at the same surface level. There are no recessed laths nailed… |
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| jō 畳 | Also written 帖. |
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| Jōdokyō bijutsu 浄土教美術 | Art of the Pure Land faith. Originating in the Nara period, Pure Land Buddhism is a more personal form of the faith than… |
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| Jōgan gishiki 貞観儀式 | The Jōgan gishiki is a ten volume collection of ceremony regulations compiled by Fujiwara Ujimune 藤原氏宗 by order of… |
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| Jōmon jidai 繩文時代 | Lit. cord-mark period. The Jōmon period ran from ca. 10,000 BC-ca. 300 BC. The period takes its name from the decoration on… |
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| jōsei kidan 上成基壇 | ✓ | The upper level of a two-stepped podium *nijū kidan 二重基壇. The lower level is… |
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| jōyabari 上屋梁 | Principal transverse beam. The beam that receives the diagonal braces at the end of a gable roof. It also supports the ridge… |
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