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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
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
ageya 揚屋

Also called ageya jaya 揚屋茶屋. A type of town house *machiya 町家, found…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
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
ama 天

1 A rack with an open lattice frame of timber or bamboo, suspended from the main crossbeams *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
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
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
jihiro 地火炉

Also read jikaro.

1 A hearth *ro 炉 excavated in…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
jimune 地棟

A base ridge.

1 A longitudinal timber plate resting upon the principal transverse roof beams *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jinaimachi 寺内町

Also jinaichō. A type of religious township that developed in the Sengoku period in connection mainly with temples…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jiro 地炉

Also *ro 炉

1 A hearth constructed in an earth…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jishin bansho 自身番所

The office or guardroom provided in each city ward *machi 町, in the city of Edo…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jizaikagi 自在鈎 ✓

A pothook. A device that enables a pot nabe 鍋 or tea kettle tetsubin 鉄瓶 to be suspended over a sunken…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses
jōgo zukuri 漏斗造

Also called jōgomune 漏斗棟. A roof-style found on vernacular houses *minka…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jōi 上居

Also written 常居.

1 A principal everyday living room in traditional vernacular houses *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jōya 上屋

Lit. upper house. Principal part of farmhouse structure. The central portion of the cross-section of the structural frame in…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jōyabashira 上屋柱

1 The posts which support the ends of the principal transverse beams *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jōyageta 上屋桁

The purlins or plates *keta 桁, supported on the main frame posts *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings

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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