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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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| kabe shitaji 壁下地 | The framework for a mud-plastered wall. It consists of lath, bamboo crosspieces *… |
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| kabegaki 壁垣 | A generic term for shrine fences *tamagaki 玉垣. A fence built at shrines from… |
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| kabekomai 壁小舞 | ✓ | Also written 壁木舞. Thinly split lath set vertically and horizontally to form the framework *… |
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| kabemochi bashira 壁持柱 | Small diameter posts set between two pillars to support horizontal circular laths called kabemawatashi 壁間渡. The… |
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| kabewatadono 壁渡殿 | Lit. walled bridge corridor. An archaic term for a type of corridor that connects two buildings in a Heian period… |
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| kabuki 歌舞伎 | The most popular form of theatre among townspeople in Japan since the early Edo period. The form has its origins in the… |
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| kabuki 冠木 | Also 衡木. A horizontal timber, lintel, or crossbar. |
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| kadozuka 角束 | A short strut used at the corners of podii *kidan 基壇, or a dais *… |
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| kaerumata 蟇股 | ✓ | Frog-leg strut. A strut with legs spread like those of a frog. Kaerumata in the early Nara period developed from an… |
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| kagami ita 鏡板 | Boards or panels planed to a perfectly smooth surface and employed for ceilings or flooring. An example is a thin board… |
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| kagami no ma 鏡の間 | Lit. mirror room. A room separated by a curtain from the passageway hashigakari 橋掛り leading to a noh stage *… |
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| kagami tenjō 鏡天井 | ✓ | Also kagamiita tenjō 鏡板天井. Lit. mirror ceiling. A flat ceiling made of smoothly planed boards shiraki… |
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| kagemori 影盛 | ✓ | A plastered roof ornament on storehouses *dozō 土蔵. Located at the ends of… |
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| kagobori 篭彫 | ✓ | Purfled work. Lit. basket carving. A type of decorative wood carving used on beam projections *… |
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| kai 階 | Floor or storey, and also a counter for floors in a building. For example, nikai 二階 refers to the second floor or… |
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| kaidaka 階高 | The distance from the floor of one story to the floor of the next story. The topmost story is measurement from the floor to… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kaidan 階段 | One or more steps composed of a tread dan ita 段板 or fumi ita 踏板 and a riser *… |
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| kaigata 貝形 | ✓ | 1 A trapezoid. |
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| kaikō 開口 | Also kaikō ana 開口穴; kaikōbu 開口部. A generic term for an opening made in a wall for a door and window, in… |
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| kaimono 飼物 | Any kind of material used to fill a gap. If the basic material is wood, then wood filler is used. Gaps in stone walls are… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kaiorekugi 貝折釘 | ✓ | Also written 皆折釘. A large, square, angular nail used for wooden or bamboo fences. Its head is bent at right angles but has a… |
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| kajū 荷重 | Also ni 荷. Lit. load. The downward pressure exerted by the roof structure, purlins, transverse beams, etc. on the… |
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| kakebana 懸鼻 | ✓ | Also read kakehana, and written 掛鼻. A decorative nosing *kibana 木鼻… |
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| kakikubi 欠首 | A neck-like part under a bulbous-topped post *giboshi 擬宝珠. It resembles the… |
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| kaku 閣 | ✓ | 1 A tower or a palace. For example, tenshukaku 天守閣 is the keep or dungeon of a castle. See *… |
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| kaku 角 | Also seikakuzai 正角材. A term used for any square building material. For example post is called kakubashira 角柱. | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kaku zukuri 角造 | 1 A generic term for structural members that are square in cross section. Examples are found on the steps… |
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| kakugōshi tamagaki 角格子玉垣 | Also called kakutamagaki 角玉垣 or *tatehigo tamagaki 竪籤玉垣. A… |
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| kakurenji 角連子 | Lit. square lattice. Lattice that is square in cross section. A single section of lattice is called renjiko 連子子.… |
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| kakuzai 角材 | Any cut timber that is square in cross section. |
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| kamachi 框 | 1 The frame, rail or stile of a door, window or sliding screen *shōji… |
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| Kamakura jidai 鎌倉時代 | The Kamakura period (1185-1332) is named for the city in modern Kanagawa Prefecture where Minamoto no Yoritomo 源頼朝 (1147-99… |
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| kame no o 亀の尾 | ✓ | Lit. tortoise tail. Short, diagonally set ribs with thin wooden strips called jaboko 蛇骨子 or koebi 小海老,… |
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| kamebara 亀腹 | Also called *manjūgata 饅頭形. Lit. tortoise belly. |
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| kami no jū 上の重 | Lit. upper floor. Refers to the second story of a two-storied structure. *Jū 重… |
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| kamigamachi 上框 | The top rail or the uppermost horizontal door stile. Also kamizan 上桟. |
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| kamite 上手 | Lit. upper hand. Upper end or high end. The position or seat of higher rank, or the superior position in a hierarchy. In… |
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| kamoi 鴨居 | ✓ | A generic term for a head jamb. Unlike the lintel *magusa まぐさ, kamoi… |
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| Kan'ei bunka 寛永文化 | Kan'ei culture. The culture of the Kan'ei era (1624-44) and by extension that of the whole early Edo period *… |
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| kanabakari-zu 矩計図 | Sectional details. Also kanabakari 矩計. A detailed drawing of the specific parts of a structure in a scale larger… |
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| kaname 要 | A term used for the imaginary center point from which fan rafters *ōgidaruki… |
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| kanbutsu-e 潅仏会 | A ceremony held every year to commemorate Buddha's *Shaka 釈迦 birthday, April 8th… |
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| kaneguchi no nuki 鐘口貫 | A penetrating beam *nuki 貫 that is inserted into the structure of a belfry *… |
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| kanehō 矩方 | A line running at a right angle to another line, or something that moves at a direction of 90 degrees relative to something… |
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| kanekōbai 矩勾配 | The 45 degree pitch of the hypotenuse, the side opposite the right angle, of an isosceles right-angled triangle. A right… |
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| kannuki 閂 | ✓ | A gate bar. A heavy piece of timber or iron used to affix a plank door to its structure. The kannuki is slipped… |
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| kansha 官社 | 1 Shrines which in the Nara and Heian periods received special government supported status. These shrines… |
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| kanshinjiyō 観心寺様 | A composite style that includes a mixture of architectural elements from the daibutsu style *… |
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| karado 唐戸 | Either double plank doors *itakarado 板唐戸 in a single opening or paneled… |
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| karadomen 唐戸面 | ✓ | A molding found on the corners of pillars, sills, etc, often used on paneled doors such as *… |
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| karagaki 唐垣 | Lit. Chinese fence. Also written 韓垣 meaning a Korean fence.
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| karahafu 唐破風 | ✓ | An undulating bargeboard. The shape of a karahafu flows downward from the top center with convex-curves on each… |
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| karaishiki 唐居敷 | ✓ | Also pronounced karaijiki. An abbreviationof kara-ishishiki 唐石敷.
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| karakami shōji 唐紙障子 | Also called *karakami 唐紙. A term used in the late 19th century for opaque… |
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| karaki 唐木 | Also pronounced tōboku; also meiboku 銘木. Timber from the tropics including red sandalwood (rosewood… |
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| karasu tobi 烏鳶 | Also written 烏飛び. |
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| karasugami 烏紙 | Lit. crow paper. Very black paper used under straw mats *tatami 畳. |
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| kasa-ishi 笠石 | Coping stones. A finish on the tops of fences and stone walls to protect them from weathering. Also used on the tops of the… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kasa-ita 笠板 | 1 A crowning board. Similar to the lid placed at the top of storage boxes for rain shutters *… |
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| Kasei bunka 化政文化 | The culture of the Bunka 文化 (1804-18) and Bunsei 文政 eras (1818-30), and by extension, that of the late Edo period as a whole… |
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| kashiranageshi 頭長押 | A horizontal, non-penetrating head beam nailed along the outside and inside of the top face of pillars. If the nails show,… |
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| kashiranuki 頭貫 | ✓ | Horizontal head penetrating tie beams that are connected to the tops of pillars to make them secure. These tie beams may be… |
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| kasugai 鎹 | ✓ | A cleat. A strip of metal or wood driven into two members to hold them together securely. A metal cleat that is bent at each… |
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| kasumi 霞 | ✓ | 1 A pattern representing mist, often stylized into shapes like the ideographs 工 or 王. It is used as a… |
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| kata-ita 形板 | Also written 型板. A template. Boards cut with designs that can be traced onto members that require moldings. For example, the… |
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| katabiki shōji 片引障子 | ✓ | Also katahiki shōji. A single, horizontally sliding translucent screen *shōji… |
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| katabikido 片引戸 | Lit. one-way pull door. A single leaf sliding door that is pulled left and right to open and close. There are two sliding… |
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| katabiraki 片開 | Lit. single swinging door. A rotating door katabirakido 片開戸, or window katabirakimado 片開窓, that… |
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| katamen-zukuri 片面造 | A construction method that uses half brackets on top of the corners in the inner worship sanctuary *… |
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| katanagare 片流 | Also *nagare 流. The slope, in one direction, of one side of a… |
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