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agokaki 腮欠 ✓

Lit. chin gap. One of many types of cogging joints. The joint is used to attach a horizontal timber to the face of a square…

Architecture, Joints
aigaki 相欠 ✓

Also written 合欠. A lap or halving joint. When used at a corner, it is called a corner lap joint. When used where two members…

Architecture, Joints
aijakuri 合決

A shiplap joint or halving joint. Also written 相決.

Architecture, Joints
ari 蟻

Lit. dovetail shape. Also arigata 蟻形. The generic term for any part of a joint in a dovetail shape. The earliest…

Architecture, Joints
aridome 蟻留 ✓

A type of right angle, mitered, housed, and dovetail joint used mainly on flat timber as, for example, in the upper…

Architecture, Joints
arigata aigakihozo 蟻形相欠ほぞ

Also arigata aihozo 蟻形相ほぞ. Dovetail halving. A type of half-lap dovetail joint *…

Architecture, Joints
arihozo 蟻ほぞ ✓

Lit. dovetail tenon. Also *arikake 蟻掛. A tenon shaped like a dove's tail with…

Architecture, Joints
arikake 蟻掛

1 A dovetail joint with the dovetail tenon cut at the butt end about half the depth of one beam. It then is…

Architecture, Joints
arikubi 蟻首

Lit. dovetail neck. 


1 The rear part of a dovetail joint which is in line with the surface…

Architecture, Joints
ariotoshi 蟻落

Also called *arikake 蟻掛. 

1 A simple angle joint…

Architecture, Joints
aritsugi 蟻継 ✓

A dovetail joint used to attach the ends of two boards. The tenon *hozo ほぞ or…

Architecture, Joints
arizuri 蟻吊

Also written 蟻釣. A type of angled wood joint. A dovetail tenon *arihozo…

Architecture, Joints
kai no kuchitsugi 貝の口継 ✓

Lit. shell mouth joint. A straight end-to-end joint *tsugite 継手 used for very…

Architecture, Joints
kakikomi 欠込 ✓

Also pronounced kakikomu; watarikakitsugi 渡欠継. Also written kakikomu 缺込む in old sources. One of…

Architecture, Joints
kakitsugi 欠継 A scarf joint used to join two timber members together to form one continuous piece.
Architecture, Joints
kakiuchi 欠打 ✓

A nailed right angled joint made on two crossed structural members by cutting a notch into one timber equal to the width of…

Architecture, Joints
kakushiaridome 隠蟻留 ✓

Lit. a hidden mitered dovetail joint, or blind mitered dovetail joint. Also called kakushiarigata kumitsugi 隠蟻形組接…

Architecture, Joints

kama 鎌
A gooseneck tenon. A tenon cut with a long neck (thought to resemble the neck and elongated head of a goose), blunted on the… Architecture, Joints
kamatsugi 鎌継 ✓

A gooseneck tenon and mortise joint. The mortise is cut into one section, and the tenon, with head and neck a single member…

Architecture, Joints
kanawa tsugi 金輪継 ✓

An oblique, housed (dadoed), rabbeted, T-shaped, half-blind, tenoned scarf joint. Because both the tenon and mortise are…

Architecture, Joints
kerakubi 螻首

1 A tenon *hozo ほぞ and mortise *…

Architecture, Joints
kikugi 木釘

A wooden nail. The term applies to dowels, also called joggles *daboso 太ぼぞ, pins kumisen 込栓 or daisen…

Architecture, Joints
koguchiari 木口蟻

A right-angled dovetail joint used to connect the corners of sills and footings. Its significant feature is that the end of…

Architecture, Joints
kokihozo 扱ほぞ ✓

Also pronounced kokibozo. Any tenon that gradually narrows toward its outer end.

Architecture, Joints
konehozo 小根ほぞ ✓

An angle joint *shiguchi 仕口 with a rabbeted tenon *…

Architecture, Joints
koshiire mechigaitsuki aritsugi 腰入目違付蟻継 ✓

A half-lapped, half-blind, tenoned dovetail joint. The indented piece is cut with a bench (hip, koshi 腰), open in…

Architecture, Joints
koshikake aritsugi 腰掛蟻継 ✓

A half-lap, dovetailed joint. Also shikimen aritsugi 敷面蟻継, shikimen arihozotsugi 敷面蟻ほぞ継, koshikake…

Architecture, Joints
koshikake kamatsugi 腰掛鎌継 ✓

Also shikimen kamatsugi 敷面鎌継. A half-lap, gooseneck tenon joint. An end joint which combines two joints: a half-lap…

Architecture, Joints
koshikake 腰掛

Lit. Lap or bench. A basic part of many joints. Although similar to the *aigaki…

Architecture, Joints
koshikaketsugi 腰掛継

Also *koshi 腰; kasanetsugi 重継. Lit. seat joint. A simple…

Architecture, Joints
kumite 組手

A generic term used in Japanese wood architecture to refer to the joining of one member to another by means of various types…

Architecture, Joints
kusabi 楔 ✓

A wedge. Easily identified by its isosceles triangle shape. Its two main sides slant from its relatively wide top to a very…

Architecture, Joints

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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