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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… |
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| 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… |
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| aijakuri 合決 | A shiplap joint or halving joint. Also written 相決. |
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| ari 蟻 | Lit. dovetail shape. Also arigata 蟻形. The generic term for any part of a joint in a dovetail shape. The earliest… |
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| aridome 蟻留 | ✓ | A type of right angle, mitered, housed, and dovetail joint used mainly on flat timber as, for example, in the upper… |
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| 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 *… |
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| arihozo 蟻ほぞ | ✓ | Lit. dovetail tenon. Also *arikake 蟻掛. A tenon shaped like a dove's tail with… |
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| 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… |
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| arikubi 蟻首 | Lit. dovetail neck.
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| ariotoshi 蟻落 | Also called *arikake 蟻掛. |
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| aritsugi 蟻継 | ✓ | A dovetail joint used to attach the ends of two boards. The tenon *hozo ほぞ or… |
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| arizuri 蟻吊 | Also written 蟻釣. A type of angled wood joint. A dovetail tenon *arihozo… |
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| kai no kuchitsugi 貝の口継 | ✓ | Lit. shell mouth joint. A straight end-to-end joint *tsugite 継手 used for very… |
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| kakikomi 欠込 | ✓ | Also pronounced kakikomu; watarikakitsugi 渡欠継. Also written kakikomu 缺込む in old sources. One of… |
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| kakitsugi 欠継 | A scarf joint used to join two timber members together to form one continuous piece. |
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| 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… |
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| kakushiaridome 隠蟻留 | ✓ | Lit. a hidden mitered dovetail joint, or blind mitered dovetail joint. Also called kakushiarigata kumitsugi 隠蟻形組接… |
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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… |
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| kanawa tsugi 金輪継 | ✓ | An oblique, housed (dadoed), rabbeted, T-shaped, half-blind, tenoned scarf joint. Because both the tenon and mortise are… |
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| kerakubi 螻首 | 1 A tenon *hozo ほぞ and mortise *… |
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| kikugi 木釘 | A wooden nail. The term applies to dowels, also called joggles *daboso 太ぼぞ, pins kumisen 込栓 or daisen… |
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| 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… |
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| kokihozo 扱ほぞ | ✓ | Also pronounced kokibozo. Any tenon that gradually narrows toward its outer end. |
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| konehozo 小根ほぞ | ✓ | An angle joint *shiguchi 仕口 with a rabbeted tenon *… |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| koshikake 腰掛 | Lit. Lap or bench. A basic part of many joints. Although similar to the *aigaki… |
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| koshikaketsugi 腰掛継 | Also *koshi 腰; kasanetsugi 重継. Lit. seat joint. A simple… |
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| 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… |
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| kusabi 楔 | ✓ | A wedge. Easily identified by its isosceles triangle shape. Its two main sides slant from its relatively wide top to a very… |
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