| 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 | |
| machinami 町並 | Also pronounced chōnami. |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| machiya 町家 | 1 Also written 町屋. One of the two main categories of vernacular house *minka… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| magariya 曲り屋 | ✓ | Also written 曲屋. A farmhouse, nōka 農家, with a room that housed stables *umaya… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| magariya-zukuri 曲屋造 | A general term for farmhouses with an L-shaped plan *magariya 曲り屋 |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| mata-zukuri 股造 | 1 A structural system employing posts called *matabashira 股柱, which… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| matabashira 股柱 | A type of post found in vernacular houses *minka 民家, of the 17th… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| mawarikumiido 回り組井戸 | A well with a particular arrangement of stone sidings for its top and shaft lining. It has four lining elements each of… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| minja みんじゃ | 1 A dialect variant of *mizuya 水屋, used in the Edo period to designate an… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| minka 民家 | A general term for vernacular dwellings of the ancient, medieval, or premodern periods, or rebuilt in the style of the… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| mise 店 | Also pronounced tana. |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| misedana 見世棚 | Also written 店棚. |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| misedoma 店土間 | The front part of the earthen-floored area *doma 土間, in urban vernacular… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| miseniwa 店庭 | The space outside the front part of the earthern-floored area *doma 土間 of… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| miseoku 店奥 | Lit. "beyond the shop." A term used most commonly in the Kinai 畿内 district and Kii 紀伊 (Wakayama Prefecture), during the Edo… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| mizuya 水屋 | ✓ | 1 Also written 水遣, 水谷, 水舎. Also called *daidokoro 台所, *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings |
| monohoshidai 物干し台 | A railed timber platform built on the roofs of urban vernacular houses *machiya… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| monzengō 門前郷 | A type of settlement of lesser officials and servants which developed around the precincts of great shrines and temples… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| monzenmachi 門前町 | Also pronunced monzenchō. A settlement in front of the main gate of a temple (or *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| mukaidaidokoro 向台所 | A second raised-floor area at the lower end *shimote 下手, of… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| munamochibashira 棟持柱 | ✓ | Also osabashira 小狭柱 or futabashira 二柱. A generic name for pillars which rise from the ground to… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| muro 室 | 1 In Japan's earliest compilations, the 8th century Kojiki 古事記 and Nihon shoki 日本書紀, a… |
Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings | |
| mushamado 武者窓 | ✓ | Also bukemado 武家窓, bugyōmado 奉行窓. Edo period windows with heavy vertical lattice bars, used in castle… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings |
| mushiko gōshi 虫籠格子 | Also written 蒸子格子. A type of lattice *kōshi 格子 used on windows… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| mushikomado 虫籠窓 | ✓ | A type of window containing a lattice of *mushiko gōshi 虫籠格子, set into the upper part… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
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