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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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| ō-itabuki 大板葺 | Large wooden shingles which are about 30 cm wide and are laid from the ridge to the eaves. Where the shingles need to be… |
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| ōatsuzai 応圧材 | A load-bearing structural member. Refers to any structural element which supports the roof including pillars *… |
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| ōbaku tenjō 黄檗天井 | ✓ | Also called wadaruki 輪垂木. An open ceiling found in Buddhist temples of the Ōbaku 黄檗 sect. The architectural style… |
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| obido 帯戸 | ✓ | Also called obisando 帯桟戸. A simple wooden door made of thin boards with rails at top and bottom and stiles, left… |
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| ōbiki 大引 | ✓ | Also obiki 尾引. Sleepers about 10 cm sq. that extend horizontally at right angle to posts that are erected on a sill… |
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| ochi-en 落縁 | ✓ | A outer veranda constructed a step lower than the adjacent floor. It may also be constructed one step lower than a broad… |
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| ochigakari 落掛 | The junction point of a horizontal and diagonal structural member. For example, the point where the bottom of the hip rafter… |
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| odaruki 尾垂木 | ✓ | A tail rafter. A large rafter which usually extends through the second step of a 3-stepped bracket complex *… |
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| odawarabuki 小田原葺 | Also called da-itabuki 駄板葺. A shingled roof which has bamboo battens and or stones to hold the shingles in place.… |
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| ogami 拝 | Lit. "praying." |
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| ōgidaruki 扇垂木 | ✓ | Fan rafters. There are two arrangements: those that radiate from a center point on each side of the building; or those that… |
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| oigata taiheizuka 笈形大瓶束 | ✓ | A bottle strut *taiheizuka 大瓶束, with a sculptural decoration called … |
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| ōkabe 大壁 | A wall which is completely plastered so that the pillars or posts are not visible. This method is common for the… |
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| ōkabe-zukuri 大壁造 | ✓ | 1 A style or method of constructing a wall, in which the basic framework for plastering is made on the… |
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| okashi おかし | 1 Charming, or delightful. An approach to the aesthetic indicating a carefree appreciation of objects and… |
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| Okazarisho 御飾書 | Shogun Ashikaga's 足利 book of tea ceremony implement arrangement, thought to have been written by Sōami 相阿弥 (1455-1525), a… |
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| okoshi-ezu 起絵図 | Also called tate-ezu 建絵図. A fold-up, three-dimensional plan drawn on paper, to show the interior of rooms assembled… |
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| oku 奥 | 1 The interior or heart of something. The furthermost, innermost or ultimate space in a sequence of spaces… |
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| oku-in 奥院 | An inner sanctuary. The part of a temple most remote from the main entrance. An example is the Keikyū-in 桂宮院, at Kōryūji… |
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| okurito 送斗 | ✓ | Also called uketo 受斗. A bearing block, longer than but shaped very much like the *… |
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| okuyuki 奥行 | The depth or distance from front to rear of an object, piece of furniture, room, building, plot of land etc. It may be… |
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| ōkyokuzai 応曲材 | A general term for structural members that sustain pressure horizontally. Transverse beams *… |
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| ōma 大間 | 1 A gate mon 門, with multiple pillars with large intervals between them. |
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| omote 表 | Lit. "the front, surface, or exterior of something." |
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| ōmune 大棟 | Architecture, General Terms | ||
| ōnaoshi 大直 | The second layer of a plastered wall. The first layer of a plastered wall is made of a rough clay-sod or mud-plaster mixture… |
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| oniwaku 鬼枠 | A type of saw horse on which to place timber so that a carpenter can cut it easily. Two posts are sunk directly into the… |
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| ōnoki 大軒 | Lit. "a big eave." An eave made of long base rafters *jidaruki 地垂木, which is… |
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| ōnuki 大貫 | An archaic term for a tie beam roughly 3.6 m long by 11 cm wide by 2.5 cm thick. Cedar or cypress were commonly used. Now… |
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| oriage gōtenjō 折上格天井 | ✓ | A coved and coffered ceiling. The coved part has curved struts. It surrounds the coffered ceiling and at the same time… |
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| oriage kogumi gōtenjō 折上小組格天井 | ✓ | A coved, coffered and finely latticed ceiling. When the height of a ceiling of the same type is increased by curved struts… |
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| oriage tenjō 折上天井 | ✓ | A coved ceiling. A ceiling raised by diagonally placed straight timbers *shirin… |
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| oriokigumi 折置組 | ✓ | Also orioki 折置. Method of assembly in a building's structural frame. A method of fixing a transverse beam *… |
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| ōya-ishi 大谷石 | Neocene quartz. A type of soft volcanic tuff that is rough, porous and easily worked. It is a light, bluish greenish brown… |
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| ōyuka 大床 | 1 The board-floor veranda at the top of the steps of a shrine building. The veranda at the bottom of the… |
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