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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
ochimune-zukuri 落棟造

A design incorporating a projection from a major building with a roof ridge *mune…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
ōdo 大戸 ✓

1  Lit. "great door." Also called *ōdoguchi 大戸口. The door…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
ōdoguchi 大戸口

1 The main entrance to traditional vernacular houses *minka 民家…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
okamabashira 御竃柱

Also written 御釜柱. A pillar which is erected opposite the main central support pillar *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
okami 御上

1 A room that abutted the earth-floored area *doma 土間, at its…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
okiya 置屋

The houses of procurers keeping teams of yūjo 遊女, female entertainers and prostitutes in the authorised pleasure…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
okiyane 置屋根 ✓

The upper roof erected over storehouses, kura 倉, of the *dozō …

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
okuzashiki 奥座敷

1 A general term for the final or innermost room of a *shoin 書院…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
omote 表

Lit. "the front, surface, or exterior of something."
1 The front part of a house and the area around the…

Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
omoteya 表屋

A row of urban vernacular buildings *machiya 町家, directly facing the street at…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
omoteya-zukuri 表屋造 ✓

A layout of urban vernacular residences *machiya 町家, found during the Edo…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
oshi-ita 押板

1 A low four-legged table used in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods in upper class priestly and lay…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
oue 御上

1 The wife of a member of the upper classes and her living chambers. The term, used in the Muromachi period…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings

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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