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aboshigaki 網干垣		Lit. hanging net fence. A generic name for a bamboo fence whose surface resembles the diagonal weave of a fishing net. Often…	Architecture, Gardens
abumigawara 鐙瓦		Lit. stirrup tile. An ancient name for *nokimarugawara 軒丸瓦. Also called…	Architecture, Roofing Tiles
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
agesage shōji 上下障子	✓	Also called *suriage shōji 摺上障子. A sliding door frame covered with…	Architecture, General Terms
agesudo 揚簀戸		Lit. raised lattice door. A type of small middle gate or wicket *kido 木戸, used to…	Architecture, Tea Houses
agetekiri 上げ手切		A firebox that is cut into the upper part of the mat next to the host's mat *temae…	Architecture, Tea Houses
agetsuchimon 上土門	✓	Also written 揚土門; also called azuchimon 安土門. A gate with a mud roof. To support the roof the gate has two pillars…	Architecture, Gates
ageya 揚屋		Also called ageya jaya 揚屋茶屋. A type of town house *machiya 町家, found…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
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
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
aidaruki 間垂木	✓	A treatment of the underside of a roof, with thin bamboo placed between rafters under the roof *…	Architecture, Tea Houses
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
aikugi 合釘	✓	Also kurekugi 呉釘, kirikugi 切釘. A straight nail with both ends pointed. It is made of wood, bamboo, iron,…	Architecture, General Terms
aioi 相生		Lit. growing together. The technique of planting two trees so that they grow together. Variations include: the same kind of…	Architecture, Gardens
aioibashi 相生橋		Lit. twin bridges. Side-by-side bridges constructed over a garden stream. Usually one bridge is larger than the other in…	Architecture, Gardens
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…	Architecture, General Terms
aiyokoya-no-sama 合横矢の狭間		Also aiyokoya 合横矢. Lit. loophole for opposing lateral arrows. A loophole constructed in a castle wall or rampart to…	Architecture, Castles
Aizendō 愛染堂		An octagonal hall *hakkaku endō 八角円堂, at Sanshōji 三聖寺 in…	Architecture, Buildings, Structures
ajiro 網代	✓	A woven or plaited wickerwork mat made of strips of bamboo sheathing, thin strips of cryptomeria, straight-grained…	Architecture, Tea Houses
akacha-iro 赤茶色		Lit. red brown color. The reddish brown or russet color on the ancient smooth, lipless tiles *…	Architecture, Decorations
akaiya 閼伽井屋	✓	Also called wakasaiya 若狭井屋. A small structure that enclosed two wells from which water was drawn to serve the…	Architecture, Buildings, Structures
akari shōji 明障子	✓	One type of *shōji 障子. A translucent screen or sliding door made by pasting…	Architecture, General Terms
akazumon 不開門		Also called akazu-no-mon 不開門 or ikanmon 偉鑒門. Lit. closed gate. Legend has it that after Emperor Kazan 花山 (…	Architecture, Gates
aki 明		Also written 空; kūgeki 空隙, ma 間. Lit. empty, gap, space. The space between two structural parts. For…	Architecture, General Terms
akijiro 明城		Also written 空城. An empty castle or fortress from which the lord and/or his defensive garrison have withdrawn, either…	Architecture, Castles
akkon 圧痕		Evidence left on load bearing members by beams *hari 梁, *…	Architecture, General Terms
ama 天		1　A rack with an open lattice frame of timber or bamboo, suspended from the main crossbeams *…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
amado 雨戸		1　Wooden shutters constructed at the various openings of a building. They slide out from a special storage…	Architecture, General Terms
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…	Architecture, General Terms
amagumi 疎組	✓	Also read mabaragumi; also written 阿麻組 amagumi. A bracket complex *…	Architecture, General Terms
amajimai 雨仕舞		Weather stripping, flashing, a rain guard, or any device used to prevent leaks or deflect rainwater. A hōju roban…	Architecture, General Terms
amakatsura-ishi 雨葛石		A curbstone that runs horizontally along the top edge of a podium *danjōzumi…	Architecture, General Terms
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,…	Architecture, General Terms
amashōji 雨障子		Also called aburashōji 油障子. A type of translucent paper-covered window found most often in tea ceremony houses *…	Architecture, General Terms
amidadō 阿弥陀堂		A hall in a Buddhist temple dedicated to *Amida 阿弥陀 (Sk: Amitabha), the Buddha…	Architecture, Buildings, Structures
amigaki 網垣		Lit. wattle fence. A common type of low fence with a framework of whole and split bamboo into which thin boards or reeds are…	Architecture, Gardens
amigasa 編笠	✓	One type of Korean style tea bowl *chawan 茶碗, with white brush strokes on the…	Architecture, Tea Houses
amigasamon 編笠門		Also written 網笠門. A wattle-hood gate. A simple gate used as a middle gate in a garden *…	Architecture, Tea Houses
ananai 麻生		An ancient word for *ashiba 足場 or ashishiro 足代, scaffolding made of…	Architecture, General Terms
anazukikanna 穴突鉋		A grooving plane. A plane used in carpentry to make a groove. For a groove less than 15 mm wide a small anazukikanna…	Architecture, Tools
ao-ishi 青石		Lit. blue stone. A generic name for a blue green stone of chlorite schist much used in gardens from the Muromachi period…	Architecture, Gardens
aori hafu 障泥破風		Lit. curved bargeboard. An archaic term for *chidori haru 千鳥破風, a…	Architecture, General Terms
aori-ita 障泥板	✓	Also read afuri-ita; irakaōi 甍覆. 1　A thick board attached to the edge of a veranda…	Architecture, General Terms
aoshibagaki 青柴垣		Lit. fresh brushwood fence. A simple type of low fence made out of fresh brushwood. Popular in ancient times, when it was…	Architecture, Gardens
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 *…	Architecture, General Terms
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…	Architecture, General Terms
arakabe 荒壁		The first layer of mud plaster applied to the lath *komai 小舞, that…	Architecture, General Terms
arare koboshi 霰零し		Lit. scattered hail stones. A method of paving *tama-ishijiki 玉石敷, in…	Architecture, Tea Houses
arare kuzushi 霰崩	✓	Simplified hail stone style of round-stone paving *tama-ishijiki…	Architecture, Tea Houses
ararebai 霰灰	✓	A type of coarse ash used in a tea ceremony brazier. Usually it is covered with makibai 蒔灰, a finer ash with a…	Architecture, Tea Houses
arashikō ganna 荒仕工鉋		A type of smoothing plane. The arashikō ganna is the first smoothing plane used on a piece of timber, planking…	Architecture, Tools
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
arigoshi 蟻腰		The name of one section of a tea scoop. It is the deep indentation at the back part of a bamboo tea scoop *…	Architecture, Tea Houses
arihozo 蟻ほぞ	✓	Lit. dovetail tenon. Also *arikake 蟻掛. A tenon shaped like a dove's tail with…	Architecture, Joints
arikabe 蟻壁		1　A narrow horizontal strip of wall between a long, light, binding beam *…	Architecture, General Terms
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
asagaokugi 朝顔釘	✓	Lit. morning glory nail. A two-pronged nail bent into a right angle for the purpose of hanging a flower vase. The nail…	Architecture, Tea Houses
ashi 足		Lit. leg or foot. Also 脚, read ashi or kyaku. 1　The parts that support the main…	Architecture, General Terms
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
ashiagekura 足揚倉		Also simply called *ashiage 足揚. A type of thatched storehouse set upon a…	Architecture, General Terms
ashiba 足場		Scaffold or scaffolding. A temporary, elevated structure used to support workmen, tools, etc. when erecting a building.…	Architecture, General Terms
ashigatame 足固		Also written 脚固, 足堅. Strong, horizontal ties which strengthen the posts beneath the floor of a timber building by…	Architecture, General Terms
ashimoto 足元		1　A general term for all structural members from the foundation *dodai…	Architecture, General Terms
ashimotogaki 足下垣		Lit. footstep fence. A generic term for a fence made alongside a path. It is similar to the *…	Architecture, Gardens
ashimotogawara 足元瓦		Also called *hire 鰭 or *hiregawara…	Architecture, Roofing Tiles
ashiwake 葦分け		Lit. split reed. A style of round-stone paving *tama-ishijiki 玉石敷 of the…	Architecture, General Terms
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
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…	Architecture, General Terms
ausaka 合坂		Also read aisaka. A type of warrior run *mushabashiri 武者走, where…	Architecture, Castles
awa-ishi 阿波石		Lit. sea-foam stone. A type of blue stone *ao-ishi 青石, produced in modern…	Architecture, Gardens
awasejōgi 合せ定規		A wooden measuring gauge *jōgi 定規, generally, 6-7 cm wide, 35-45 cm long, and 0.9…	Architecture, Tools
ayasuji 綾筋	✓	Also pronounced shimesuji 〆筋. The parallel chevron lines on the front or sides of a lion-mouth roof tile *…	Architecture, Decorations
azegi 校木	✓	Also pronounced azeki. Chamfered logs used to build walls for storehouses *…	Architecture, General Terms
azehikinoko 畔挽鋸		Lit. ridge cutting saw; from aze 畔 meaning a ridge between rice fields. An intermediate cutting saw. The …	Architecture, Tools
azekura 校倉	✓	A storage facility constructed of logs *azegi 校木, cut in appropriate lengths to…	Architecture, Storehouses
azuchi-umadashi 的山馬出		Also written 安土馬出. A type of defensive gateway barrier *umadashi 馬出,…	Architecture, Castles
raiden 礼殿		Also *haiden 拝殿. A worship hall for Shinto shrine visitors. The plan…	Architecture, Shrines
raidō 礼堂		Also called raihaidō 礼拝堂. A worship hall. When Buddhist temples were constructed during the 7th-8th century,…	Architecture, Buildings, Structures
raigō-bashira 来迎柱		Two or four-circular pillars right and left at each corner of the Buddhist altar to define the most sacred place in a temple…	Architecture, General Terms
raigō-kabe 来迎壁	✓	Also called raigō-heki. A clay or wooden wall erected behind a Buddhist altar *…	Architecture, General Terms
raimon kōshi 雷文格子		Lattice arranged in a fret pattern, used especially on railings of balconies.	Architecture, General Terms
raimon 雷文		Lit. "lightning pattern." Also read ikazuchimon いかずち文. A pattern of thick and thin zig-zag lines. A variation of *…	Architecture, Decorations
ranma 欄間	✓	A transom. A rectangular opening, longer in the horizontal direction, constructed between the lintels *…	Architecture, General Terms
ranseki 乱石	✓	Also called no-ishizumi 野石積. Stones with an irregular shape. Those that are somewhat square are called nozura-…	Architecture, General Terms
ransekizumi kidan 乱石積基壇		Also referred to as ranzumi kidan 乱積基壇, ranzō ransekizumi 乱層乱石積, kuzure ishizumi くずれ石積 or simply…	Architecture, General Terms
ransekizumi 乱石積	✓	Also *ranzumi 乱積. Piling up unhewn rocks or random masonry. The earliest and…	Architecture, Castles
rantō 卵塔		A stone pagoda with an egg-shaped main body placed directly on a base. It differs from the *…	Architecture, Buildings, Structures
rantsugi 乱継		Lit. "random joints." Various types of architectural joints that can be either dovetail *…	Architecture, Joints
ranzumi 乱積		Also called *ransekizumi 乱石積, waraizumi 笑い積. Randomly piled natural stones *…	Architecture, General Terms
reibyō 霊廟	✓	Also byōsho 廟所 or mitamaya 霊屋. A mausoleum in which the spirit of the dead is enshrined. It may be…	Architecture, Shrines
renben 蓮弁		Lit. "lotus petal." 1　A pendant *gatō 瓦当, found on semi-…	Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Art History, Sculpture
rengejigata tōrō 蓮華寺形灯籠		1　Rengeji type lantern. So named because a pair of these lanterns stand in front of the main building at…	Architecture, Lanterns