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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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| 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… |
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| raigō-kabe 来迎壁 | ✓ | Also called raigō-heki. A clay or wooden wall erected behind a Buddhist altar *… |
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| raimon kōshi 雷文格子 | Lattice arranged in a fret pattern, used especially on railings of balconies. |
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| ranma 欄間 | ✓ | A transom. A rectangular opening, longer in the horizontal direction, constructed between the lintels *… |
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| ranseki 乱石 | ✓ | Also called no-ishizumi 野石積. Stones with an irregular shape. Those that are somewhat square are called nozura-… |
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| 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… |
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| ranzumi 乱積 | Also called *ransekizumi 乱石積, waraizumi 笑い積. Randomly piled natural stones *… |
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| renjimado 連子窓 | Also written 櫺子窓. Lit. "a row lath window." |
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| rensō 連窓 | Multiple windows. Two or more windows connected horizontally, or windows connected within one frame window with vertical… |
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| rensōmado 連双窓 | ✓ | Rensōmado means double windows. Two windows in line. Also called *meotomado… |
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| rō 廊 | A roofed corridor or passageway that connects one structure to another. It may also encompass an open area. There are… |
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| ro 炉 | ✓ | A sunken hearth. A square box installed into the floor of a tea ceremony room to make a charcoal fire. The standard size… |
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| rō-zukuri 楼造 | ✓ | A gate *rōmon 楼門, that appears to have two stories, but in reality is a high… |
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| roban 露盤 | ✓ | Commonly used abbreviation of shō roban 承露盤; also called masugata 枡形. Originally, an entire spire *… |
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| rodai 露台 | ✓ | 1 An unroofed platform, a dais, or a projected veranda or balcony. |
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| rōka 廊下 | 1 A hallwayor corridor within a building giving access to various rooms. |
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| roku 陸 | Also riku. A synonym for suihei 水平 meaning level. |
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| rokuchū-zukuri 六注造 | Also called rokkaku yane 六角屋根. A six-sided roof that covers an hexagonal building *… |
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| rōkyō 廊橋 | Also called hashirō 橋廊. A covered bridge, often with a resting place at the central point. Rōkyō can… |
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| ronji daruki 論治垂木 | Also called koshikake daruki 腰掛垂木, ranji daruki 鸞翅垂木, or tenbō daruki 天望垂木. |
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| ryōbiraki 両開 | Also *kannonbiraki tobira 観音開扉, double doors that open in one… |
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| ryōkusabi 両楔 | Wedges used on the right and left sides to strengthen and to secure a penetrating tie beam inserted into a pillar. |
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| ryōsage 両下 | A type of gable roof *kirizuma-zukuri 切妻造. Also called… |
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| ryūsha 竜車 | Lit. "dragon vehicle." The round or oval section of a pagoda finial *sōrin… |
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| ryūyōdana 柳葉棚 | ✓ | Lit. "willow leaf shelf." |
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