| 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 | |
| shakemachi 社家町 | A township composed of *shake 社家, families who held posts (usually hereditary) as… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| shikibari 敷梁 | Also *ushibari 牛梁, nakahikibari 中引梁, ushihikibari 牛引梁, … |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| shimodaidokoro 下台所 | Lit. "lower kitchen." |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| shimomise 下店 | 1 A room in the front *shimote 下手 corner of the earth-floored… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| shishimado 獅子窓 | 1 A large window in the front wall frame of a principal living room *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| shukubamachi 宿場町 | A type of settlement or township which developed along major trunk roads during the medieval and early modern periods,… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| shukuya 宿屋 | A vernacular house *minka 民家, in the style known as *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| shukuya-zukuri 宿屋造 | 1 A term for a style of vernacular residence *minka 民家, with… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| sodeudatsu 袖卯立 | ✓ | Lit. "sleeve udatsu." Extensions of the gable parapet walls *udatsu 卯立… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| sudomon 簀戸門 | Lit. "latticed door gate." A type of garden gate which features lattice, or basket-work of split bamboo. Varieties include… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| suzumeodori 雀踊 | ✓ | Lit. "sparrow dance." A widely-used term for a range of elements used to decorate the ridge of the roof in vernacular houses… |
Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings |
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