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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
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
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
arihozo 蟻ほぞ ✓

Lit. dovetail tenon. Also *arikake 蟻掛. A tenon shaped like a dove's tail with…

Architecture, Joints
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
samisentsugi 三味線継 ✓ A wooden splicing joint used for a beam. The length of the joint is 3x the height of the beam and the tenon *… Architecture, Joints
saobiki dokko 竿引独鈷 ✓

A long, lapped, rod-type tenon cut in the end of a rainbow beam *kōryō 虹梁, or…

Architecture, Joints
saobuchi 竿縁

A batten used to make a board and batten ceiling *saobuchi tenjō 竿縁天井.…

Architecture, Joints
saoshachitsugi 竿車知継 ✓

Also saotsugi 竿継. Joint with long, rather slender tenons called saohozo 竿ほぞ (rod or pole tenons) and…

Architecture, Joints
sashikomihozo 差込ほぞ

A generic term meaning to insert, usually a tenon *hozo ほぞ into a mortise *…

Architecture, Joints
shachi 車知 ✓

An abbreviation of shachisen 車知栓. A draw pin, key or cotter made of hard wood, usually zelkova or oak. The pin is…

Architecture, Joints
shakushi hozo 杓子ほぞ ✓

Lit. "dipper or ladle tenon." A flat tenon *hozo ほぞ that is attached to the end…

Architecture, Joints
shiguchi 仕口

An angled joint. There are two general types of shiguchi.

1 watashigake shiguchi…

Architecture, Joints
shihō ari 四方蟻 ✓

A dovetail splicing joint *aritsugi 蟻継, made in such way that the dovetails…

Architecture, Joints
shikimen 敷面 ✓

Also called *koshikake 腰掛.
A bench joint. A flat surface in…

Architecture, Joints
shintsugi 真継 ✓

The junction of two lengths of a purlin that are set into the top of a post. The line of the joint is centered to coincide…

Architecture, Joints
shippasami tsugi 尻挟継 ✓

Also called shiribasami tsugi 尻挟継 or obasami tsugi 尾鋏継. A blind, stubbed, housed, rabbeted, oblique, scarf…

Architecture, Joints
shitaki 下木 ✓

Also pronounced shitagi or kaboku. The lower of two or more joined timbers. Shitaki is the…

Architecture, Joints
sogi 殺

A basic bevelled scarf. A timber with a slanted cut, usually at an approximately 30 degree angle. To form a joint, a scarf…

Architecture, Joints
sogitsugi 殺継 ✓

Also called suberihatsugi 滑刃継; hauchitsugi 羽打継. A scarf joint. A simple butt joint made stronger by…

Architecture, Joints
suitsuki arizan 吸付蟻桟 ✓

Also arizan 蟻桟, suitsukizan 吸付桟 or suitsukiari 吸付蟻. A long, narrow dovetail tenon *…

Architecture, Joints

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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