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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
takahei 高塀

Also pronounced takahe. The gable walls of the central thatched portion kirizuma 切妻 of the roof *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
takahei-zukuri 高塀造り

Also pronounced takahe-zukuri. Lit. "high wall construction." Also called *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
takiguchi 焚口

The stokehole or stokeholes in the side of a cooking range *kamado 竃. The…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tana 棚

Shelves.

1  A type of shelf, sometimes with a rack, of which there are many ordinary household…

Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings
tarukidake 垂木竹

Bamboo rafters that span from the ridge *munagi 棟木 to the eave ends *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tateana jūkyo 竪穴住居

A pit dwelling. Generally a house type with a sunken, excavated floor. Houses of this type existed in Japan from the Jōmon…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tateba 立て場

1 Small settlements between the larger officially recognized inn towns *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
teppōdoko 鉄砲床

A term for an alcove or recess of the *oshi-ita 押板 type found in…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tokomise 床見世

Also written 床店. A small shop *mise 店, or stall, used for retail…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tomobeya 伴部屋

Also written 供部屋. A room used principally by the servants or attendants tomo 伴, 供 of high ranking visitors both as…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tōriniwa 通り庭 ✓

An earthfloored area *doma 土間 or *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tsuchido 土戸

1 In the Heian and Kamakura periods, a gate in a pise mud wall *tsuiji…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Storehouses
tsuji 辻

1 A crossroads or intersection of two roads. See *zushi…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tsukabumi 束踏

1 An alternative term for the base ridge *jimune 地棟. The base…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tsunagibari 繋梁

Lit. "connecting beam."

1 Also *geyabari 下屋梁. A short…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tsuribeya 吊り部屋

A small upper floor or mezzanine loft space *chūnikai 中二階, usually only about…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tsushi nikai 厨子二階 ✓

Also read zushi nikai. A loft in the roof space of a single-story vernacular house *…

Architecture, 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