| 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 | ✓ | 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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