| 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 | |
| uchigenkan 内玄関 | A subordinate entry in houses possessing a formal guest entry *genkan 玄関, and… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| udatsu 卯立 | ✓ | Also written 卯建, 宇立, うだつ; all read udachi, odatsu, or odachi. |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| udatsubashira うだつ柱 | 1 A wide post at the interface between the earth-floored space *doma… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| udatsuya うだつ屋 | 1 A rudimentary thatched dwelling hut or ancillary structure with a gable roof *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| umaya 馬屋 | ✓ | A stable. Also written 厩. Also maya 馬屋 or 厩, keiya けいや, and kyūsha 厩舎. Applied to both a… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings |
| ushibari 牛梁 | 1 A particularly large beam that runs in a longitudinal direction, ketayuki hōkō 桁行方向 (see *… |
Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings | |
| ushiroya chūmon 後屋中門 | A rear wing which extends from the main structure of a folk dwelling *minka… |
Architecture, Gates, Folk Dwellings | |
| usuniwa 臼庭 | ✓ | 1 An alternative term for all or part of the earth-floored area, *doma… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| usuya 臼屋 | 1 A small-scale freestanding structure containing a mortar or hand mill, usu 臼, for pounding rice… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
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