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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
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.

1 A term…

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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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