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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
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
yatoi-ari 雇蟻

A right-angled joint with a dovetail spline tenon *hozo ほぞ that resembles a…

Architecture, Joints
yatoihozo 雇ほぞ

Also called sashiki 差木, yatoiki 雇木, or machihozo 待ほぞ.

1 A spline tenon. A…

Architecture, Joints
yonmaihozo 四枚ほぞ ✓ The four tenons cut into the crosscut of a beam. Quadruple tenons. The same principle is used in making double tenons *… Architecture, Joints
yose-ari hikidokko 寄蟻引独鈷

A right angle joint used to attach a horizontal member to a pillar. It combines a type of dovetail joint *…

Architecture, Joints
yose-ari 寄蟻

Also called okuri-ari 送蟻. A right angle joint *shiguchi 仕口 used to…

Architecture, Joints
yotsutome 四留

Also pronounced yotsudome. An angled joint *shiguchi 仕口, composed of…

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