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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
agesudo 揚簀戸

Lit. raised lattice door. A type of small middle gate or wicket *kido 木戸, used to…

Architecture, Tea Houses
agetekiri 上げ手切

A firebox that is cut into the upper part of the mat next to the host's mat *temae…

Architecture, Tea Houses
aidaruki 間垂木 ✓

A treatment of the underside of a roof, with thin bamboo placed between rafters under the roof *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
ajiro 網代 ✓

A woven or plaited wickerwork mat made of strips of bamboo sheathing, thin strips of cryptomeria, straight-grained…

Architecture, Tea Houses
amigasa 編笠 ✓

One type of Korean style tea bowl *chawan 茶碗, with white brush strokes on the…

Architecture, Tea Houses
amigasamon 編笠門

Also written 網笠門. A wattle-hood gate. A simple gate used as a middle gate in a garden *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
arare koboshi 霰零し

Lit. scattered hail stones. A method of paving *tama-ishijiki 玉石敷, in…

Architecture, Tea Houses
arare kuzushi 霰崩 ✓

Simplified hail stone style of round-stone paving *tama-ishijiki…

Architecture, Tea Houses
ararebai 霰灰 ✓

A type of coarse ash used in a tea ceremony brazier. Usually it is covered with makibai 蒔灰, a finer ash with a…

Architecture, Tea Houses
arigoshi 蟻腰

The name of one section of a tea scoop. It is the deep indentation at the back part of a bamboo tea scoop *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
asagaokugi 朝顔釘 ✓

Lit. morning glory nail. A two-pronged nail bent into a right angle for the purpose of hanging a flower vase. The nail…

Architecture, Tea Houses
yaku-ishi 役石 ✓

Also kaname-ishi 要石. Rocks and stones which in a tea garden *roji 露地…

Architecture, Tea Houses
yamatobuki 大和葺 ✓

1 A type of board roofing made by first spacing boards of equal width at predetermined intervals and then…

Architecture, General Terms, Tea Houses
yamatokaki 大和掻

A type of bamboo lattice entwined with wisteria vine set in a window opening *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
yanagikugi 柳釘

Also yanagikakekugi 柳掛け釘. A nail hammered into a partially plastered post yanagibashira 柳柱 (see *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
yōji-bashira 楊子柱

Also called nuritate bashira 塗立柱, nuridashi bashira 塗出柱 or yanagi bashira 柳柱. A corner pillar in…

Architecture, Tea Houses
yojōhan 四畳半 ✓

A four and a half 4 1/2 mat tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室, the most common…

Architecture, Tea Houses
yojōhangiri 四畳半切

Lit. "four mats and a half cut." A firebox or hearth used in a 4 1/2 mat or larger tea ceremony room *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
yokogi 横木

Also hikigi 引木 Lit. "horizontal timber." Although the term yokogi can refer to any horizontal timber, it…

Architecture, Tea Houses
yoritsuki 寄付

Also written 寄附.

1 Room immediately inside an entrance to the raised floor zone; *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses
yose-ishijiki 寄石敷

Stone paving in which various sizes of cut and natural stones are arranged in unique patterns. Different sizes of regular…

Architecture, Tea Houses
yugamibashira 歪柱

Also called *magaribashira 曲柱. Lit. "crooked or bent post." Posts that…

Architecture, Tea Houses
yuoke-ishi 湯桶石

Also called yutōseki, katakuchi-ishi 片口石, yuage-ishi 湯揚げ石, and oke-ishi 桶石. Lit. "warm…

Architecture, Tea Houses

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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