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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
battari shōgi ばったり床几

Alternative term for a shop-front shutter and folding table *agemise …

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
buntōgata 分棟型 ✓

Lit. divided-ridge style. Often abbreviated to buntō 分棟 and sometimes referred to as betsumune-zukuri…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
butsudan 仏壇 ✓

An altar or tabernacle in the form of a podium, table, recess, or cabinet used in the sanctuaries of temples and in private…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
butsudan-no-ma 仏壇の間 ✓

A room in traditional vernacular houses *minka 民家, in parts of Hyōgo Prefecture…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
butsuma 仏間

A room for Buddhist images (either two- or three-dimensional images) or, especially in a residence, an altar or tabernacle…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures, Folk Dwellings
chanoma 茶の間

Lit. tearoom. A Edo period communal living room usually containing a hearth *irori…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
chigi 千木

Also written 鎮木, 知木, 知疑. Also higi 氷木.

1 Forked finials, which are found on most Shinto…

Architecture, Shrines, Folk Dwellings
chōdai 帳台

1 A curtained sleeping platform used by those of highest rank in shinden style *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
chōdaigamae 帳台構え

1 A built-in ornamental doorway found in the raised area *jōdan…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
chōna-zukuri 釿造り

A method of construction that employed long substantial beams called *chōnabari…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
chōnabari 釿梁 ✓

Transverse roof beams that span the distance from the center posts of a vernacular house with a thatched roof to the *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
chūmon-zukuri 中門造り

A type of vernacular house *minka 民家, characterized by one or more wings or…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
chūnikai 中二階 ✓

A term for a loft or attic occupying the roof space of a vernacular house *minka…

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