| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| bai 唄 | ✓ | A circular nail head cover *kugikakushi 釘隠, placed over a nail to attach a… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| baijō 梅杖 | Lit. plum post. A wooden post used to support the heavy but structurally weak branches of old plum trees. |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| baikenmon 梅軒門 | Lit. plum eaves gate. Also written 梅見門. A type of gate used in tea gardens *roji… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| baku 瀑 | A cascade. A type of garden waterfall in which the water falls at a 90 degree angle. One common type of baku is the… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| bakuhana 獏鼻 | ✓ | Lit. tapir nose. Also called bakugashira 獏頭. A type of nosing *kibana… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| bakuryō 曝涼 | Lit. airing. Also called mushiboshi 虫干. The practice of inspecting and airing valuables that have been in storage… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ban 盤 | A heavy wooden plank placed above the ceiling of the first story of a two-storied pagoda *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| banbei 蕃塀 | ✓ | Also pronounced hanbei. A single, free-standing, short timber fence placed as a guard in front of the north, east,… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| banchi ばん池 | Also called hanchi 畔池 written with the character ばん池, to indicate a 'halved pond.' Lit. levee pond. A type of… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| banjiro 番城 | Short for zaiban shijō 在番支城. A branch castle *shijō 支城, with… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| banshin 番神 | Also kyakushin 客神, ishin 夷神. Also written 蛮神 banshin. Gods that were thought to have originated… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| banzuke 番付 | A system used to label each structural members of a building before construction, while being dismantled for repair, or… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| battari shōgi ばったり床几 | Alternative term for a shop-front shutter and folding table *agemise … |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| bentendō 弁天堂 | Also called benzaitendō 弁才天堂. A small structure that houses an image of Benten 弁天 (Sk: Sarasvati, *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| betsugū 別宮 | Also bessha 別社, edamiya 枝宮, or edayashiro 枝社. |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| betsuin 別院 | Also called *gobō 御坊. In the Nagoya area, it is called kakesho… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| biseki 尾石 | Lit. tail stone. A stone in a rock garden that represents the tail of a tortoise *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| bishamon kikkō 毘沙門亀甲 | A decorative pattern composed of three joined hexagonal shapes. It is named after the guardian deity *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| bishamondō 毘沙門堂 | ✓ | A temple hall dedicated to *Bishamonten 毘沙門天, one of the four gods, or *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| biwa-ita 琵琶板 | Also written 枇杷板. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| bokashi 暈 | 1 A gradation of colors or tones from dark to light or vice versa. One example is colorization of the… |
Architecture, Decorations, Art History, Painting | |
| bokuseki 墨跡 | Black ink brush writing by Zen 禅 priests, as well as by laymen who practiced Zen meditations and wrote Buddhist sermons, or… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| bokusekimado 墨蹟窓 | A window on the side wall of an alcove *tokonoma 床の間, used to provide light… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| bonjimon 梵字文 | ✓ | Lit. Sanskrit motif. A Sanskrit character, bonji 梵字, that decorates pendants *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| bōrōgata tenshu 望楼型天守 | ✓ | A lookout tower set atop the roof of a residence *kyokan 居館, usually a… |
Architecture, Castles |
| botan karakusa 牡丹唐草 | 1 Abbreviation of botan karakusagawara 牡丹唐草瓦. A roof tile, often an eaves-end tile, whose pendant… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Painting, Art History | |
| bōzumi 棒隅 | Lit. straight corner. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| budō karakusamon 葡萄唐草文 | ✓ | Also abbreviated to *budō karakusa 葡萄唐草. A grape-patterned arabesque used… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| bugakuryū teien 武学流庭園 | Lit. garden of the Bugaku lineage. A style of Japanese garden developed in the middle of the Edo period by Ōishi Bugaku 大石武学… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| buke-zukuri 武家造 | A style of residential architecture in use among the bushi 武士 or warrior class. As defined by the early 20th-… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| bukku 仏供 | Also jukubukku 熟仏供, butsuhan 仏飯, or butsushō 仏餉. Cooked rice made as an offering to the Buddha,… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| bunmawashi 規 | An old term for a compass used to draw circles. They were imported from Portugal. The beam compass has a large radius,… | Architecture, Tools | |
| buntōgata 分棟型 | ✓ | Lit. divided-ridge style. Often abbreviated to buntō 分棟 and sometimes referred to as betsumune-zukuri… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| burō 廡廊 | A corridor that enclosed an open area or surrounded a space in which buildings were erected. A term from the 7th-9th century… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| bussharitō 仏舎利塔 | Also called *sharitō 舎利塔. A reliquary in a stupa or pagoda. These could be… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| busshōya 仏餉屋 | ✓ | Also called gokusho 御供所. A Buddhist building used to prepare ritual food offerings called busshō 仏餉, *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| busshudana 仏守棚 | Lit. Buddha protecting shelf. A type of decorative shelf with sliding-door cabinets on the bottom and an ogee-shaped… | Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| butaigamachi 舞台框 | Lit. stage framework. A framing member that runs the entire width of the upper part of a *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| butaikabe 舞台壁 | Lit. proscenium wall. The wall at the front part of a *kabuki 歌舞伎 stage. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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 |
| butsuden 仏殿 | ✓ | Also *daiyū hōden 大雄宝殿. The main hall of a Zen temple. Butsuden… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| butsudō 仏堂 | Also called *butsuden 仏殿; bukkaku 仏閣, *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| 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 | |
| butsumon 仏門 | Architecture, Gates | ||
| buzai 部材 | A generic term for the structural members which form the framework *honegumi… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| byōbudana 屏風棚 | A type of decorative double hanging shelf *tsuridana 釣棚, placed in an alcove… |
Architecture, Accessories | |
| byōbuori 屏風折 | Also termed *orihei 折塀 (folding wall). A castle wall that zig-zags… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| byōmon 廟門 | ✓ | Also called reibyōmon 霊廟門. An entrance gate to a mausoleum. It can be an elaborate gate in two-storied or simulated… |
Architecture, Gates |
| byōtō 廟塔 | Lit. mausoleum pagoda. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hachimae-no-ishigumi 鉢前の石組 | A washstand placed near a veranda or in the corner of an open veranda, shoin zashiki 書院座敷, or in the chief priest's… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hachimaki 鉢巻 | ✓ | The name for a thickly plastered area projecting from the wall below the eaves of a building. Used on storehouses, *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hachimaki doi 鉢巻土居 | A "headband" earthen embankment. An earthen embankment with a stone wall constructed on the upper portion. Also … |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hachiman torii 八幡鳥居 | ✓ | A pillar of the shinmei type, *shinmei torii 神明鳥居, with no… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| hachiman-zukuri 八幡造 | A style of shrine architecture characterized by a structure which from the side-view gives the impression of two separate… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| hachiro 八炉 | ✓ | The eight basic ways of positioning a hearth, *ro 炉, in a tea ceremony room, *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| hachiyō 八葉 | Lit. eight leaves. Also hachiyō kanagu 八葉金具. A metal decoration carved into the shape of eight petals with a central… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| hachiyō fukuben rengemon 八葉複弁蓮華文 | A decorative stylized lotus-flower pattern, *rengemon 蓮華文, found on eaves… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| hada noshigawara 肌熨斗瓦 | 1 The second layer of tiles that is curved and set at a same angle to the first layer of tiles, … |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| hadakaniwa 裸庭 | Lit. naked or bare yard. A term for the earth-floored area, *doma 土間, in… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| haegi 延木 | Also haigi. An archaic term for *nodaruki, 野垂木 (a hidden rafter). A… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hafu kazari kanagu 破風飾金具 | Also hafu kanagu 破風金具. Decorative metal fittings, *kazari kanagu… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| hafu kojiri 破風木尻 | Also written 破風鐺, hafujiri 破風尻, or hafubana 破風鼻. The lower end of a bargeboard on a hip-and-gable… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hafu ogami 破風拝 | ✓ | Also called hafugashira, 破風頭, or hafu-no-ogami, 破風の拝. The joint between two bargeboards, hafu-ita… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hafu 破風 | Also written 搏風. Also called hafu-ita 破風板. A bargeboard. Straight or curved boards laid flat against the ridge ends… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hafugoshi 破風腰 | The center of a bargeboard, *hafu 破風, which is determined by its length. It… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hagarazai 端柄材 | Also written 羽柄材. Also called hagaramono, 端柄物, 羽柄物; or yamabikizai 山挽材. A general term for trimmed boards… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hagi 矧 | ✓ | A suffix used to describe edge joints of various types.
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Architecture, Joints |
| haichi-zu 配置図 | A layout drawing on a plot plan showing topography in minute detail and the position of buildings within the boundaries of a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| haiden 拝殿 | ✓ | A worship hall at a Shinto shrine, usually placed on the same axis as the offering hall, *… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| hainobe 配延 | Also hainobi 配延び or nobi 延び. A carpenters' standard term for extensions created by slopes. Example: Where the horizontal… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| haiseki 拝石 | Lit. worship stone. A type of trump stone *yaku-ishi 役石 from which one can… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| haiseki 配石 | Lit. stone arrangement. To arrange stones in consideration of their shape, color, and character. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| haitsuke daruki 配付垂木 | ✓ | Also sashidaruki 挿垂木 or 指垂木. To join rafters *taruki 垂木 which is… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hajikidake 弾竹 | Also bakuchiku-bashira 爆竹柱. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hakamagoshi 袴腰 | ✓ | 1 A trapezoidal form created on top of the posts that frame the host's entrance *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses, Structures, Buildings |
| hakamazuri-ishi 袴ずり石 | Lit. hakama 袴 brushing stone. A name for the front stone in a stone grouping arranged around a low basin *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hakarihijiki 秤肘木 | ✓ | A single bracket arm *hijiki 肘木, which is set into a large bearing block *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hakkaku butsuden 八角仏殿 | An octagonal hall in a Buddhist temple. One or more Buddhist deities are enshrined within. The record Shizaichō… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hakkaku enden 八角円殿 | An octagonal hall. Temple records owned by Hōryūji 法隆寺 and Gangōji 元興寺 mention the existence of a hakkaku enden as… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hakkaku endō 八角円堂 | Lit. eight-sided circular. An octagonal circular hall *hakkakudō 八角堂,… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hakkakudō 八角堂 | ✓ | Also called *hakkaku endō 八角円堂. An octagonal hall. There are six… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hakkakuotoshi-no-kado 八角落の角 | ✓ | Also yatsunaka-no-korobi 八中の転. The method used to determine the incline of the main posts of a *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hakkakutō 八角塔 | ✓ | An octagonal pagoda of which there is only one in Japan. Although a plan to erect an octagonal pagoda existed at Saidaiji… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hakkyakumon 八脚門 | ✓ | Also read yatsuashimon. Also called sangenikkomon 三間一戸門 or sangen sankomon 三間三戸門 depending upon… |
Architecture, Gates |
| hakogata jōgi 箱型定規 | Box-shaped measuring tool used when inking and marking off a pillar in order to fit the horizontal beams surrounding a… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| hakokaidan 箱階段 | ✓ | Also referred to as hakodan 箱段 and hakohashigo 箱梯子. A combined stairway and storage chest, common in town… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| hakokanagu 箱金具 | Also hakokanamono 箱金物, *makikanagu 巻金具, makikanamono 巻金物. U-strap, strap, stirrup.… | Architecture, Decorations | |
| hakomune 箱棟 | A prominent box-like ridge framed in timber astride the apex of a roof. In section it resembles a miniature building with a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hakozaki torii 筥崎鳥居 | Also called Hakozaki Hachimangū 筥崎八幡宮, Hakozaki no Miya 筥崎宮 or Hizen torii 肥前鳥居. A stone pillar type of gate characterized… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| Hamagurimon 蛤門 | ✓ | Lit. clam gate. One of the four gates on the westside of the outer enclosure of Kyoto Gosho 京都御所. Altogether there were nine… |
Architecture, Gates |
| hamayuka 浜床 | Also called *chōdai 帳台 in the Heian period.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| hame-ishi 羽目石 | Also written 嵌石. A stone panel. A component of the formal style podium *danjōzumi… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hame-ita 羽目板 | Also written 嵌板. A wooden panel or board used as wall covering. It may be horizontally or vertically set. The boards may… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hamontai 波文帯 | Also called a zigzag motif *inazumamon 稲妻文 or a saw tooth pattern *… | Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| han-nageshi 半長押 | ✓ | Lit. half non-penetrating horizontal beam. A non-penetrating beam which is 3/5 the diameter of a building 's main pillar… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| han-noshigawara 半熨斗瓦 | Rectangular ridge tiles with half the width of an ordinary ridge tile *noshigawara… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| hana-akarimado 花明窓 | Also kameimado, *oribemado 織部窓, *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hana 鼻 | ✓ | Lit. nose. Also called hanasaki 鼻先. The end or tip of a structural member such as a beam, rafter end, ridge end,… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hanagarami 鼻絡 | A relatively small tie beam placed slightly inside and under the eave ends on a board roof. It not only ties the boards… | Architecture, General Terms |
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