| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| biwa-ita 琵琶板 | Also written 枇杷板. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| bōzumi 棒隅 | Lit. straight corner. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| bugaku 舞楽 | ✓ | Imperial court dance that is accompanied by Imperial court music, gagaku 雅楽, as performed from the late 8th century… |
Art History, General Terms |
| 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 | |
| bukkyō setsuwa-zu 仏教説話図 | Narrative paintings, reliefs, or group sculptures of Buddhist stories (sutras or legends), which were made in great… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| 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 | |
| buzai 部材 | A generic term for the structural members which form the framework *honegumi… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ibara 茨 | Also called iga いが. Lit. cusp. 1 The point where two curved lines or forms meet. The… |
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| ichiboku kaidan 一木階段 | A ladder hewed from a single log during the Yayoi period. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ichimai biraki 一枚開 | A single window or door opening. Also, a single door or window. They may swing on hinges one way, both ways, or slide. |
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| ichimonji dana 一文字棚 | A term used in all parts of Japan in the Edo period, for a straight shelf *tana… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| igeta 井桁 | 1 A generic term for any group of structural members set in a grid pattern. 2 The… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ijō kōbai 居定勾配 | Also abbreviated to ijō 居定. The degree of pitch on the underside of a rafter support *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ikebana 生け花 | Lit. to keep flowers alive. Flower arrangements. Originated in Buddhist flower offerings kuge 供花 from the 6th… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| iki いき | The aesthetic ideal of the Edo merchant class during the late 18th and 19th centuries, combining material sensuality and… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| inago 稲子 | Slip fasteners. The wooden or bamboo pieces used on the reverse side of the overlapped boards of a board-and-batten ceiling… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| inokosasu 豕扠首 | ✓ | Also sasuzuka sasuzaoshiki 扠首束扠首竿式, *sasuzao 扠首竿, *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| inubashiri 犬走り | Also written 犬行. Lit. dog run. A narrow inset in wall ramparts, or in an embankment of earth forming a footpath or ledge.… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| inufusegi 犬防木 | Also pronounced inubōgi. 1 In temples and shrines, a lattice *… |
Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings | |
| inuyarai 犬矢来 | ✓ | Also called komafusegi 駒防ぎ. Concave screens about 60 cm high and of varying length made of closely-spaced bent… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| ippan zu 一般図 | General drawings which reflect all the contents of a building, its plan and design. Such drawings must depict the function… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ireko-ita 入子板 | ✓ | Also called *wata-ita 綿板. Thin panels of wood inserted between the rails … |
Architecture, General Terms |
| irigawabashira 入側柱 | Also called moyabashira 母屋柱 or 身舎柱. Pillars that are erected inside and parallel to the pillars positioned on the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| iriguchiwaku 入口枠 | A door frame made of a head lintel and vertical door jambs to which doors are attached with hinges. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| irihashibashira 入端柱 | Pillars *hashira 柱 at the inner boundary of a pent roof… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| irikawa 入側 | 1 A corridor or passageway between the main body of a residence and the veranda. It is also found in temple… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| irikawageta 入側桁 | Purlins, *keta 桁, placed along the tops of pillars surrounding the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| irimoya hafu 入母屋破風 | The bargeboards on the gable end of a hip-and-gable roof *irimoya yane… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| irimoya yane 母屋屋根 | A hip-and-gable roof. In Japanese architecture, the gable part is usually over the core area of the building, *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| irimoya-zukuri 入母屋造 | ✓ | A hip-and-gable roof construction, or a building with this roof construction. A gable type roof has a ridge and gable… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| irisumi 入隅 | ✓ | The internal angle made by the junction of two planes, such as walls, a wall and ceiling, or the inside angle made by the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| ishibadate 石場建 | Also kanokodate 鹿の子建 and ishitsuki 石付. A technique used at a folk dwelling to attach a pillar to a… |
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| ishiguchi 石口 | The point at which a base stone and a pillar are joined. The upper surface of a plinth stone on which another stone may be… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ishiwari 石割 | 1 The cutting and arrangement of stones. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ita 板 | Also written 鈑 or 版. Originally a relatively thin flat timber, stone, or sheet of metal. In the medieval period (1185-1568… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ita ishi 板石 | A thin, flat stone resembling a board. Also called a plate stone. The stone can be divided into three types depending on the… |
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| ita ranma 板欄間 | ✓ | Traditional transoms that are made of wood and have sections filled with a single board, or one or two parts are filled with… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| ita tenjō 板天井 | Also called itabari tenjō 板張天井 or *hariita tenjō 張板天井… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| itabei 板塀 | A wooden board or plank fence. Wooden fences made of planks and set directly into the ground are called hottate itabei… |
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| itabi 板碑 | ✓ | One type of pagoda or stupa, tōba 塔婆, in the form of a flat stone stele that became prevalent in the early 13th… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| itabuki 板葺 | ✓ | Wood shingles. Widely used in Japan for buildings of many kinds, ranging from palaces, elite residences, shrines, and… |
Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings |
| itabuki yane 板葺屋根 | A roof structure covered with boards or planks. Various names are used depending on the size of the boards. A large plan… |
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| itachigai 板違 | ✓ | Wooden panels with the grain set in alternating directions in a coffered ceiling *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| itadatami 板畳 | 1 The boards covered by tightly woven straw mats *tatami 畳,… |
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| itago 板子 | An Edo period term for wooden planks with a rectangular cross-section, between 5 cm and 30 cm thick. These planks were cut… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| itajiki 板敷 | A common type of wooden board flooring commonly used before thick straw matting *tatami… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| itakarado 板唐戸 | ✓ | Also read itagarado; also called itatobira 板扉. A 6th-7th century door made of a single, thick wooden plank… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| itame 板目 | ✓ | 1 A board cut in such a way that the grain lines are not parallel but instead are rather pointed or having irregular wavy… | Architecture, General Terms |
| itanoki 板軒 | ✓ | Thick boards used to cover exposed base rafters visible under eaves. Examples: Eihōji Kannondō 永保寺観音堂 (1315), Gifu… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| itaosae 板押 | Also read itaoshi. Battens used to prevent boards from moving. They are long, thin strips of wood set vertically… |
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| itomasa 糸柾 | A shortened form of itomasame 糸柾目. Straight, narrow grained wood. Two examples are Japanese arborvitae, nezuko… |
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| itomen 糸面 | A very narrow, chamfer about 3 mm wide, made by planing the corners of posts. The term has been used from the 17th century… |
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| itsutesaki 五手先 | A rare five-stepped bracket complex found at a temple on Sado 佐渡 Island, Niigata Prefecture. |
Architecture, General Terms |
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