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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… |
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| ban 盤 | A heavy wooden plank placed above the ceiling of the first story of a two-storied pagoda *… |
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| banzuke 番付 | A system used to label each structural members of a building before construction, while being dismantled for repair, or… |
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| biwa-ita 琵琶板 | Also written 枇杷板. |
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| bōzumi 棒隅 | Lit. straight corner. |
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| 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-… |
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| bukku 仏供 | Also jukubukku 熟仏供, butsuhan 仏飯, or butsushō 仏餉. Cooked rice made as an offering to the Buddha,… |
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| 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… |
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| butaigamachi 舞台框 | Lit. stage framework. A framing member that runs the entire width of the upper part of a *… |
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| butaikabe 舞台壁 | Lit. proscenium wall. The wall at the front part of a *kabuki 歌舞伎 stage. |
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| buzai 部材 | A generic term for the structural members which form the framework *honegumi… |
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| kabe shitaji 壁下地 | The framework for a mud-plastered wall. It consists of lath, bamboo crosspieces *… |
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| kabegaki 壁垣 | A generic term for shrine fences *tamagaki 玉垣. A fence built at shrines from… |
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| kabekomai 壁小舞 | ✓ | Also written 壁木舞. Thinly split lath set vertically and horizontally to form the framework *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kabemochi bashira 壁持柱 | Small diameter posts set between two pillars to support horizontal circular laths called kabemawatashi 壁間渡. The… |
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| kabewatadono 壁渡殿 | Lit. walled bridge corridor. An archaic term for a type of corridor that connects two buildings in a Heian period… |
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| kabuki 歌舞伎 | The most popular form of theatre among townspeople in Japan since the early Edo period. The form has its origins in the… |
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| kabuki 冠木 | Also 衡木. A horizontal timber, lintel, or crossbar. |
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| kadozuka 角束 | A short strut used at the corners of podii *kidan 基壇, or a dais *… |
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| kaerumata 蟇股 | ✓ | Frog-leg strut. A strut with legs spread like those of a frog. Kaerumata in the early Nara period developed from an… |
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| kagami ita 鏡板 | Boards or panels planed to a perfectly smooth surface and employed for ceilings or flooring. An example is a thin board… |
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| kagami no ma 鏡の間 | Lit. mirror room. A room separated by a curtain from the passageway hashigakari 橋掛り leading to a noh stage *… |
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| kagami tenjō 鏡天井 | ✓ | Also kagamiita tenjō 鏡板天井. Lit. mirror ceiling. A flat ceiling made of smoothly planed boards shiraki… |
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| kagemori 影盛 | ✓ | A plastered roof ornament on storehouses *dozō 土蔵. Located at the ends of… |
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| kagobori 篭彫 | ✓ | Purfled work. Lit. basket carving. A type of decorative wood carving used on beam projections *… |
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| kai 階 | Floor or storey, and also a counter for floors in a building. For example, nikai 二階 refers to the second floor or… |
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| kaidaka 階高 | The distance from the floor of one story to the floor of the next story. The topmost story is measurement from the floor to… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kaidan 階段 | One or more steps composed of a tread dan ita 段板 or fumi ita 踏板 and a riser *… |
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| kaigata 貝形 | ✓ | 1 A trapezoid. |
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| kaikō 開口 | Also kaikō ana 開口穴; kaikōbu 開口部. A generic term for an opening made in a wall for a door and window, in… |
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| kaimono 飼物 | Any kind of material used to fill a gap. If the basic material is wood, then wood filler is used. Gaps in stone walls are… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kaiorekugi 貝折釘 | ✓ | Also written 皆折釘. A large, square, angular nail used for wooden or bamboo fences. Its head is bent at right angles but has a… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kajū 荷重 | Also ni 荷. Lit. load. The downward pressure exerted by the roof structure, purlins, transverse beams, etc. on the… |
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| kakebana 懸鼻 | ✓ | Also read kakehana, and written 掛鼻. A decorative nosing *kibana 木鼻… |
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| kakikubi 欠首 | A neck-like part under a bulbous-topped post *giboshi 擬宝珠. It resembles the… |
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| kaku 閣 | ✓ | 1 A tower or a palace. For example, tenshukaku 天守閣 is the keep or dungeon of a castle. See *… |
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| kaku 角 | Also seikakuzai 正角材. A term used for any square building material. For example post is called kakubashira 角柱. | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kaku zukuri 角造 | 1 A generic term for structural members that are square in cross section. Examples are found on the steps… |
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| kakugōshi tamagaki 角格子玉垣 | Also called kakutamagaki 角玉垣 or *tatehigo tamagaki 竪籤玉垣. A… |
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| kakurenji 角連子 | Lit. square lattice. Lattice that is square in cross section. A single section of lattice is called renjiko 連子子.… |
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| kakuzai 角材 | Any cut timber that is square in cross section. |
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| kamachi 框 | 1 The frame, rail or stile of a door, window or sliding screen *shōji… |
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| Kamakura jidai 鎌倉時代 | The Kamakura period (1185-1332) is named for the city in modern Kanagawa Prefecture where Minamoto no Yoritomo 源頼朝 (1147-99… |
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| kame no o 亀の尾 | ✓ | Lit. tortoise tail. Short, diagonally set ribs with thin wooden strips called jaboko 蛇骨子 or koebi 小海老,… |
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| kamebara 亀腹 | Also called *manjūgata 饅頭形. Lit. tortoise belly. |
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| kami no jū 上の重 | Lit. upper floor. Refers to the second story of a two-storied structure. *Jū 重… |
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| kamigamachi 上框 | The top rail or the uppermost horizontal door stile. Also kamizan 上桟. |
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| kamite 上手 | Lit. upper hand. Upper end or high end. The position or seat of higher rank, or the superior position in a hierarchy. In… |
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| kamoi 鴨居 | ✓ | A generic term for a head jamb. Unlike the lintel *magusa まぐさ, kamoi… |
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| Kan'ei bunka 寛永文化 | Kan'ei culture. The culture of the Kan'ei era (1624-44) and by extension that of the whole early Edo period *… |
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| kanabakari-zu 矩計図 | Sectional details. Also kanabakari 矩計. A detailed drawing of the specific parts of a structure in a scale larger… |
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| kaname 要 | A term used for the imaginary center point from which fan rafters *ōgidaruki… |
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| kanbutsu-e 潅仏会 | A ceremony held every year to commemorate Buddha's *Shaka 釈迦 birthday, April 8th… |
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| kaneguchi no nuki 鐘口貫 | A penetrating beam *nuki 貫 that is inserted into the structure of a belfry *… |
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| kanehō 矩方 | A line running at a right angle to another line, or something that moves at a direction of 90 degrees relative to something… |
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| kanekōbai 矩勾配 | The 45 degree pitch of the hypotenuse, the side opposite the right angle, of an isosceles right-angled triangle. A right… |
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| kannuki 閂 | ✓ | A gate bar. A heavy piece of timber or iron used to affix a plank door to its structure. The kannuki is slipped… |
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| kansha 官社 | 1 Shrines which in the Nara and Heian periods received special government supported status. These shrines… |
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| kanshinjiyō 観心寺様 | A composite style that includes a mixture of architectural elements from the daibutsu style *… |
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| karado 唐戸 | Either double plank doors *itakarado 板唐戸 in a single opening or paneled… |
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| karadomen 唐戸面 | ✓ | A molding found on the corners of pillars, sills, etc, often used on paneled doors such as *… |
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| karagaki 唐垣 | Lit. Chinese fence. Also written 韓垣 meaning a Korean fence.
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| karahafu 唐破風 | ✓ | An undulating bargeboard. The shape of a karahafu flows downward from the top center with convex-curves on each… |
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| karaishiki 唐居敷 | ✓ | Also pronounced karaijiki. An abbreviationof kara-ishishiki 唐石敷.
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| karakami shōji 唐紙障子 | Also called *karakami 唐紙. A term used in the late 19th century for opaque… |
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| karaki 唐木 | Also pronounced tōboku; also meiboku 銘木. Timber from the tropics including red sandalwood (rosewood… |
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| karasu tobi 烏鳶 | Also written 烏飛び. |
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| karasugami 烏紙 | Lit. crow paper. Very black paper used under straw mats *tatami 畳. |
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| kasa-ishi 笠石 | Coping stones. A finish on the tops of fences and stone walls to protect them from weathering. Also used on the tops of the… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kasa-ita 笠板 | 1 A crowning board. Similar to the lid placed at the top of storage boxes for rain shutters *… |
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| Kasei bunka 化政文化 | The culture of the Bunka 文化 (1804-18) and Bunsei 文政 eras (1818-30), and by extension, that of the late Edo period as a whole… |
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| kashiranageshi 頭長押 | A horizontal, non-penetrating head beam nailed along the outside and inside of the top face of pillars. If the nails show,… |
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| kashiranuki 頭貫 | ✓ | Horizontal head penetrating tie beams that are connected to the tops of pillars to make them secure. These tie beams may be… |
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| kasugai 鎹 | ✓ | A cleat. A strip of metal or wood driven into two members to hold them together securely. A metal cleat that is bent at each… |
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| kasumi 霞 | ✓ | 1 A pattern representing mist, often stylized into shapes like the ideographs 工 or 王. It is used as a… |
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| kata-ita 形板 | Also written 型板. A template. Boards cut with designs that can be traced onto members that require moldings. For example, the… |
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| katabiki shōji 片引障子 | ✓ | Also katahiki shōji. A single, horizontally sliding translucent screen *shōji… |
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| katabikido 片引戸 | Lit. one-way pull door. A single leaf sliding door that is pulled left and right to open and close. There are two sliding… |
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| katabiraki 片開 | Lit. single swinging door. A rotating door katabirakido 片開戸, or window katabirakimado 片開窓, that… |
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| katamen-zukuri 片面造 | A construction method that uses half brackets on top of the corners in the inner worship sanctuary *… |
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| katanagare 片流 | Also *nagare 流. The slope, in one direction, of one side of a… |
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| katanaka 片中 | A common abbreviation for katanakazumi 片中隅. The point that indicates 1/4 of the entire length of a structural… |
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| kataorido 片折戸 | A folding door that is hinged to a single gate post. When the leaf attached to the gate post is pulled closed, the folding… |
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| katōmado 火灯窓 | ✓ | Also written 花頭窓. A synonym for genjimado 源氏窓. The name is derived from the window in the room called Genji-no-ma… |
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| katsura 葛 | The building material, such as rough or dressed stone, that forms the horizontal edge of a podium *… |
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| katsura-ishi 葛石 | Also pronounced kazura-ishi; also written 桂石.
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| kawabashira 側柱 | Also pronounced gawabashira. The pillars or posts placed on the perimeter of a building to form the basic framework… |
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| kawadodai 側土台 | Also pronounced gawadodai. The ground sill under the outer wall of a traditional architectural structure. … |
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| kawaya 厠 | A proto-modern, generic term for toilet. It is said that centuries ago such facilities were constructed above a swiftly… |
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| kaya 茅 | Originally kaya 上屋 (on top of the house). A proto-modern generic term for the grass and reeds used to thatch roofs… |
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| kayabuki 茅葺 | ✓ | Also *kayabuki yane 茅葺屋根. Lit. thatching with miscanthus. However, the… |
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| kayabuki yane 茅葺屋根 | A thatched roof. |
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| kayaoi 茅負 | ✓ | An eave support. A curved horizontal timber that connects the rafters. It is placed on flying rafters that are under the… |
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| kayōzuka 荷葉束 | Lit. lotus leaf strut. Also read kashōzuka. Commonly called *nigirihasu… |
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| kazaridana 飾棚 | It is found in mansions with large rooms *hiroma 広間, in the shoin… |
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| kazekaeshi 風返 | Also *seki-ita 塞板, maku-ita 幕板, or itamochi… |
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| keage 蹴上 | Also kekomi 蹴込, kekomi-ita 蹴込板 or *kehanashi 蹴放. A riser.… |
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| keban 華盤 | 1 Also called *ukebana 受花. A section of a lotus pedestal *… |
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| kehanashi 蹴放 | ✓ | A threshold or sill. A horizontal timber without grooves, positioned beneath an entrance so that a door or gate closes flush… |
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