| 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 | |
| naga-ita 長板 | Lit. "a long board."
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Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| naga-itabuki 長板葺 | 1 An early term for long boards used on roofs. Records dating from the 8th century first used the terms… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nagakikkō 長亀甲 | An elongated hexagon or a decorative pattern consisting of a series of elongated hexagon shapes. |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| nagamarugawara 長丸瓦 | Longer than standard semi-cylindrical roof tiles used as coping tiles *kasagawara… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| nagare 流 | Lit. "flowing." |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nagare-zukuri 流造 | ✓ | Also nagare hafu-zukuri 流破風造. A widely used style of main sanctuary *… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| nagarehozo 流ほぞ | ✓ | A sloped tenon, which is cut into the end of a beam. The top of the tenon is flush with the top surface of the beam. The… |
Architecture, Joints |
| nagashi 流し | 1 A sink used for washing food before its preparation, for washing utensils after a meal, or for washing… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| nagate 長手 | The long side of a timber, or a timber placed in a lengthwise direction. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nagatoko 長床 | A room at Kumano Jinja 熊野神社, in Fukushima Prefecture, which is similar to a worshipper's hall *… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| nagaya 長屋 | Longhouse, or row house. A house with a long ridge. Also indicates a house with a number of residences connected under a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nagayamono 長屋物 | The smallest of three standard sizes of roof tiles yanegawara 屋根瓦, used during the 17th-19th century. The… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| Nageiredō 投入堂 | ✓ | Also once known as Zaōdō 蔵王堂. The Nageiredō is a small building, constructed in the overhang style kake-zukuri 懸造,… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| nagekakebari 投掛梁 | ✓ | A transverse beam *hari 梁 made in two sections and coupled by a stub-tenon-… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| nageshi 長押 | ✓ | Non-penetrating tie beams that are made to fit around pillars *hashira 柱 of… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| nageshibiki 長押挽 | A long rectangular beam cut along a diagonal cross-section and used as a non-penetrating tie *nageshi… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nagimayu 薙眉 | Also called naginata mayu 薙刀眉 or 長刀眉. A type of carved molding *kurigata… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| naginatazori 長刀反 | A sudden strong, upward curve at the corner ends of eaves. Especially characteristic of the Zen style *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| naidō 内堂 | Buddhist priests' living quarters. Higher-ranking priests had two rooms one behind the other. The inner room was called the… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| naiheki 内壁 | 1 An interior wall partition. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| naijimon 内侍門 | Also read naishimon. Traditionally, the timbergate through which virgin attendants entered a shrine. Structurally,… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| naijin 内陣 | ✓ | The inner sanctum located in the main halls *kondō 金堂 or *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| naijinbashira 内陣柱 | ✓ | Also called moyabashira 母屋柱; irikawabashira入側柱. The pillars placed on the boundary between, or slightly… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| naijō 内城 | The innermost compound *kuruwa 郭 of a castle. Sometimes called *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| naiku 内区 | ✓ | The inner section of the pendant *gatō 瓦当, attached to a semi-… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| Naikūgen torii 内宮源鳥居 | Small entrance-gates at Yoshida Jinja 吉田神社 in Kyoto. They are located in front of two small shrines behind the octagonal… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| nainaijin 内内陣 | 1 A miniature shrine within the sanctuary of a Shinto shrine. |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| naka-ita 中板 | A board which is inserted between the host's mat *temaedatami 点前畳 and the… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| naka-no-kuchi 中の口 | 1 A semi-formal entrance to Honmaru Goten 本丸御殿, the main palace in Edo-jō 江戸城. It was situated at the east… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Naka-no-Mibumon 中の壬生門 | According to the Shokunihongi 続日本紀, a gate leading to the waiting area for all officials, chōshūden… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| naka-no-to 中の戸 | 1 A generic term for a door connecting two areas of a structure.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| nakabachi-no-tsukubai 中鉢の蹲踞 | A garden wash-basin set characterized by the use of gravel surrounding it. The gravel allows the water from hand washing to… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| nakabashira 中柱 | 1 Also *daimebashira 台目柱. A small pillar which stands at… |
Architecture, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings | |
| nakado 中戸 | ✓ | A pair of sliding doors *hikichigai 引違, separating the front… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| nakadoi 中樋 | ✓ | A rain gutter placed at the bottom point where two roofs meet. Similar to *narabidō 双堂… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| nakadoma machiya 中土間町家 | An urban vernacular residence *machiya 町家, characterised by a… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| nakadoma 中土間 | An inner earth-floored area found in *nakadoma machiya… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| nakagamachi 中框 | Also called nakazan 中桟. A middle rail. A horizontal rail or rails inserted into stiles tategamachi 竪框 and… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nakahōdate 中方立 | A vertical, finishing strip of wood placed between the threshold *shikii 敷居 and… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nakai 中居 | 1 A private service-oriented room in the mansions of aristocrats, warriors, retired emperors, abbots and… |
Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings | |
| nakaita-no-seki 中板席 | A tea ceremony room or house that contains a board *naka-ita 中板, set between the host's mat… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| nakajō 中城 | Also *ni-no-maru 二の丸, ni-no-kuruwa 二の郭, naka-no-maru 中の丸.… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| nakako 中子 | ✓ | Also called sakuko 柵子, kakusaku 角柵, marutazaku 丸太柵. The stakes used to support the fencing set in… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| nakakugi 中釘 | Also *hanakugi 花釘, tokonakakugi 床中釘 (see *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| nakakuguri 中潜 | Lit. "middle wicket." Also pronounced uchisomi. It is sometimes called kuguri 潜. A type of middle… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| nakaniwa 中庭 | 1 A place for hanging clothes in vernacular dwellings of the Kantō 関東 region.
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Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| nakanuri 中塗り | ✓ | Also called chūgomi 中込, nakazuke or chūzuke 中付. A middle layer of plaster applied between the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| nakaore 中折 | An architectural element that is bent or has a concave mid-point. A diagonal brace, for example, if less than 90 cm wide,… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nakashikii 中敷居 | Also read chūjikii. Lit. "middle sill." A sill on a shelf that divides a closet into two parts, lower and upper.… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nakasukido 中透戸 | Also called nakashōji 中障子, yoshiwara shōji 吉原障子, takeshōji 竹障子, nakanukido 中抜戸 and … |
Architecture, General Terms |
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