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tsunagi-no-shiro 繋の城

Same as tsunagijiro or tsunagishiro 繋城.

1 A type of branch castle *…

Architecture, Castles
tsunagibari 繋梁

Lit. "connecting beam."

1 Also *geyabari 下屋梁. A short…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tsunaginuki 繋貫

A penetrating tie beam used to stabilize the lower part of exposed posts *subashira…

Architecture, General Terms
tsungomihozo 包込ほぞ

Also read tsukkomihozo. Also *sashikomihozo 差込ほぞ. Tsungomi…

Architecture, General Terms
tsunodo 角戸

Also tsunogarado 角柄戸. Lit. "rectangular door." A type of wicket *kido…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tsura-ichi 面一

A perfectly smooth, absolutely flat, unblemished surface. The term is applied to timber or stone structural members.

Architecture, General Terms
tsura-ishi 面石 ✓

The exterior face of a stone rampart or a stone fence. In cases where both the front and back surfaces of a stone or wall…

Architecture, General Terms
tsuremitsudo 連三斗 ✓

Shortened form of tsure mitsudogumi 連三斗組. A variation of mitsudogumi 三斗組 (*…

Architecture, General Terms
tsuriago 吊顎

Dangling chin, a gimmick used on some bugaku masks *bugakumen…

Art History, Sculpture
tsuriaki 吊空

The gap between an opened door or gate stile and the pillar to which it is attached.

Architecture, General Terms
tsuribei 釣塀

A decoy wall, or pseudo-wall. A wall that was built so as to hang over an earthen embankment or stone wall of a castle. When…

Architecture, Castles
tsuribeya 吊り部屋

A small upper floor or mezzanine loft space *chūnikai 中二階, usually only about…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tsuridana 釣棚

A general term for hanging shelves or shelves suspended from the ceiling by a stick or a piece of bamboo, especially used in…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tsuridoko 釣床 ✓

Also written 吊床, or called kabedoko 壁床. A type of alcove *tokonoma 床の間 which has…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tsuridōrō 釣灯籠 ✓

Also *kaitomoshi 掻灯. A lantern hung from the corner of the eaves of a…

Architecture, Lanterns
tsurigi 釣木 ✓

Also written 吊木; called tenjō tsurigi 天井釣木. Long narrow strips of wood, like straps, that provide support for a…

Architecture, General Terms
tsurikabe 釣壁

Also written 吊壁. A narrow wall suspended from a ceiling to form the front and side of a boundary for an alcove set in the…

Architecture, General Terms
tsurikanamono 釣金物

Also written 吊金物. Metal fittings that are used to suspend various types of structural members, which include: hanging struts…

Architecture, General Terms
tsurimanako 釣眼

A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing the God of Thunder. Great…

Art History, Sculpture
tsurimoto kamachi 吊元框

Also called tsurimoto 吊元, jikumoto kamachi 軸元框. The stile, tatekamachi 縦框, of a door or gate…

Architecture, General Terms
tsurimoto karado 吊元唐戸

Also jikumoto karado 軸元唐戸; moroori ryōbiraki 両折両開. Two doors *…

Architecture, General Terms
tsurujima 鶴島

Lit. "crane island." A garden island made with several stones and, usually, a pine to suggest the flight of a crane. As a…

Architecture, Gardens
tsushi nikai 厨子二階 ✓

Also read zushi nikai. A loft in the roof space of a single-story vernacular house *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
Tsuta-no-hosomichi 蔦の細道

Lit. "narrow road of ivy." Pictorial subject matter taken from Episode 9, *Azuma…

Art History, Painting, Document
tsutsugata 筒形

A barrel shape or cylindrical shape. Example: *marugawara 丸瓦…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
tsutsumi nakago 包み中型

Enclosed inner mould. The *nakago 中型 was a term used in metal…

Art History, Sculpture
tsutsumigawara 包み瓦

Also called *fusumagawara 伏間瓦. Lit. "dike tile." A slightly…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
tsuyazumi 艶墨

A shiny black colorant made by mixing thick carbon ink *sumi 墨 with rice paste…

Art History, Painting
tsuzuki-e 続絵

Also written 続画. A set of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 prints with a continuous composition in…

Art History, Painting
tsuzuki yagura 続櫓

Tower connected with a gate or another tower. Examples connected to gates include Hikone-jō Taikomon 彦根城太鼓門 in Shiga…

Architecture, Castles

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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