| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| chanoyu 茶湯 | Lit. the hot water for tea. Also known as sadō 茶道 or chadō. The ritual art of preparing and drinking… |
Art History, Tea Houses, General Terms, Architecture | |
| chidori hafu 千鳥破風 | ✓ | Lit. a plover bargeboard. Also written 鵆破風, lit. a trianglular shape. A dormer gable or a dormer bargeboard, or both… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| chigaidana 違い棚 | ✓ | Staggered shelves. Considered part of the *shoin 書院 style… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| chigomune 稚児棟 | ✓ | An offspring ridge. The shorter and outer of the two corner ridges which descend along the line of the adjoining surfaces… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| chikarahijiki 力肘木 | ✓ | Lit. a strengthening bracket arm. An extension of an interior tie beam which terminates on the exterior as a bracket arm *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| chimaki 粽 | ✓ | The rounded-off top of a pillar. In the daibutsu style *daibutsuyō… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| chinkuguri 狆潜 | ✓ | Also called inukuguri 犬潜. The opening between the floor frame of the alcove *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| chiri 散 | ✓ | A generic term used to express the distance between two flat, adjacent surfaces, between the surface of a wall and a post… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| chō 丁 | 1 The age divisions of peasants recruited by the state for labor service, building or civil/military… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| chōdōin 朝堂院 | In ancient Japan, a complex of buildings within the Imperial Palace used for affairs of State, enthronement ceremonies, and… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| chokusen yane 直線屋根 | Lit. straight line roof. Roofs without any curved surfaces. A hip roof *yosemune… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| chōnaguri 釿栗 | Cutting decorative patterns with an adze *chōna 釿 on chestnut wood … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| chōnahajime 釿始 | Also written 釿初, 手斧初. Also called kozukuri hajime 木造り始め or onohajime 斧始め. A carpenter's ceremony performed… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| chōnamekezuri 釿目削 | ✓ | Also called chōnahatsuri 釿斫. A decorative pattern carved into the visible surface of a timber using an adze *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| chūsei kenchiku 中世建築 | Lit. medieval architecture. Temple and shrine buildings erected during the Kamakura, Nanbokuchō, and Muromachi periods when… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| chūtō 柱頭 | A synonym for the large bearing block *daito 大斗 placed on the tops of pillars… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| daibutsuyō 大仏様 | Lit. Indian style. The style of architecture introduced to Japan when the priest Chōgen 重源 (1121-1206) returned from China.… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| daibutsuyō kumimono 大仏様組物 | Also daibutsuyō tokyō 大仏様斗きょう. Lit. Great-Buddha-style bracket complex. A bracket system introduced by the priest,… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| daijinbashira 大臣柱 | Also called wakibashira 脇柱; taishōbashira 大将柱. Initially, the square post placed at the right front corner… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| daikagura-zukuri 太神楽造 | Also called daikagurabashira 太神楽柱; *kudabashira 管柱 or… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| daiku 大工 | Carpenter. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| daimochitsugi 台持継 | ✓ | A center joint. An oblique scarf joint combining a housed *daboso 太ぼそ joint and blind tenons. The mortises are… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| daito 大斗 | ✓ | The largest type of bearing block *masu 斗, usually placed directly on top of a… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| daito hijiki 大斗肘木 | ✓ | A large bearing block *daito 大斗 with a bracket arm *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| daiwa 台輪 | ✓ | 1 A wall plate or top plate placed along the top of head-penetrating tie beams *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| dan 段 | 1 Also written 反. A step. The level part or tread of a flight of stairs. When made of wood, the tread is… |
Art History, Architecture, General Terms, Crafts | |
| dan 檀 | 1 A generic term for a level mound or platform raised above the surrounding ground. An earthen mound may be… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| danbashigo 段梯子 | ✓ | A simple step-ladder, also called hashigo 梯子 or hashigodan 梯子段. Examples include a *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| danbuki 段葺 | 1 A roofing method that uses copper sheets laid in a step-like pattern. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| danjōzumi 壇上積 | ✓ | Also written 壇正積; danjōzumi kidan 壇上積基壇. A style of podium introduced to Japan from Korea in the latter half of the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| danmen 断面 | Lit. a section. A vertical section scale drawing of a building or architectural detail shown either transversely, … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| danmen-zu 断面図 | Also yokodanmen-zu 横断面図, also read ōdanmen-zu. Lit. a cross section drawing on the longitudinal axis. … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| dashigeta 出桁 | 1 Also called *gagyō 丸桁 or gangyō. A round-eave purlin… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| de 出 | 1 Also deha 出端. Any architectural member which protrudes, projects, or extends outward. When… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| deaibuchi 出合縁 | ✓ | The framing of opaque sliding screens, *fusuma 襖, and translucent sliding… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| degumi 出組 | ✓ | A one-stepped bracket complex parallel to but separated from the wall by the extension of a rainbow beam, *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| deha 出端 | Also called de 出. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| demitsudo 出三斗 | ✓ | Lit. three-on-one at right angles. Sometimes called crisscrossed 3-on-1. A bearing block and bracket complex consisting of… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| denraihin 伝来品 | Lit. things from overseas. |
Art History, General Terms | |
| denseihin 伝世品 | Lit. things from past generations. Art works or antiquities which have been treasured among people for long period of time.… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| desumi 出隅 | ✓ | Also pronounced dezumi. Also written 出角. The external corner where two walls join to form an angle. The interior… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| dōbari 胴張 | ✓ | Entasis. The bulge in the center of a circular pillar to make it appear straight. In Japan, circular pillars called *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| dobei 土塀 | Also read tsuchibei. Also called *tsuiji 築地. An earthen wall or… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| dodai 土台 | A sill, ground sill, or footplate. Generally the heavy timber members laid horizontally at the base of a wooden building… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| dodomezan 土留桟 | Also called tsuchidomesan. Narrow timber strips nailed horizontally to roof sheathing, *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| doibuki 土居葺 | 1 Generally a base for tile roofing, *kawarabuki 瓦葺. A… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| doinuri 土居塗 | The process of spreading clay on the prepared surface of a roof in order to lay roof tiles, *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| dōjiseki 童子石 | Lit. guardian boy's stones. Two symbolic garden stones (see *yakuishi 役石）… |
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| dokuritsubashira 独立柱 | Independent post. An internal freestanding post, *hashira 柱, not attached to… |
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| dōsan 胴桟 | Also written dōzuri 胴摺. The widest horizontal stile in the door of *heijūmon… |
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| dotome-ita 土留板 | Also read dodome-ita, and called *seki-ita 堰板. The sheathing boards… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| dōzashi 胴差 | A large, heavy horizontal timber attached to the tops of posts, *hashira 柱,… |
Architecture, General Terms |
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