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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
chanoma 茶の間

Lit. tearoom. A Edo period communal living room usually containing a hearth *irori…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
chigi 千木

Also written 鎮木, 知木, 知疑. Also higi 氷木.

1 Forked finials, which are found on most Shinto…

Architecture, Shrines, Folk Dwellings
chōdai 帳台

1 A curtained sleeping platform used by those of highest rank in shinden style *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
chōdaigamae 帳台構え

1 A built-in ornamental doorway found in the raised area *jōdan…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
chōna-zukuri 釿造り

A method of construction that employed long substantial beams called *chōnabari…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
chōnabari 釿梁 ✓

Transverse roof beams that span the distance from the center posts of a vernacular house with a thatched roof to the *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
chūmon-zukuri 中門造り

A type of vernacular house *minka 民家, characterized by one or more wings or…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
chūnikai 中二階 ✓

A term for a loft or attic occupying the roof space of a vernacular house *minka…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
daidokoro 台所

1 Believed to be an abbreviated form of *daibandokoro…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
daikoku-bashira 大黒柱 ✓

Also written 大極柱, shin-no-hashira 心の柱, yaku-bashira 役柱, and naka-bashira 中柱.

1…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Shrines
Daikoku 大黒

1 An abbreviation for *Daikokuten 大黒天 (Sk: Mahakala). Regarded by…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Sculpture, Art History
dashibari 出梁

A structural member in the roof of the main part of a dwelling, placed above the 1-bay wide corridor, *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
dei 出居

An abbreviated form of idei-no-za 出居座, lit. lodging without, lodging away from the main structure of a residence.…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
doma 土間

1 Alternatively called *niwa 庭 or dōji どうじ. An area…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
doza 土座

1 A type of floor found in vernacular houses, *minka 民家, used…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings

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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