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chōdai-no-ma 帳台の間

A small enclosed room in a large *shoin 書院 style structure built in the…

Architecture, Aristocratic 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
chūdan 中段

Middle area. In upper class residences especially from the Momoyama period and through the Edo period, seating was…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
chūmonrō 中門廊

1 A Heian-period corridor intersected by gates. In the most elaborate Heian-period shinden style…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
miaraka 御殿

Also written 御舎. The emperor's palace or dwellings of the upper class in the proto-historic and early historic periods. The…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
mihashi 御階

The term for steps constructed at the center front of two important imperial palace buildings in Kyoto Gosho 京都御所, the…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
mikawamizu 御溝水

Also mikawa 御溝. Ditches surrounding each building in the Imperial Palace. The present palace, Kyoto Gosho 京都御所, has…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
misubusuma 御簾襖

A variation on the usual style of opaque sliding partitioning screen *fusuma …

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
mizushidokoro 御厨子所

1 A part of the emperor's residential compound Dairi 内裏 in the Imperial Palace, Kyoto Gosho 京都御所. The…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
mushamado 武者窓 ✓

Also bukemado 武家窓, bugyōmado 奉行窓. Edo period windows with heavy vertical lattice bars, used in castle…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, 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