| 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 | |
| raigō-kabe 来迎壁 | ✓ | Also called raigō-heki. A clay or wooden wall erected behind a Buddhist altar *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| raigōbashira 来迎柱 | Two or four-circular pillars right and left at each corner of the Buddhist altar to define the most sacred place in a temple… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| raimon kōshi 雷文格子 | Lattice arranged in a fret pattern, used especially on railings of balconies. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ranma 欄間 | ✓ | A transom. A rectangular opening, longer in the horizontal direction, constructed between the lintels *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| ranseki 乱石 | ✓ | Also called no-ishizumi 野石積. Stones with an irregular shape. Those that are somewhat square are called nozura-… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| ransekizumi kidan 乱石積基壇 | Also referred to as ranzumi kidan 乱積基壇, ranzō ransekizumi 乱層乱石積, kuzure ishizumi くずれ石積 or simply… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ranzumi 乱積 | Also called *ransekizumi 乱石積, waraizumi 笑い積. Randomly piled natural stones *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| renjimado 連子窓 | Also written 櫺子窓. Lit. "a row lath window." |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| rensō 連窓 | Multiple windows. Two or more windows connected horizontally, or windows connected within one frame window with vertical… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| rensōmado 連双窓 | ✓ | Rensōmado means double windows. Two windows in line. Also called *meotomado… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| rō 廊 | A roofed corridor or passageway that connects one structure to another. It may also encompass an open area. There are… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ro 炉 | ✓ | A sunken hearth. A square box installed into the floor of a tea ceremony room to make a charcoal fire. The standard size… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| rō-zukuri 楼造 | ✓ | A gate *rōmon 楼門, that appears to have two stories, but in reality is a high… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| roban 露盤 | ✓ | Commonly used abbreviation of shō roban 承露盤; also called masugata 枡形. Originally, an entire spire *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| rodai 露台 | ✓ | 1 An unroofed platform, a dais, or a projected veranda or balcony. |
Architecture, General Terms |
| rōka 廊下 | 1 A hallwayor corridor within a building giving access to various rooms. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| roku 陸 | Also riku. A synonym for suihei 水平 meaning level. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| rokuchū-zukuri 六注造 | Also called rokkaku yane 六角屋根. A six-sided roof that covers an hexagonal building *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| rōkyō 廊橋 | Also called hashirō 橋廊. A covered bridge, often with a resting place at the central point. Rōkyō can… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ronji daruki 論治垂木 | Also called koshikake daruki 腰掛垂木, ranji daruki 鸞翅垂木, or tenbō daruki 天望垂木. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ryōbiraki 両開 | Also *kannonbiraki tobira 観音開扉, double doors that open in one… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ryōkusabi 両楔 | Wedges used on the right and left sides to strengthen and to secure a penetrating tie beam inserted into a pillar. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ryōsage 両下 | A type of gable roof *kirizuma-zukuri 切妻造. Also called… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ryūsha 竜車 | Lit. "dragon vehicle." The round or oval section of a pagoda finial *sōrin… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ryūyōdana 柳葉棚 | ✓ | Lit. "willow leaf shelf." |
Architecture, General Terms |
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