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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
shakemachi 社家町

A township composed of *shake 社家, families who held posts (usually hereditary) as…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
shikibari 敷梁

Also *ushibari 牛梁, nakahikibari 中引梁, ushihikibari 牛引梁, …

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
shimodaidokoro 下台所

Lit. "lower kitchen."

1 The outermost part of the kitchen that functioned as a service zone in the…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
shimomise 下店

1 A room in the front *shimote 下手 corner of the earth-floored…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
shishimado 獅子窓

1 A large window in the front wall frame of a principal living room *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
shukubamachi 宿場町

A type of settlement or township which developed along major trunk roads during the medieval and early modern periods,…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
shukuya 宿屋

A vernacular house *minka 民家, in the style known as *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
shukuya-zukuri 宿屋造

1 A term for a style of vernacular residence *minka 民家, with…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
sodeudatsu 袖卯立 ✓

Lit. "sleeve udatsu." Extensions of the gable parapet walls *udatsu 卯立…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
sudomon 簀戸門

Lit. "latticed door gate." A type of garden gate which features lattice, or basket-work of split bamboo. Varieties include…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
suzumeodori 雀踊 ✓

Lit. "sparrow dance." A widely-used term for a range of elements used to decorate the ridge of the roof in vernacular houses…

Architecture, General Terms, 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