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

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

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

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

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

Lit. "monkey's ears." A pair of cleats that did not really resemble monkey's ears but rather the horns of a bull. The cleats…

Lit. "pointing to the alcove." Ceiling battens *saobuchi 竿縁 or thick straw…

Also written 色代の間. A room or building that projects from (or adjacent and linked by galleries to) the rear of the main…

Also written 色代.

1　A low broad step or platform of timber, which had become a standard feature of the…

A toilet for servants. The toilet used by the elite or by the master in merchants housing was called jōchōzu 上手水.…

Lit. "lower kitchen."

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

One of the residences granted to daimyō 大名 by the Edo government, as part of the system where feudal lords…

1　A large reception room developed in the Momoyama period, used by military leaders, daimyō …