| 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 | |
| uchikaeshi 打返し | Also pronounced uttegaeshi 打って返し, utasegaeshi 打たせ返し. Perfect symmetry on both sides of a center line… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| uchikorobi 内転 | Pillars *hashira 柱 with an inward incline. Uchikorobi… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| uchikoshi daruki | ✓ | Rafters *taruki 垂木 that extend from the flying rafter support *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| uchinorinuki 内法貫 | A penetrating tie beam *nuki 貫 placed directly on top of a door or… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| uchinorizai 内法材 | Also called uchinorimono 内法物. The wooden materials used for the framework of a sliding screen *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| udegi 腕木 | 1 A relatively short horizontal timber that functions like a brace. It is attached to and extends outward… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| uguisubari 鴬張 | Lit. "nightingale floor." Floor boards which rub together when walked on to produce a pleasant and delicate sound. This type… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ukegi 受木 | A generic term for all supporting or receiving structural members. For example, a timber that receives an eave cornice is… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| umegi 埋木 | Also read umeki. A wooden dowel or plug used to fill a hole in a piece of timber. If a knot or some other flaw… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| umemodoshi 埋戻 | To fill in any remaining open spaces with sand, gravel, soil, or other such substances, after the foundation and all… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ura-ita 裏板 | A generic term for backing boards, which are boards nailed over rafters to form a backing for the roofing. In an open roof… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| uragaeshi-nuri 裏返塗 | Also called uragaeshi 裏返 or yobinuri 呼塗. Soft, rough plaster arakabe tsuchi 荒壁土 applied to… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| uragaya 裏茅 | Also urappo 裏穂. A thatching material used on vernacular dwellings *minka… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| uragō 裏甲 | ✓ | Visible eaves filler placed the eave support *kayaoi 茅負, and projected slightly… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| uragome 裏込 | Also read uragomi. The process of filling the gaps in the rear of a stone retaining wall or stone fence with rubble… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| urakabe 裏壁 | A plaster wall which has mud plaster applied to the front side and then to the rear side before the plaster on the front… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| urauchi marutagaki 裏打丸太垣 | Also called marutagaki 丸太垣. A fence constructed with logs positioned at fairly close intervals and three horizontal… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| urazan 裏桟 | A crosspiece used to secure the back or upper side of a ceiling board. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| urazumi 裏積 | Bricks or stones set at the back of a brick or stone wall to give it extra support. The term is an abbreviation of … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ushibari 牛梁 | 1 A particularly large beam that runs in a longitudinal direction, ketayuki hōkō 桁行方向 (see *… |
Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings | |
| ushirobutai 後舞台 | The rear stage between dressing rooms and the rear door of the main stage in a *kabuki… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| usushikii 薄敷居 | Lit. "thin sills." A lintel and sill used under and above transom *ranma 欄間.… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| utsubo-bashira 靫柱 | Also written 空柱. Lit. "hollow pillar." A box-like down-spout tatedoi 竪樋 used to carry rainwater from roof gutters… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| uwaba 上端 | Also called tenba 天端. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| uwabari 上張 | Also written 上貼, also called visible top layer keshōbari 化粧張, front side hyōmenbari 表面張 or finishing… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| uwanoki 上軒 | The upper-most eave of a nokizuke 軒付 or nokiba 軒端 eave end. Each part of the eave has a name. The… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| uwanuri 上塗り | 1 Also shiagenuri 仕上げ塗. The final layer applied to a decorative painting sōshoku kōji… |
Art History, Architecture, General Terms, Painting | |
| uwanuri tsuchi 上塗土 | The top or finishing coat of a mud plaster wall, tsuchimonokabe 土物壁 or ōtsukabe 大津壁. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| uyū 烏有 | ✓ | Also called tori-no-shita 鳥の舌 (lit. "bird's tongue"). A somewhat triangular piece of wood added to a bracket arm *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| uzu-ita 渦板 | A board with a carved spiral-like uzusen 渦線 linear design. It is found on frog-leg struts *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
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