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chōna 釿 ✓

An adze. Also written 手斧. A carpenters' tool with a curved handle fitted with a blade. It is used for rough finishing of…

Architecture, Tools
chūshikō ganna 中仕工鉋

A smoothing plane, used to further smooth the surface of timber after the general roughing plane *…

Architecture, Tools
uchidashinomi 打出し鑿

A strike-through chisel. Normally, when constructing a pass-through mortise, the timber is carved away from both sides with…

Architecture, Tools
uragane 裏矩

Also called urame 裏目.
The scale marked on the back side of a carpenter's square, which is the square root of…

Architecture, Tools

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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