| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chadō hayagaten 茶道早合点 | A tea ceremony manual compiled by Chin'a 珍阿 and published in two volumes in 1771. |
Architecture, Tea Houses, Document | |
| Chadō kyūbunroku 茶道旧聞録 | A single volume of regulations for the tea ceremony by Fujimura Yōken 藤村庸軒 (1613-99), edited by his son Seiin 正員 (1650-1733… |
Architecture, Tea Houses, Document | |
| Chadō sentei 茶道筌蹄 | Tea ceremony book, written by Inagaki Kyūsō 稲垣休叟 (1770-1819) in 1816, and published in 1847, printed with woodblocks.… |
Architecture, Tea Houses, Document | |
| chadōshiki chashitsu 茶堂式茶室 | Also called dōshiki chashitsu 堂式茶室. A tea ceremony house which was designed freely according to a tea master's… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| chagake 茶掛 | A hanging scroll *kakemono 掛物 for the alcove of a tearoom, mounted… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| chaire 茶入 | ✓ | A tea caddy, usually ceramic, used to hold strong tea at a tea ceremony. Its dimensions vary, ranging from 3-15… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| chaki 茶器 | 1 General term for tea ceremony utensils. See *chanoyu-no-dōgu… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| chakin 茶巾 | A small napkin used at a tea ceremony for wiping the tea bowl. Generally it is made from a linen cloth 30 cm… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| chakutōden 着到殿 | ✓ | Also written 著到殿 or tōchakuden 到着殿. The designated place for the imperial messenger, chokushi 勅使, and… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| chaniwa 茶庭 | It is also called *roji 露地. Tea garden. The small garden through which one… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| chanoma 茶の間 | Lit. tearoom. A Edo period communal living room usually containing a hearth *irori… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| 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 | |
| chanoyu no dōgu 茶湯の道具 | Implements necessary for the tea ceremony. Generally classified according to: 1 implements to be displayed… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| chanoyugama 茶湯釜 | A cauldron, iron pot, or kettle. Also called *kama 釜 or chagama 茶釜. … |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| chasen 茶筅 | ✓ | A tea whisk used to whip powdered green tea, matcha 抹茶, and hot water in a tea bowl until it froths. The whisk… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| chasengaki 茶筅垣 | ✓ | Lit. tea whisk fence. A type of side fence *sodegaki 袖垣 in which… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| chashaku 茶杓 | ✓ | Lit. tea scoop. A spoon-like utensil used to transfer powdered tea from a tea container *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| chashi チャシ | Fort. An Ainu アイヌ term for a fortification surrounded by a stockade fence or palisade *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| Chashiki kogetsu shō 茶式湖月抄 | Three books in six volumes concerning the rituals and utensils used at tea ceremonies. These volumes were published in 1851… |
Architecture, Tea Houses, Document | |
| chashitsu 茶室 | Room where the tea ceremony is performed or sometimes a whole building where such a room is the center. Styles can broadly… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| Chasō kanwa 茶窓閑話 | A four volume explanation of the method and history of tea ceremony by Chikamatsu Shigenori 近松成矩 (1695-1778), a vassal of… |
Architecture, Tea Houses, Document | |
| chatsubo 茶壷 | Tea jar. Earthenware jars to store tea leaves, usually 30-40 cm in height and 30-35 cm in diameter. From the Kamakura until… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| chawan 茶碗 | ✓ | Also written 茶盗. 1 A generic term for ceramic wares called tōjiki 陶磁器 from the 9th to 16th… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| chichi-no-ma 乳の間 | ✓ | Also called chi-no-ma 乳の間. A horizontal band of small round projections found around the upper part of a temple… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| chichibu ao-ishi 秩父青石 | Lit. Chichibu blue stone. A type of *ao-ishi 青石, blue stone, from… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| chichikanamono 乳金物 | ✓ | Also manjū kanamono 饅頭金物 (see *manjūgata 饅頭形), hoshu 鋪首,… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| chidori-ashi-uchi 千鳥足打ち | A staggered style of round-stone paving *tama-ishijiki 玉石敷… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| 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 |
| chidorigake 千鳥掛 | The method of off-setting alternate stepping stones *tobi-ishi 飛石 to create a… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| chigaidana 違い棚 | ✓ | Staggered shelves. Considered part of the *shoin 書院 style… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| 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 | |
| chigiri 千切 | Also written 衽. Also called kusabitsugi 楔継 or suriawasetsugi 摺合継. A small wooden spline, cleat, tie, or… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| chigiritsugi 千切継 | ✓ | Also written 衽継 or 膝継. Spline joints using small pieces of wood, tenons inserted into the slots, mortises, cut in… |
Architecture, Joints |
| 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 |
| chigomunekawara 稚児棟瓦 | ✓ | Roof tiles used to make the offspring ridge *chigomune 稚児棟, a short… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| chikaradake 力竹 | ✓ | Also aibashira 間柱. A white bamboo post with an odd number of joints, which is positioned beneath the eave overhang… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| 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 |
| chikirinawa ちきり縄 | Lit. cross-stitch layout. Also read chigirinawa. Also written 蟄亀利縄. A generic term for various types of castle… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| chimaki 粽 | ✓ | The rounded-off top of a pillar. In the daibutsu style *daibutsuyō… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| chinjusha 鎮守社 | ✓ | Also read chinju no yashiro. It is sometimes called chinjudō 鎮守堂; dojidō 土地堂; … |
Architecture, Shrines |
| chinkuguri 狆潜 | ✓ | Also called inukuguri 犬潜. The opening between the floor frame of the alcove *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| chira ちら | A mat binding that covers more than half of the wale of a straw mat *tatami 畳… |
Architecture, Accessories | |
| chirashihassō 散八双 | A generic name for the decorative metal fittings *kazarikanagu 飾金具,… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| chirashikanagu 散金具 | A metal fitting *kanagu 金具 attached to the corners of a door and… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| chirashimanji 散万字 | A pattern which consists of swastika manji 卍 motifs inside a square grid. |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| chirashiōgi 散扇 | Also chiriōgi. A decorative, geometric pattern that resembles closed fan shapes on a square grid. It is found on… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| 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 |
| chiriana 塵穴 | ✓ | Dust or trash holes dug under the eaves of the tea hut *chashitsu 茶室, the… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| chirifusegi 塵防 | An extremely low embankment *dote 土手, beside a castle moat *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| chirin 地輪 | 1 The base of a lantern. Also dairin 台輪. 2 The base of a five-storied… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| chiriotoshi 塵落 | Also termed fujōnagashi 不浄流. A garbage drop. An area for discarding garbage and human and animal excrement from… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| chiriotoshi fusuma 塵落襖 | Also called *kirihikite 切引手. The catch on a sliding door used in… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| chiritori 塵取 | A passageway in a castle, used to clean out the moat. An opening in the wall of the main compound of a castle *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| chisen kaiyūshiki teien 池泉回遊式庭園 | Lit. pond stroll style garden. A type of pond garden in which one walks around the pond. The most common kind of large… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| chisen kanshōshiki teien 池泉観賞式庭園 | ✓ | Lit. pond appreciation style. A type of small garden in which the pond is viewed from a veranda or from inside a room,… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| chisen shūyūshiki teien 池泉舟遊式庭園 | Lit. boating pond style. A type of pond-stroll garden *chisen kaiyūshiki… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| chō 丁 | 1 The age divisions of peasants recruited by the state for labor service, building or civil/military… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| chō-no-ya 庁の屋 | Also written 庁舎 and read chō-no-ya or chōsha. A building in which priests gathered to discuss ceremonies… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| chōchinbishi 提灯菱 | Lit. Lantern diamond. A type of diamond pattern *hishi 菱 used on mullions *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| chōdai-no-ma 帳台の間 | A small enclosed room in a large *shoin 書院 style structure built in the… |
Architecture, Aristocratic 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 | |
| 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 | |
| chōjikuzushi 丁字崩 | A decorative, geometric pattern based on the character 丁 chō that is found on transoms *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| chōjō 長城 | Also termed chōrui 長塁, bōrui 防塁. A long defensive fortification consisting of a continuous, extended… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| chōkoku ranma 彫刻欄間 | ✓ | Lit. carved transom. A decorative frieze consisting of carved panels fixed above the head of a door. Transom designs include… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| choku'uchi 直打 | The method of arranging stepping stones *tobi-ishi 飛石 in a straight line. If… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| chokusen yane 直線屋根 | Lit. straight line roof. Roofs without any curved surfaces. A hip roof *yosemune… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| chokushiden 勅使殿 | ✓ | The chokushiden is the place where an envoy, chokushi 勅使, stays when he is sent to a shrine to offer… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| chokushimon 勅使門 | A gate originally used only by the Emperor. Primarily found at Buddhist temples, it is usually a four-legged gate *… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| chōsenshiki yamajiro 朝鮮式山城 | Lit. Korean type mountain castle. A general term for castle structures in Japan that resemble those in ancient Korea.… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| chōshizenshugi 超自然主義 | Lit. hyper-naturalism. The idea of basing a garden, or a single element in it, on nature, but exaggerating the natural… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| chōzu-ishi 手水石 | Lit. hand-washing stone. One of the seven trump stones *nanatsu-ishi 七つ石… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| chōzubachi 手水鉢 | Lit. hand water bowl. A water basin used to rinse the hands or as a decorative element in gardens. Usually made of stone,… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| chōzuya 手水舎 | Also written 手水屋. Also called suibansha 水盤舎 or temizuya 手水舎. Shrine or temple building for cleaning hands… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| chūbō 中房 | The central, circular part of a round, eave-end, pendant tile *gatō 瓦当… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| chūdai 中台 | The middle base of a lantern *tōrō 灯籠 upon which rests the flame holder and… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| chūdan 中段 | Middle area. In upper class residences especially from the Momoyama period and through the Edo period, seating was… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| chūden 中殿 | The space *ai-no-ma 相の間 between the sanctuary *… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| chūdō 中堂 | Lit. central hall. A hall situated between two Buddhist halls or a hall with corridors attached on either side. The most… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| chūjin 中陣 | A term used in shrine architecture: a middle area between the *honden 本殿, *… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| chūkondō 中金堂 | Lit. middle golden hall. An image hall *kondō 金堂 located at the center of… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| chūmon 中門 | 1 Middle gate. The second or inner gate on the north-south axis of a temple compound in the ancient period… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| chūmon-zukuri 中門造り | A type of vernacular house *minka 民家, characterized by one or more wings or… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| chūmonrō 中門廊 | 1 A Heian-period corridor intersected by gates. In the most elaborate Heian-period shinden style… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| chūnikai 中二階 | ✓ | A term for a loft or attic occupying the roof space of a vernacular house *minka… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| 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 | |
| chūshikō ganna 中仕工鉋 | A smoothing plane, used to further smooth the surface of timber after the general roughing plane *… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| chūshin kazari 中心飾 | Also tenjō chūshinkazari 天井中心飾. Lit. center flower. 1 A group of decorative patterns in… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| chūshinseki 中心石 | Lit. center stone(s). A single stone or stone arrangement *ishigumi 石組,… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| chūtō 柱頭 | A synonym for the large bearing block *daito 大斗 placed on the tops of pillars… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| wachigaigawara 輪違瓦 | ✓ | Also tsumegawara 爪瓦. A row of narrow tile pieces cut crosswise from semi-cylindrical tiles *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| wajō 倭城 | A Japanese castle. Refers to 25 castles constructed in various regions of Korea by the Japanese forces during the Bunroku-… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| wakaba 若葉 | ✓ | 1 An abstract decorative pattern of extended curved lines based on the form of a leaf. The pattern is… |
Architecture, Decorations |
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