| 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 | |
| wakido 脇戸 | ✓ | A small door, usually beside the main door of a structure. Sometimes there is one on each side of the main door. |
Architecture, General Terms |
| wakikokabe 脇小壁 | A long, narrow, vertical wall constructed between two or more pillars, or on each side of an entrance or a window. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| wakishōji 脇障子 | Wooden screens placed at the back ends of side verandas *en 縁. They… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| wakizura 脇面 | The left and right sides of a purlin *keta 桁. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| wakugi 和釘 | Also called nihon kugi 日本釘. A square nail used during and after the Kofun period. The nail was made of hand-wrought… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| wakuhijiki 枠肘木 | Two bracket arms *hijiki 肘木 positioned at right angle to one… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| waranawa 藁縄 | 1 Rope made by twisting together strands of straw. In clay statuary, the central wooden core *… |
Art History, General Terms, Architecture, Sculpture | |
| waraza 藁座 | ✓ | 1 Also called enza, maruza 円座, or ukeza kanamono 受座金物. The metal or… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| waridakebari 割竹張 | To cover or enclose with split bamboo. For example, found on the doors of a simple garden gate teimon 庭門 with a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| wariguri-ishi 割栗石 | Also called wariguri 割栗, kuri-ishi 栗石 or guri ぐり (lit. "stones crushed like chestnuts"). Rock… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| wata-ita 綿板 | Also called *ireko-ita 入子板. A board that connects the rails and crosspieces… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| wayō 和様 | 1 Lit. "Japanese style architecture." The architectural techniques and styles introduced from China during… |
Architecture, General Terms, Art History | |
| wayō hijiki 和様肘木 | ✓ | A bracket arm *hijiki 肘木 that is characterized by curved surfaces on the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| wayō kōran 和様高欄 | ✓ | A railing in the wayō style *wayō 和様. The horizontal… |
Architecture, General Terms |
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