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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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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