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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
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
chūdan 中段

Middle area. In upper class residences especially from the Momoyama period and through the Edo period, seating was…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
chūmonrō 中門廊

1 A Heian-period corridor intersected by gates. In the most elaborate Heian-period shinden style…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
wakiagari 脇上 ✓

The wakiagari allowed visitors to enter or leave the residence from a waiting palanquin kago 駕篭 without…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
wakidana 脇棚 ✓

Shelves forming part of an arrangement in the space next to the decorative alcove *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
waku 枠

A frame constructed around the perimeter of a window or doorway; the opening into which sliding panels and other structural…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings

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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