Skip to main content

JAANUS

  • a (7)
  • b (5)
  • c (8)
  • d (7)
  • e (3)
  • f (2)
  • g (11)
  • h (13)
  • i (11)
  • j (11)
  • k (34)
  • m (24)
  • n (19)
  • o (13)
  • r (1)
  • s (11)
  • t (17)
  • u (9)
  • w (1)
  • y (9)
  • z (1)
  • (-) Folk Dwellings (17)
  • Architecture (17)
  • Aristocratic Dwellings (4)
  • General Terms (1)
  • Shrines (1)
  • Tea Houses (1)

Displaying 1 - 17 of 17
Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
chanoma 茶の間

Lit. tearoom. A Edo period communal living room usually containing a hearth *irori…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
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
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
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
chūmon-zukuri 中門造り

A type of vernacular house *minka 民家, characterized by one or more wings or…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
chūnikai 中二階 ✓

A term for a loft or attic occupying the roof space of a vernacular house *minka…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
yakuba 役場

1 The parts of a stone wall such as exterior corners, top surfaces, or openings for drainage where…

Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings
yamatomune 大和棟

An alternative term for a roof style found on Edo period farmhouses nōka 農家, called *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
yanakadake 屋中竹

Also yamadake 屋間竹. The bamboo purlins, about 20-30 cm in circumference, that are placed about 30-36 cm apart over a…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
yokoza 横座

1 The seat of the principal and most honored guest sonsha 尊者 at formal banquets in the shinden…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
yorikimado 与力窓 ✓

1 A rectangular window used in exterior walls, fitted with thick horizontal timber bars *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
yoritsuki 寄付

Also written 寄附.

1 Room immediately inside an entrance to the raised floor zone; *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses
yotsudate 四つ建て

Also *yoritsuki 寄付. A structural system found in farmhouses, nōka 農家, of the Edo…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
yūjoya 遊女屋

The house of a procurer in the pleasure districts *yūkaku 遊廓 of Edo period…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
yūkaku 遊廓

Also written 遊郭. The pleasure district of the early modern Japanese city. The earliest developed example is said to have…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings

Contributor Login

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