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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
yanagidana 柳棚

Lit. "willow shelf." An asymmetrical arrangement of three decorative shelves tokowakidana 床脇棚 arranged in the…

Architecture, Aristocratic 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
yūgiridana 夕霧棚

An arrangement of three staggered shelves in the upper half of the recess *tokowaki…

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