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chōna 釿 ✓

An adze. Also written 手斧. A carpenters' tool with a curved handle fitted with a blade. It is used for rough finishing of…

Architecture, Tools
chūshikō ganna 中仕工鉋

A smoothing plane, used to further smooth the surface of timber after the general roughing plane *…

Architecture, Tools
yariganna 槍鉋

A plane thought to have been the only plane employed in ancient times to pare and finish timber. Today carpenters do not use…

Architecture, Tools
yasuri 鑢

U-shaped metal pieces nailed to a gate, allowing it to be locked with a sliding timber gate-bar *…

Architecture, Tools
yokobikinoko 横挽鋸 Also read yokobiki nokogiri. A crosscut saw. A saw used for cutting wood across the grain. Architecture, Tools

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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