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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
daiban 台盤

A long, low, rectangular table on which food was served in the emperor's residential compound, Dairi 内裏, of the imperial…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
daibandokoro 台盤所

A room that contains a *daiban 台盤, a long, low, rectangular table on which food…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
daidokoro 台所

1 Believed to be an abbreviated form of *daibandokoro…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
dei 出居

An abbreviated form of idei-no-za 出居座, lit. lodging without, lodging away from the main structure of a residence.…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
jibukuro 地袋 ✓

A small cabinet with sliding doors at the bottom of open, often split-level shelves *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
jihiro 地火炉

Also read jikaro.

1 A hearth *ro 炉 excavated in…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
jōdan 上段 ✓

A dais or a part of the floor in aristocratic dwellings of the *shoin 書院 style,…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
jōjōdan 上々段 ✓

A relatively small space elevated one step higher than the *jōdan 上段,…

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