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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
daigiri-oga 台切大鋸

A large crosscut saw with a blade 70 cm long and 30 cm wide that has a wooden handle at each end for two people. This saw…

Architecture, Tools
dainaoshiganna 台直鉋

A plane used to shave the base of another plane. It is very important in planing that the base of the plane stock, known as…

Architecture, Tools
dōtsukinoko 胴付鋸 ✓

Lit. saw with attached spine. A tenon or back saw. A saw designed especially to cut the shoulder of a tenon. The blade is…

Architecture, Tools
oga 大鋸

Also pronounced ōga. A ripsaw thought to have been introduced to Japan from China at the beginning of the 15th…

Architecture, Tools
oni-arashikō ganna 鬼荒仕工鉋

A preliminary roughing plane. The oni-arashiko ganna has only a single cutting blade, expressed as ichimaiganna…

Architecture, Tools
ono 斧

An ax. The ax has existed since the Stone Age, and was one of the earliest implements used by man. Its design was improved,…

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