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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
daidokoro 台所

1 Believed to be an abbreviated form of *daibandokoro…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
daikoku-bashira 大黒柱 ✓

Also written 大極柱, shin-no-hashira 心の柱, yaku-bashira 役柱, and naka-bashira 中柱.

1…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Shrines
Daikoku 大黒

1 An abbreviation for *Daikokuten 大黒天 (Sk: Mahakala). Regarded by…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Sculpture, Art History
dashibari 出梁

A structural member in the roof of the main part of a dwelling, placed above the 1-bay wide corridor, *…

Architecture, 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
doma 土間

1 Alternatively called *niwa 庭 or dōji どうじ. An area…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
doza 土座

1 A type of floor found in vernacular houses, *minka 民家, used…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
takahei 高塀

Also pronounced takahe. The gable walls of the central thatched portion kirizuma 切妻 of the roof *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
takahei-zukuri 高塀造り

Also pronounced takahe-zukuri. Lit. "high wall construction." Also called *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
takiguchi 焚口

The stokehole or stokeholes in the side of a cooking range *kamado 竃. The…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tana 棚

Shelves.

1  A type of shelf, sometimes with a rack, of which there are many ordinary household…

Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings
tarukidake 垂木竹

Bamboo rafters that span from the ridge *munagi 棟木 to the eave ends *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tateana jūkyo 竪穴住居

A pit dwelling. Generally a house type with a sunken, excavated floor. Houses of this type existed in Japan from the Jōmon…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tateba 立て場

1 Small settlements between the larger officially recognized inn towns *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
teppōdoko 鉄砲床

A term for an alcove or recess of the *oshi-ita 押板 type found in…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tokomise 床見世

Also written 床店. A small shop *mise 店, or stall, used for retail…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tomobeya 伴部屋

Also written 供部屋. A room used principally by the servants or attendants tomo 伴, 供 of high ranking visitors both as…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tōriniwa 通り庭 ✓

An earthfloored area *doma 土間 or *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tsuchido 土戸

1 In the Heian and Kamakura periods, a gate in a pise mud wall *tsuiji…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Storehouses
tsuji 辻

1 A crossroads or intersection of two roads. See *zushi…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tsukabumi 束踏

1 An alternative term for the base ridge *jimune 地棟. The base…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tsunagibari 繋梁

Lit. "connecting beam."

1 Also *geyabari 下屋梁. A short…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tsuribeya 吊り部屋

A small upper floor or mezzanine loft space *chūnikai 中二階, usually only about…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tsushi nikai 厨子二階 ✓

Also read zushi nikai. A loft in the roof space of a single-story vernacular house *…

Architecture, Folk 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