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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
tako 蛸 ✓

A tool called a "punner" in English, used to pound down broken stones laid below the foundation of a building. It consists…

Architecture, Tools
tatakinomi 叩鑿

A striking chisel. The primary structural elements in Japanese wooden buildings are pillars and beams, and not supporting…

Architecture, Tools
tatebikinoko 縦挽鋸

A ripsaw. A saw used to cut timber in the same direction as the wood grain. There are various types of ripsaw including: the…

Architecture, Tools
to-ishi 砥石

A whetstone, grinder, or grindstone. A tool used to sharpen the blade of a plane or chisel. Carpenters used a set of ranging…

Architecture, Tools
tsubanomi 鐔鑿

Lit. "sword-guard chisel." The chisel used to make the hole needed to drive a Japanese nail wakugi 和釘 into a piece…

Architecture, Tools
tsuchi 槌

A hammer or mallet. Tsuchi are subdivided into various types according to its use. The *…

Architecture, Tools
tsukinomi 突鑿

A paring chisel that shaves a timber entirely by hand pressure. Chisels called *tatakinomi…

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