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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
uchigenkan 内玄関

A subordinate entry in houses possessing a formal guest entry *genkan 玄関, and…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
udatsu 卯立 ✓

Also written 卯建, 宇立, うだつ; all read udachi, odatsu, or odachi.

1 A term…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
udatsubashira うだつ柱

1 A wide post at the interface between the earth-floored space *doma…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
udatsuya うだつ屋

1 A rudimentary thatched dwelling hut or ancillary structure with a gable roof *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
umaya 馬屋 ✓

A stable. Also written 厩. Also maya 馬屋 or 厩, keiya けいや, and kyūsha 厩舎. Applied to both a…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
ushibari 牛梁

1 A particularly large beam that runs in a longitudinal direction, ketayuki hōkō 桁行方向 (see *…

Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings
ushiroya chūmon 後屋中門

A rear wing which extends from the main structure of a folk dwelling *minka…

Architecture, Gates, Folk Dwellings
usuniwa 臼庭 ✓

1 An alternative term for all or part of the earth-floored area, *doma…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
usuya 臼屋

1 A small-scale freestanding structure containing a mortar or hand mill, usu 臼, for pounding rice…

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