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| daibutsuyō 大仏様 | Lit. Indian style. The style of architecture introduced to Japan when the priest Chōgen 重源 (1121-1206) returned from China.… |
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| daibutsuyō kumimono 大仏様組物 | Also daibutsuyō tokyō 大仏様斗きょう. Lit. Great-Buddha-style bracket complex. A bracket system introduced by the priest,… |
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| daijinbashira 大臣柱 | Also called wakibashira 脇柱; taishōbashira 大将柱. Initially, the square post placed at the right front corner… |
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| daikagura-zukuri 太神楽造 | Also called daikagurabashira 太神楽柱; *kudabashira 管柱 or… |
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| daiku 大工 | Carpenter. |
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| daimochitsugi 台持継 | ✓ | A center joint. An oblique scarf joint combining a housed *daboso 太ぼそ joint and blind tenons. The mortises are… |
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| daito 大斗 | ✓ | The largest type of bearing block *masu 斗, usually placed directly on top of a… |
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| daito hijiki 大斗肘木 | ✓ | A large bearing block *daito 大斗 with a bracket arm *… |
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| daiwa 台輪 | ✓ | 1 A wall plate or top plate placed along the top of head-penetrating tie beams *… |
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| dan 段 | 1 Also written 反. A step. The level part or tread of a flight of stairs. When made of wood, the tread is… |
Art History, Architecture, General Terms, Crafts | |
| dan 檀 | 1 A generic term for a level mound or platform raised above the surrounding ground. An earthen mound may be… |
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| danbashigo 段梯子 | ✓ | A simple step-ladder, also called hashigo 梯子 or hashigodan 梯子段. Examples include a *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| danbuki 段葺 | 1 A roofing method that uses copper sheets laid in a step-like pattern. |
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| danjōzumi 壇上積 | ✓ | Also written 壇正積; danjōzumi kidan 壇上積基壇. A style of podium introduced to Japan from Korea in the latter half of the… |
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| danmen 断面 | Lit. a section. A vertical section scale drawing of a building or architectural detail shown either transversely, … |
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| danmen-zu 断面図 | Also yokodanmen-zu 横断面図, also read ōdanmen-zu. Lit. a cross section drawing on the longitudinal axis. … |
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| dashigeta 出桁 | 1 Also called *gagyō 丸桁 or gangyō. A round-eave purlin… |
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| de 出 | 1 Also deha 出端. Any architectural member which protrudes, projects, or extends outward. When… |
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| deaibuchi 出合縁 | ✓ | The framing of opaque sliding screens, *fusuma 襖, and translucent sliding… |
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| degumi 出組 | ✓ | A one-stepped bracket complex parallel to but separated from the wall by the extension of a rainbow beam, *… |
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| deha 出端 | Also called de 出. |
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| demitsudo 出三斗 | ✓ | Lit. three-on-one at right angles. Sometimes called crisscrossed 3-on-1. A bearing block and bracket complex consisting of… |
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| denraihin 伝来品 | Lit. things from overseas. |
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| denseihin 伝世品 | Lit. things from past generations. Art works or antiquities which have been treasured among people for long period of time.… |
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| desumi 出隅 | ✓ | Also pronounced dezumi. Also written 出角. The external corner where two walls join to form an angle. The interior… |
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| dōbari 胴張 | ✓ | Entasis. The bulge in the center of a circular pillar to make it appear straight. In Japan, circular pillars called *… |
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| dobei 土塀 | Also read tsuchibei. Also called *tsuiji 築地. An earthen wall or… |
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| dodai 土台 | A sill, ground sill, or footplate. Generally the heavy timber members laid horizontally at the base of a wooden building… |
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| dodomezan 土留桟 | Also called tsuchidomesan. Narrow timber strips nailed horizontally to roof sheathing, *… |
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| doibuki 土居葺 | 1 Generally a base for tile roofing, *kawarabuki 瓦葺. A… |
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| doinuri 土居塗 | The process of spreading clay on the prepared surface of a roof in order to lay roof tiles, *… |
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| dōjiseki 童子石 | Lit. guardian boy's stones. Two symbolic garden stones (see *yakuishi 役石）… |
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| dokuritsubashira 独立柱 | Independent post. An internal freestanding post, *hashira 柱, not attached to… |
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| dōsan 胴桟 | Also written dōzuri 胴摺. The widest horizontal stile in the door of *heijūmon… |
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| dotome-ita 土留板 | Also read dodome-ita, and called *seki-ita 堰板. The sheathing boards… |
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| dōzashi 胴差 | A large, heavy horizontal timber attached to the tops of posts, *hashira 柱,… |
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| yagura kemudashi 櫓煙出 | ✓ | Also written 櫓烟出. Also read yagura kemuridashi. An opening constructed in a thatched roof to allow the escape of… |
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| yaguranuki 櫓貫 | Commonly double-penetrating, diagonally placed beams that connect the main post *… |
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| yakata tenjō 屋形天井 | 1 A ceiling with the same pitch as the roof. Really, an exposed ceiling *… |
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| yakuba 役場 | 1 The parts of a stone wall such as exterior corners, top surfaces, or openings for drainage where… |
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| yamamichi katō 山道火灯 | A window used especially in the Zen style *zenshūyō 禅宗様; a type of ogival… |
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| yamato 大和 | ✓ | 1 An abbreviation for yamatouchi-no-to 大和打の戸 or yamatouchi 大和打. A door that has vertical… |
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| yamatobuki 大和葺 | ✓ | 1 A type of board roofing made by first spacing boards of equal width at predetermined intervals and then… |
Architecture, General Terms, Tea Houses |
| yane-ita 屋根板 | A generic name for various types of roofing boards including *noji-ita… |
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| yane kōzō 屋根構造 | ✓ | The construction of the roof framework or roof truss over the body of a building. The essential framing for a gable roof *… |
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| yane 屋根 | ✓ | Also called okugai 屋蓋, lit. "roof covering." A generic term for various types of roofs, roof styles, and roofing.… |
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| yanebuki 屋根葺 | Roofing or roof covering. The most commonly used types of roofing are clay tiles *… |
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| yanegae 屋根替 | Rethatching, retiling, or reshingling a roof whereby old roofing is replaced with new roofing. |
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| yanekugi 屋根釘 | Also kobanekugi 小羽根釘. Small round bamboo roofing nails, with a diameter between 2.1 to 2.8 mm and a length from 50… |
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| yaneura 屋根裏 | 1 See *keshō yaneura 化粧屋根裏. 2 An… |
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| yaraiko 矢来子 | The framing members of a fence. They may be vertical, horizontal, diagonal, or arranged to form squares or lozenges. A variety… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| yareigeta 破井桁 | ✓ | Lit. "broken well crib." Also yabureigeta. A design used for muntins *kumiko… |
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| yatsumune-zukuri 八棟造 | ✓ | Lit. "eight-ridge construction." A complicated roof style with multiple ridges and bargeboards, or large vernacular house… |
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| yawari 矢割 | A method of stone-splitting achieved by boring a hole in the stone. A wedge *kusabi… |
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| Yayoi jidai 弥生時代 | The Yayoi period (ca. 400 BCE to 250 CE). The period is marked by the establishment of rice cultivation and an agrarian… |
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| yō 様 | A suffix. When used in architectural history, it means a technical style, as in *… |
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| yodo 淀 | ✓ | Also yodogi 淀木 or yodonuki 淀貫. Tapered horizontal timber, 12-15 cm wide and 4.5 cm thick, placed on top of… |
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| yōjigane 楊枝鉄 | Also called chikara gane 力鉄 or kanehōzu-e 鉄方杖. |
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| yoko-ita 横板 | 1 Horizontal, parallel boards with a wood grain that runs sideways. In shrine architecture *… |
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| yokome-ita 横目板 | Also called *oshibuchi 押縁. Narrow, thin battens placed horizontally over… |
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| yokoshigezan 横繁桟 | ✓ | Closely spaced horizontal crosspieces commonly found on latticed doors *mairado… |
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| yokoshino 横篠 | ✓ | 1 The horizontal line of a bamboo joint. |
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| yokozan 横桟 | ✓ | Also called nakazan 中桟. A generic term for the parallel crosspieces used to frame doors, windows, and other… |
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| yokozando 横桟戸 | ✓ | A timber door frame into which horizontal boards are set. The seams tsugime 継目 are hidden by crosspieces nailed in… |
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| yomezuka 嫁束 | Also called *kirizuka 切束, komitatara 込たたら. A short strut… |
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| yoroido 鎧戸 | Also called gararido がらり戸. The horizontal, louver boards yoroi-ita 鎧板 of a door that run parallel to each… |
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| yosegi 寄木 | 1 The upper horizontal timber yosegi 寄木, in a transom, called *… |
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| yosejikii 寄敷居 | ✓ | Also called *tatamiyose 畳寄, or abbreviated to yose 寄. A horizontal timber level with… | Architecture, General Terms |
| yosemune yane 寄棟屋根 | ✓ | Also abbreviated to yosemune 寄棟, also called yotsuyane 四つ屋根. A hipped roof. A roof that descends from the… |
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| yosemune-zukuri 寄棟造 | Also called *shia 四阿 in the Nara period. Also komune-zukuri 小棟造, … |
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| yoshido 葭戸 | A sliding door or screen filled with reeds yoshi 葭 or ashi 葦, sometimes called match stick blinds, to admit summer… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| yoshigaki 葭垣 | Also ashigaki 葦垣. Also called yoshizubei 葭簀塀 or yoshizugaki 葭簀垣. A fence made of ditch reed … |
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| Yoshino jidai 吉野時代 | The Yoshino period. A seldom-used, rather old-fashioned term for the Southern and Northern Courts period *… |
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| yotesaki tokyō 四手先斗きょう | A 4-stepped bracket complex found mainly on the upper part of a *tahōtō 多宝塔.… |
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| yotsuya maruta 四谷丸太 | Also called yotsuya migaki maruta 四谷磨き丸太 or migaki maruta 磨き丸太. A cedar log stripped of its bark and then… |
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| yūgen 幽玄 | Lit. "profound mystery." A multivalent and influential medieval aesthetic ideal expressing darkness, depth, mystery,… |
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| yukachigai 床違 | Floors that have different levels. For example, the floor of the alcove *tokonoma… |
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| yukadaka 床高 | The distance from the top surface of a floor to the ground below. The term can also refer to the height of a building's… |
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| yukaura 床裏 | The space made by the joists *neda 根太, between the flooring of a second story and… |
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| yukazuka 床束 | Short struts placed on base stones beneath a floor to support the sleepers *ōbiki… |
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| yukimi shōji 雪見障子 | Also called *agesage shōji 上下障子 (up and down shōji). Lit. "snow… |
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| yumi ranma 弓欄間 | ✓ | Also called namiranma 波欄間 (wave-patterned slats), takewaki ranma 立涌欄間 (vertical billow-patterned slats in… |
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| yūri odaruki 遊離尾垂木 | ✓ | Separated tail rafters supported by fulcrums which in turn support long purlins at their mid point and at each end. They are… |
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| yuta-zukuri 雪打造 | Also written 雨打造. A style of architecture that employs pent roof. A common 13th-19th century expression for *… |
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