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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.…

Architecture, General Terms
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,…

Architecture, General Terms
daijinbashira 大臣柱

Also called wakibashira 脇柱; taishōbashira 大将柱. Initially, the square post placed at the right front corner…

Architecture, General Terms
daikagura-zukuri 太神楽造

Also called daikagurabashira 太神楽柱; *kudabashira 管柱 or…

Architecture, General Terms
daiku 大工

Carpenter.

1 Often pronounced daikō. Also ōtakumi or ōkitakumi in old…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
daito 大斗 ✓

The largest type of bearing block *masu 斗, usually placed directly on top of a…

Architecture, General Terms
daito hijiki 大斗肘木 ✓

A large bearing block *daito 大斗 with a bracket arm *…

Architecture, General Terms
daiwa 台輪 ✓

1 A wall plate or top plate placed along the top of head-penetrating tie beams *…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
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.

2 A roofing…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
danmen 断面

Lit. a section. A vertical section scale drawing of a building or architectural detail shown either transversely, …

Architecture, General Terms
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. …

Architecture, General Terms
dashigeta 出桁

1 Also called *gagyō 丸桁 or gangyō. A round-eave purlin…

Architecture, General Terms
de 出

1 Also deha 出端. Any architectural member which protrudes, projects, or extends outward. When…

Architecture, General Terms
deaibuchi 出合縁 ✓

The framing of opaque sliding screens, *fusuma 襖, and translucent sliding…

Architecture, General Terms
degumi 出組 ✓

A one-stepped bracket complex parallel to but separated from the wall by the extension of a rainbow beam, *…

Architecture, General Terms
deha 出端

Also called de 出.

1 Also called *noki-no-de…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
denraihin 伝来品

Lit. things from overseas.

1 Objects brought from abroad, including numerous art works. See *…

Art History, General Terms
denseihin 伝世品

Lit. things from past generations. Art works or antiquities which have been treasured among people for long period of time.…

Art History, General Terms
desumi 出隅 ✓

Also pronounced dezumi. Also written 出角. The external corner where two walls join to form an angle. The interior…

Architecture, General Terms
dōbari 胴張 ✓

Entasis. The bulge in the center of a circular pillar to make it appear straight. In Japan, circular pillars called *…

Architecture, General Terms
dobei 土塀

Also read tsuchibei. Also called *tsuiji 築地. An earthen wall or…

Architecture, General Terms
dodai 土台

A sill, ground sill, or footplate. Generally the heavy timber members laid horizontally at the base of a wooden building…

Architecture, General Terms
dodomezan 土留桟

Also called tsuchidomesan. Narrow timber strips nailed horizontally to roof sheathing, *…

Architecture, General Terms
doibuki 土居葺

1 Generally a base for tile roofing, *kawarabuki 瓦葺. A…

Architecture, General Terms
doinuri 土居塗

The process of spreading clay on the prepared surface of a roof in order to lay roof tiles, *…

Architecture, General Terms
dōjiseki 童子石

Lit. guardian boy's stones. Two symbolic garden stones (see *yakuishi 役石)…

Architecture, General Terms
dokuritsubashira 独立柱

Independent post. An internal freestanding post, *hashira 柱, not attached to…

Architecture, General Terms
dōsan 胴桟

Also written dōzuri 胴摺. The widest horizontal stile in the door of *heijūmon…

Architecture, General Terms
dotome-ita 土留板

Also read dodome-ita, and called *seki-ita 堰板. The sheathing boards…

Architecture, General Terms
dōzashi 胴差

A large, heavy horizontal timber attached to the tops of posts, *hashira 柱,…

Architecture, General Terms
zaimoku 材木 Timber prepared for construction. Architecture, General Terms
zashiki kazari 座敷飾

The *zashiki 座敷 is a guest room; its name deriving from that of the mat…

Architecture, General Terms
Zenshū bijutsu 禅宗美術

The general term used for any art related to the practice of Zen 禅 Buddhism in Japan. Zen flourished in Japan in the…

Art History, General Terms
zenshūyō 禅宗様

A style of architecture imported from China during the Song dynasty. It includes the architectural elements that came with…

Architecture, General Terms
Zenshūyō kōran 禅宗様高欄 ✓

Also called Karayō kōran 唐様高欄. A railing or balustrade *kōran 高欄 with…

Architecture, General Terms
Zenshūyō tokyō 禅宗様斗きょう ✓

Also called Karayō tokyō 唐様斗きょう. A Zen style bracket complex. The bracket arms *…

Architecture, General Terms
zetsu 舌 ✓

Lit. "tongue." A thin ornamental molding *kurigata 繰形, carved on the bottom…

Architecture, General Terms
zōkinzuri 雑巾摺 ✓

Also called hōkizuri 掃摺 or zōkindome 雑巾留. A long thin finishing board, similar to a base board, that is…

Architecture, General Terms
zōsaku 雑作

Also witten 造作.
All non-permanent parts of a Japanese building in contrast to those parts that are permanent and…

Architecture, General Terms
zuan 図案

A rough sketch of a building plan including, floor plans, elevations, the placement of doors and windows, etc.

Architecture, General Terms
zushi 厨子

1 A miniature shrine in which Buddhist images or rolls of sutras kyō 経 are kept. Reliquary…

Architecture, General Terms

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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