| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| ebisubashira 恵比須柱 | 1 A structural post considered sacred in an Edo period vernacular house *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| edoguro 江戸黒 | ✓ | Lit. Edo black. A black plaster finish applied to the walls of fireproof mud-plastered storehouses *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| edoma 江戸間 | A standard unit of measurement used in Edo and various towns in the Kantō 関東 region. In constructing an ordinary… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| hadakaniwa 裸庭 | Lit. naked or bare yard. A term for the earth-floored area, *doma 土間, in… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| hakokaidan 箱階段 | ✓ | Also referred to as hakodan 箱段 and hakohashigo 箱梯子. A combined stairway and storage chest, common in town… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| hanedashi nikai はね出し二階 | ✓ | A jettied upper floor projecting beyond the plane of the line of posts defining the limit of the lower part of a town house… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| hatagoya 旅籠屋 | Also hatago 旅篭. A common term for an inn from the late Heian to the early modern periods. In the ancient period,… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| heichi jūkyo 平地住居 | A type of house in which the floor is level with the surface of the ground, rather than excavated into it like a pit-… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| henushi 戸主 | 1 Also pronounced koshu. The head of a household, responsible to the state for the behavior of… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| hi-no-mi yagura 火見櫓 | Fire towers. Timber-framed watchtowers erected during the Edo period in large cities to enable fires to be located when they… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| hibukuro-zukuri 火袋造 | A style of living room *chanoma 茶の間, found particularly in the taverns *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| hiroma 広間 | 1 The generic term used for a large room occupying the full cross section of a building in Edo period… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings | |
| hiromagata 広間型 | The name given to a room plan common in vernacular houses *minka … |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| hiroshiki 広敷 | 1 Part of the kitchen and private residential zone of an Edo period daimyō 大名 residence. … |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| honmune-zukuri 本棟造 | ✓ | A style of vernacular house *minka 民家, found in Nagano Prefecture… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| honnikai 本二階 | Lit. true second floor. A full-height upper floor, complete with living and reception rooms *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
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