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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
jihiro 地火炉

Also read jikaro.

1 A hearth *ro 炉 excavated in…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
jimune 地棟

A base ridge.

1 A longitudinal timber plate resting upon the principal transverse roof beams *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jinaimachi 寺内町

Also jinaichō. A type of religious township that developed in the Sengoku period in connection mainly with temples…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jiro 地炉

Also *ro 炉

1 A hearth constructed in an earth…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jishin bansho 自身番所

The office or guardroom provided in each city ward *machi 町, in the city of Edo…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jizaikagi 自在鈎 ✓

A pothook. A device that enables a pot nabe 鍋 or tea kettle tetsubin 鉄瓶 to be suspended over a sunken…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses
jōgo zukuri 漏斗造

Also called jōgomune 漏斗棟. A roof-style found on vernacular houses *minka…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jōi 上居

Also written 常居.

1 A principal everyday living room in traditional vernacular houses *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jōya 上屋

Lit. upper house. Principal part of farmhouse structure. The central portion of the cross-section of the structural frame in…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jōyabashira 上屋柱

1 The posts which support the ends of the principal transverse beams *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jōyageta 上屋桁

The purlins or plates *keta 桁, supported on the main frame posts *…

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