| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| ebi-no-koshi 海老の腰 | Also written 蝦の腰 or 蝦腰. A type of decorative molding *kurigata 繰形, used on… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| ebikōryō 海老虹梁 | ✓ | Also written 蝦虹梁. An usually-shaped rainbow tie beam thought to resemble the back of a lobster or shrimp or an s-shape… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| ebisubashira 恵比須柱 | 1 A structural post considered sacred in an Edo period vernacular house *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| ebisudō 夷堂 | A simple structure that was usually erected in the center of a market place to house the deity *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| ebizuka 海老束 | Also written 蝦束; also hinazuka 雛束. A small strut with chamfered corners used between two staggered… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| eburi-ita 柄振板 | ✓ | Also written 絵振板 or 恵振板. A board cut in a decorative shape and attached at a right angle to the projecting end of a… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| eburidai 柄振台 | ✓ | Also written 絵振台. Also called onigawaradai 鬼瓦台, *onidai 鬼台. … |
Architecture, General Terms |
| edazuka 枝束 | Lit. branch strut. Also called hōzue 方杖; hasuzuka 斜束 or nanamezuka 斜め束. Diagonal braces used in… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| edazumi 枝炭 | ✓ | Lit. branch charcoal. A type of charcoal which is both ornamental and easy to ignite, used in either a sunken hearth *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| edogawara 江戸瓦 | An archaic term for tiles of low quality used in Edo (now Tokyo) during the Edo period to roof tenement houses *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| 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 | |
| eitaitō 永代灯 | Also jōyatō 常夜灯. A device to prevent the votive light in a lantern from going out. |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| ekimon 掖門 | ✓ | Also written 腋門, or read *wakimon 脇門. A small gate… |
Architecture, Gates |
| emadō 絵馬堂 | ✓ | Lit. picture horse hall. Also called emaden 絵馬殿; emadokoro 絵馬所 or gakuden 額殿 (frame hall),… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| emyōbuta 慧明蓋 | The domed lid of a tea ceremony kettle with an indentation or depressed area around the knob. Sometimes called a fuji… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| en-ita 縁板 | ✓ | The boards used to make the floor over a veranda framework. There are two common methods: kirime-en 切目縁 and … |
Architecture, General Terms |
| en-nageshi 縁長押 | Also written 椽長押; sometimes called *kirime nageshi 切目長押. A non-… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| En'ya 園冶 | Ch: Yuanye. Lit. garden building. The only extant treatise on classical Chinese garden construction. Written by the… |
Architecture, General Terms, Document | |
| en 縁 | 1 Also *engawa 縁側. A veranda. Formerly, en and … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| enbashira 縁柱 | Also engawabashira 縁側柱. Posts or pillars usually set on the floor boards *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| enchi 園池 | Also written 苑池. Lit. garden pond. The large ponds in gardens of the Nara, Heian, and Kamakura periods. Specifically, the… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| enchūza 円柱座 | Lit. circular pillar seat. A rounded molding carved into the top of a base stone *soseki… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| endō 円堂 | Lit. circular hall. Although the literal meaning of endō is round structure (see *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| engamachi 縁框 | ✓ | A heavy horizontal member attached to the outside of the veranda framework over the veranda struts *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| engatō 円瓦当 | Also called *gatō 瓦当. The circular pendant tiles attached to semi-circular… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| engawa 縁側 | ✓ | Also wirtten 掾側. The area beside or surrounding the straw matted *tatami 畳… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| engetsukyō 円月橋 | ✓ | Lit. full moon bridge. A semi-circular garden bridge that, when reflected in the water below, presents the circular… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| enkazura 縁葛 | The horizontal boards positioned across the front of a veranda on top of the struts *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| enmimi-ita 縁耳板 | ✓ | Lit. veranda ear board. The outermost board on the kure-en 榑縁 type of veranda which has long floor boards running… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| ennuki 縁貫 | A penetrating tie-beam that connects and strengthens the veranda struts *enzuka… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ensaki chōzubachi 縁先手水鉢 | ✓ | Lit. end of the veranda water basin. A type of tall, cylindrical wash basin *… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| enseishukugata chōzubachi 円星宿形手水鉢 | Lit. round star type. A variety of *ensaki chōzubachi 縁先手水鉢, end of… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| enshūgaki 遠州垣 | Lit. Enshū gate. A type of projecting fence *sodegaki 袖垣 featuring upper… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| enshūgata tōrō 遠州形灯籠 | One type of lantern. Generally six-sided with an elongated canopy *kasa 笠 and… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| ensōdoko 円窓床 | ✓ | Also written 円相床; also marumadodoko 丸窓床. A circular window placed in the center of the rear wall of an alcove *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| ensōgaki 円窓垣 | Lit. circular window fence. A common type of projecting fence *sodegaki 袖垣… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| ensōhishi sodegaki 円窓菱袖垣 | Lit. circular window lattice sleeve fence. A type of narrow screen fence *sodegaki… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| ensumigi 縁隅木 | Lit. veranda corner rafter. Also called sumisasu 隅扠首. A brace placed under the outer corners of a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| entsunagi 縁繋 | Also written 椽繋. Short horizontal bearers that join the outer veranda posts *enzuka… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| enza 円座 | 1 A matting made of straw, rushes, sedge, or cattails woven in a spiral pattern that was used for bedding,… |
Architecture, Accessories | |
| enzanseki 遠山石 | Lit. distant mountain stone. The stone in an arrangement placed above or behind artificial mountains *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| enzuka 縁束 | ✓ | Also written entanbashira 縁短柱, also pronounced entsuka. Struts *tsuka… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| eriwa 襟輪 | ✓ | Also called iriwa 入輪. Lit. a collar ring. A collar tenon. It has a step-like piece called a collar, cut on each… |
Architecture, Joints |
| eriwadome 襟輪留 | Also called iriwadome 入輪留 or eridome 襟留. Lit. collar miter. An angle joint *… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| etsuri 桟 | Also read san. Lit. hanging branches. 1 A sheathing made of boards and bamboo woven… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| etsuriana 桟孔 | The holes made in roofing lath to allow rope to be passed through and tied, thus making the lath secure. An example can be… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| etsuridake 桟竹 | Sometimes called *tarukidake 垂木竹: noboridake 昇竹 or sasudake… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| eyō hijiki 絵様肘木 | Bracket arms *hijiki 肘木, that are decorated with *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| eyō 絵様 | 1 A Nara and Heian periods term used to refer to any kind of design, which included a sketch for a statue… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| eyō kurigata 絵様繰形 | Also written 絵様刳形. Low relief carvings which use curved lines. The carvings are found, for example, on nosings *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| eyōjakuri 絵様决 | A low relief architectural decoration carved into beams *hari 梁, nosings… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kabe shitaji 壁下地 | The framework for a mud-plastered wall. It consists of lath, bamboo crosspieces *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kabedoko 壁床 | ✓ | A wall alcove. An alcove that has no recessed space and no appurtenances such as a framing board *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| kabegaki 壁垣 | A generic term for shrine fences *tamagaki 玉垣. A fence built at shrines from… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kabekomai 壁小舞 | ✓ | Also written 壁木舞. Thinly split lath set vertically and horizontally to form the framework *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kabemochi bashira 壁持柱 | Small diameter posts set between two pillars to support horizontal circular laths called kabemawatashi 壁間渡. The… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kaben 花弁 | The band of lotus petals *renji 蓮子 which encircles the seed pod *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| kabeshiro 壁代 | A type of curtain hung from the upper non-penetrating tie beam, uwanageshi (or kaminageshi ) 上長押 in temple… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kabewatadono 壁渡殿 | Lit. walled bridge corridor. An archaic term for a type of corridor that connects two buildings in a Heian period… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kabuki 冠木 | Also 衡木. A horizontal timber, lintel, or crossbar. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kabukimon 冠木門 | ✓ | Also written kōmon 衡門. A roofless gate composed of two square gate posts *… |
Architecture, Gates |
| kabumono 株もの | Lit. stump. The term is used to designate trees which have no trunk but grow so that the branches come directly out of the… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kaburagegyo 蕪懸魚 | ✓ | Lit. turnip bargeboard pendant. A gable pendant *gegyo 懸魚 decorated with… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| kabutomon 兜門 | Lit. helmet gate. A type of front gate in tea gardens *roji 露地 that resembles a… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kadozuka 角束 | A short strut used at the corners of podii *kidan 基壇, or a dais *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kaeribana 反花 | 1 Lotus petal design carved around the lower base kiban 基盤 of a lantern *… |
Architecture, Art History, Sculpture, Lanterns | |
| kaeribanaza 反花座 | Abbreviated to *kaeribana 反花. Also soribana 反り花. A… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kaerumata 蟇股 | ✓ | Frog-leg strut. A strut with legs spread like those of a frog. Kaerumata in the early Nara period developed from an… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kagami-ishi 鏡石 | Lit. mirror stone. |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kagami ita 鏡板 | Boards or panels planed to a perfectly smooth surface and employed for ceilings or flooring. An example is a thin board… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kagami no ma 鏡の間 | Lit. mirror room. A room separated by a curtain from the passageway hashigakari 橋掛り leading to a noh stage *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kagami tenjō 鏡天井 | ✓ | Also kagamiita tenjō 鏡板天井. Lit. mirror ceiling. A flat ceiling made of smoothly planed boards shiraki… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kagamizumi 鏡積み | Lit. mirror piling. A method of masonry used for a stone wall *ishigaki 石垣.… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kagariya 篝屋 | Guardhouses for soldiers placed at street corners in Kyoto and Kamakura during the Kamakura period. The earliest known … |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kagebana sōshoku 懸華装飾 | A festoon. Also fesutun フェストゥーン, hanazuna sōshoku 花網装飾, or sagewa kazari 下げ環飾. A carved or molded… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kagemori 影盛 | ✓ | A plastered roof ornament on storehouses *dozō 土蔵. Located at the ends of… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kagiya 鍵屋 | Lit. key-shaped house. A widely used term for vernacular houses *minka 民家, of… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kagobori 篭彫 | ✓ | Purfled work. Lit. basket carving. A type of decorative wood carving used on beam projections *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kai 階 | Floor or storey, and also a counter for floors in a building. For example, nikai 二階 refers to the second floor or… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kai no kuchitsugi 貝の口継 | ✓ | Lit. shell mouth joint. A straight end-to-end joint *tsugite 継手 used for very… |
Architecture, Joints |
| kaidaka 階高 | The distance from the floor of one story to the floor of the next story. The topmost story is measurement from the floor to… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kaidan'in 戒壇院 | ✓ | A Tendai 天台 sect building that contains an ordination platform used exclusively for the ceremony to impart the Buddhist… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| kaidan 階段 | One or more steps composed of a tread dan ita 段板 or fumi ita 踏板 and a riser *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kaidan 戒壇 | A platform or dais used for the Buddhist ordination ceremony. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kaigata 貝形 | ✓ | 1 A trapezoid. |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kaigata gegyo 貝形懸魚 | ✓ | Also kaigashira gegyo 貝頭懸魚. Lit. shell-head gable pendant. A type of decorative gable pendant *… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| Kaiki 槐記 | The words and deeds of court-noble Konoe Iehiro 近衛家熈 (1667-1736) as collected by his personal physician Yamashina Dōan 山科道安… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kaikō 開口 | Also kaikō ana 開口穴; kaikōbu 開口部. A generic term for an opening made in a wall for a door and window, in… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kaimono 飼物 | Any kind of material used to fill a gap. If the basic material is wood, then wood filler is used. Gaps in stone walls are… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kaiorekugi 貝折釘 | ✓ | Also written 皆折釘. A large, square, angular nail used for wooden or bamboo fences. Its head is bent at right angles but has a… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kairō 回廊 | ✓ | Also written 廻廊; also called bu 廡, sōrō 走廊 or *horō 歩廊. Single-… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| kaisandō 開山堂 | ✓ | A hall that enshrines a statue, portrait or memorial tablet of the founder of a temple or the founder of a particular… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| kaisantō 開山塔 | Lit. founder's pagoda. A rare type of wooden pagoda *hōtō 宝塔, constructed… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kaisho 会所 | 1 A meeting place. Originally specified as a place in a shinden style mansion *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kaitomoshi 掻灯 | Also *tsuridōrō 釣灯籠. Lanterns, usually made of metal, hung in the… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| kaiyūshiki teien 回遊式庭園 | Lit. stroll style garden. A type of garden designed to be entered and enjoyed on foot. Most gardens can be divided either… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kajū 荷重 | Also ni 荷. Lit. load. The downward pressure exerted by the roof structure, purlins, transverse beams, etc. on the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kake domoegawara 掛巴瓦 | Often abbreviated kake domoe 掛巴. The semi-cylindrical eave-end cover tiles, noki kakedomoe marugawara… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| kake karakusagawara 掛唐草瓦 | A common term for the broad, concave eave-end pendant tiles that are placed along the gable overhang *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
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