| 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 | |
| ō-ita 大板 | ✓ | A board which is placed on the host's mat *temaedatami 点前畳,… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| ō-itabuki 大板葺 | Large wooden shingles which are about 30 cm wide and are laid from the ridge to the eaves. Where the shingles need to be… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ōatsuzai 応圧材 | A load-bearing structural member. Refers to any structural element which supports the roof including pillars *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ōbaku kenchiku 黄檗建築 | Architecture introduced at temples of the Ōbaku 黄檗 sect, in the Edo period. This sect is one of the three Zen 禅 sects. The… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| ōbaku tenjō 黄檗天井 | ✓ | Also called wadaruki 輪垂木. An open ceiling found in Buddhist temples of the Ōbaku 黄檗 sect. The architectural style… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| obido 帯戸 | ✓ | Also called obisando 帯桟戸. A simple wooden door made of thin boards with rails at top and bottom and stiles, left… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| obiguruwa 帯郭 | Lit. "belt compound." A long narrow castle compound. Obiguruwa were often constructed on the top of an earthen… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| ōbiki 大引 | ✓ | Also obiki 尾引. Sleepers about 10 cm sq. that extend horizontally at right angle to posts that are erected on a sill… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| ochi-en 落縁 | ✓ | A outer veranda constructed a step lower than the adjacent floor. It may also be constructed one step lower than a broad… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| ochi-ishi 落石 | Lit. "falling stone." Also pronounced otoshi-ishi. One of the trump stones *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| ochigakari 落掛 | The junction point of a horizontal and diagonal structural member. For example, the point where the bottom of the hip rafter… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ochima 落間 | Also kiriotoshi 切落. |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| ochimune-zukuri 落棟造 | A design incorporating a projection from a major building with a roof ridge *mune… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| ochitenjō 落天井 | ✓ | Lit. "dropped ceiling." Also called otoshitenjō 落し天井. A ceiling in a tea ceremony room above the host's mat *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| odaruki 尾垂木 | ✓ | A tail rafter. A large rafter which usually extends through the second step of a 3-stepped bracket complex *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| odawarabuki 小田原葺 | Also called da-itabuki 駄板葺. A shingled roof which has bamboo battens and or stones to hold the shingles in place.… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ōdo 大戸 | ✓ | 1 Lit. "great door." Also called *ōdoguchi 大戸口. The door… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| ōdoguchi 大戸口 | 1 The main entrance to traditional vernacular houses *minka 民家… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| oga 大鋸 | Also pronounced ōga. A ripsaw thought to have been introduced to Japan from China at the beginning of the 15th… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| ōgaki 大垣 | Lit. "big fence." Large, continuous fences in distinction to short screen fences *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| ogami 拝 | Lit. "praying." |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ogami karakusagawara 拝唐草瓦 | ✓ | The roof tiles positioned like hands joined in prayer covering the triangular framework of a Japanese roof structure. Broad… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| ogamidomoe 拝巴 | A peak tile. A semi-cylindrical, elongated, barrel-shaped, hanging tile which covers the broad, concave, eave-end tiles *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| ogawara 男瓦 | ✓ | Lit. "male tile." Also written 雄瓦, called *fusegawara 伏瓦, tsutsugawara… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| ogawara 男瓦 | Lit. "male tile." A semi-cylindrical cover tile *marugawara … |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| ōgi-no-kōbai 扇の勾配 | ✓ | Lit. "fan slope." Also ōgikōbai 扇勾配 or miyakōbai 宮勾配 (shrine slope). The concave pitch of a stone… |
Architecture, Castles |
| ōgi-no-nawa 扇の縄 | Also written 扇子の縄. A castle plan shaped like a folding fan wherein the fortifications are distributed on either side of the… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| ōgidaruki 扇垂木 | ✓ | Fan rafters. There are two arrangements: those that radiate from a center point on each side of the building; or those that… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| oigata mon'yō 笈形文様 | A pattern drawn on a wall on both sides of a type of post called *kentozuka… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| oigata taiheizuka 笈形大瓶束 | ✓ | A bottle strut *taiheizuka 大瓶束, with a sculptural decoration called … |
Architecture, General Terms |
| ōire ariotoshi 大入蟻落 | ✓ | Also called kageire ariotoshi 陰入蟻落; ōire arikake 大入蟻掛. A joint made to connect a purlin *… |
Architecture, Joints |
| ōire 大入 | ✓ | Also written 追入 or 尾入. A dadoed or housed, angled T-joint, which is used to join beams to posts. A shallow square or… |
Architecture, Joints |
| ōji-zukuri 王子造 | Also written 皇子造. A style of construction used for a Shinto shrine sanctuary *honden… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| ōkabe 大壁 | A wall which is completely plastered so that the pillars or posts are not visible. This method is common for the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ōkabe-zukuri 大壁造 | ✓ | 1 A style or method of constructing a wall, in which the basic framework for plastering is made on the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| okajō 丘城 | Lit. "hillcastle." Also termed kyūryō jōkaku 丘陵城郭. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| Ōkakudai 黄鶴台 | A sukiya style *sukiya-zukuri 数寄屋造 bathhouse, yokushitsu… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| okamabashira 御竃柱 | Also written 御釜柱. A pillar which is erected opposite the main central support pillar *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| okami 御上 | 1 A room that abutted the earth-floored area *doma 土間, at its… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| Okazarisho 御飾書 | Shogun Ashikaga's 足利 book of tea ceremony implement arrangement, thought to have been written by Sōami 相阿弥 (1455-1525), a… |
Architecture, General Terms, Document | |
| okiawase 置合 | The arrangement of tea ceremony utensils in preparation for a tea ceremony. It is more rarely called okitsuke 置付.… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| okidoko 置床 | Also *tsukedoko 付床. An early type of removable alcove formed by placing a… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| okidōrō 沖灯籠 | ✓ | A lantern placed in the water or near the water's edge. These can be clearly viewed from rocks or a boat, and boats use them… |
Architecture, Lanterns |
| okigata 置形 | The part of a ceramic tea bowl decorated with pattern. When used in a tea ceremony, the okigata is positioned… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| okiro 置炉 | ✓ | A portable brazier used for a tea ceremony. It is usually 42 cm square with a height ranging from 21-24 cm. The hearth bed… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| okiya 置屋 | The houses of procurers keeping teams of yūjo 遊女, female entertainers and prostitutes in the authorised pleasure… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| okiyane 置屋根 | ✓ | The upper roof erected over storehouses, kura 倉, of the *dozō … |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| okkake daisentsugi 追掛大栓継 | ✓ | An oblique, housed (dadoed) and rabbeted scarf joint. The upper and lower pieces are exactly the same but reversed. The… |
Architecture, Joints |
Displaying 1 - 100 of 170