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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
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
yatoi-ari 雇蟻

A right-angled joint with a dovetail spline tenon *hozo ほぞ that resembles a…

Architecture, Joints
yatoihozo 雇ほぞ

Also called sashiki 差木, yatoiki 雇木, or machihozo 待ほぞ.

1 A spline tenon. A…

Architecture, Joints
yonmaihozo 四枚ほぞ ✓ The four tenons cut into the crosscut of a beam. Quadruple tenons. The same principle is used in making double tenons *… Architecture, Joints
yose-ari hikidokko 寄蟻引独鈷

A right angle joint used to attach a horizontal member to a pillar. It combines a type of dovetail joint *…

Architecture, Joints
yose-ari 寄蟻

Also called okuri-ari 送蟻. A right angle joint *shiguchi 仕口 used to…

Architecture, Joints
yotsutome 四留

Also pronounced yotsudome. An angled joint *shiguchi 仕口, composed of…

Architecture, Joints

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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