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| fuebashira 笛柱 | Lit. flute post. The thick post at the right rear corner of a noh stage, *… |
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| Fujiwara jidai 藤原時代 | Fujiwara period. A period of approximately two hundred years corresponding to the Middle Heian period (Heian chūki… |
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| fukioroshi 葺下 | Also written 葺卸. The extension of a roof or the elongation of eaves on the main part of a building in order to cover an… |
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| fukitsuchi 吹土 | The layer of clay spread on sheathing, *shitaji 下地, sometimes called … |
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| fukiyose 吹寄 | 1 The arrangement of muntins, lattice (*fukiyose gōshi… |
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| fukiyose daruki 吹寄垂木 | ✓ | The grouping of two or three parallel rafters placed closely together with a wide space between each group. The spaces… |
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| fukiyose gōshi 吹寄格子 | ✓ | Lit. grouped or varying numbered lattice. Lattice or small beams arranged to form patterns in transoms, *… |
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| fukiyosebashira 吹寄柱 | Evenly spaced pillars or posts that are arranged so that two or more are in line. The amount of the space between the… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| fukubachi 伏鉢 | Also written 覆鉢; also called fukuhatsu ふくはつ. The small inverted bowl-like fixture placed on the box-like cover, *… |
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| fukumi 含 | ✓ | A channel. The part of a bearing block, *masu 斗, that is cut out either as a one-… |
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| fumisagari 踏下 | The distance from the ridge of a roof, *munagi 棟木, to the eave end, *… |
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| fumizura 踏面 | Also called fumi-ita 踏板. The horizontal surface, known as the tread, on steps or stairs. The board, plank, or… |
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| funahijiki 舟肘木 | ✓ | A boat-shaped bracket arm placed directly on top of a pillar to carry a purlin, *gagyō… |
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| funazoko tenjō 舟底天井 | Also called *yakata tenjō 屋形天井, an upside-down houseboat-shaped ceiling. A… |
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| furesumi 振隅 | Refers to the pitch of a roof that is different on the front and back from the pitch of the sides. The hip rafters at the… |
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| furesumigi 振隅木 | A hip rafter, *sumigi 隅木, which cannot bisect the purlins, *… |
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| furiwake 振分 | The center line of a surface that has been divided equally. The line may run vertically or horizontally. This center point… |
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| furoku 不陸 | Lit. not horizontal. A surface which is not flat or horizontal to the ground. | Architecture, General Terms | |
| fuse-zu 伏図 | A framing plan showing the structural arrangement and details of various parts of a building including the floor, ceiling,… |
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| fushin 普請 | Originally, the solicitation of great numbers of people to help construct Zen temple buildings. By the 14th century, … |
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| fushinchō 普請帳 | ✓ | The ledger or account books in which material and labor costs incurred during a construction project were recorded. … |
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| fushoku 腐蝕 | Wood rot. Wood rot can be either dry rot, kanshoku 乾蝕, or wet rot, shisshoku 湿蝕. Wet rot is particularly… |
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| fusuma 襖 | ✓ | An abbreviation for fusumashōji 襖障子, an opaque sliding screen, as distinguished from the translucent screen, *… |
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| futakoshi yane 二腰屋根 | A roof that has two different inclines between the ridge and eave ends. It changes its direction of flow without any… |
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| futanoki 二軒 | ✓ | A double row of rafters, called base rafters and flying rafters, that appears beneath the eaves of a roof. The base rafters… |
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| futate hijiki 二手肘木 | A bracket arm that forms the second outward step of a two-stepped bracket complex. | Architecture, General Terms | |
| futatesakigumi 二手先組 | ✓ | Also called futatesaki tokyō 二手先斗きょう or futatesaki kumimono 二手先組物. A bracket complex composed of two steps… |
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| futatsudo tokyō 二(双)斗斗(きょう) | Also written 双斗斗きょう and pronounced the same way, or these characters can be read narabido tokyō or sōdo tokyō… |
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| hachimaki 鉢巻 | ✓ | The name for a thickly plastered area projecting from the wall below the eaves of a building. Used on storehouses, *… |
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| haegi 延木 | Also haigi. An archaic term for *nodaruki, 野垂木 (a hidden rafter). A… |
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| hafu kojiri 破風木尻 | Also written 破風鐺, hafujiri 破風尻, or hafubana 破風鼻. The lower end of a bargeboard on a hip-and-gable… |
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| hafu ogami 破風拝 | ✓ | Also called hafugashira, 破風頭, or hafu-no-ogami, 破風の拝. The joint between two bargeboards, hafu-ita… |
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| hafu 破風 | Also written 搏風. Also called hafu-ita 破風板. A bargeboard. Straight or curved boards laid flat against the ridge ends… |
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| hafugoshi 破風腰 | The center of a bargeboard, *hafu 破風, which is determined by its length. It… |
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| hagarazai 端柄材 | Also written 羽柄材. Also called hagaramono, 端柄物, 羽柄物; or yamabikizai 山挽材. A general term for trimmed boards… |
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| haibutsu 廃仏 | Lit. abolish Buddha. It was government policy during the early Meiji period to repress Buddhism in favor of Shinto which was… |
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| haichi-zu 配置図 | A layout drawing on a plot plan showing topography in minute detail and the position of buildings within the boundaries of a… |
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| hainobe 配延 | Also hainobi 配延び or nobi 延び. A carpenters' standard term for extensions created by slopes. Example: Where the horizontal… |
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| haiseki 配石 | Lit. stone arrangement. To arrange stones in consideration of their shape, color, and character. |
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| haitsuke daruki 配付垂木 | ✓ | Also sashidaruki 挿垂木 or 指垂木. To join rafters *taruki 垂木 which is… |
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| hajikidake 弾竹 | Also bakuchiku-bashira 爆竹柱. |
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| hakarihijiki 秤肘木 | ✓ | A single bracket arm *hijiki 肘木, which is set into a large bearing block *… |
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| hakkakuotoshi-no-kado 八角落の角 | ✓ | Also yatsunaka-no-korobi 八中の転. The method used to determine the incline of the main posts of a *… |
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| hakomune 箱棟 | A prominent box-like ridge framed in timber astride the apex of a roof. In section it resembles a miniature building with a… |
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| Hakuhō jidai 白鳳時代 | The Hakuhō period (645-710) referred to in recent scholarship as the Late Asuka period, Asuka jidai kōki 飛鳥時代後期.… |
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| hamayuka 浜床 | Also called *chōdai 帳台 in the Heian period.
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| hame-ishi 羽目石 | Also written 嵌石. A stone panel. A component of the formal style podium *danjōzumi… |
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| hame-ita 羽目板 | Also written 嵌板. A wooden panel or board used as wall covering. It may be horizontally or vertically set. The boards may… |
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| han-nageshi 半長押 | ✓ | Lit. half non-penetrating horizontal beam. A non-penetrating beam which is 3/5 the diameter of a building 's main pillar… |
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| hana-akarimado 花明窓 | Also kameimado, *oribemado 織部窓, *… |
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| hana 鼻 | ✓ | Lit. nose. Also called hanasaki 鼻先. The end or tip of a structural member such as a beam, rafter end, ridge end,… |
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| hanagarami 鼻絡 | A relatively small tie beam placed slightly inside and under the eave ends on a board roof. It not only ties the boards… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| hanahijiki 花肘木 | ✓ | Lit. flower bracket arm. A decorative bracket arm *hijiki 肘木 that appeared in… |
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| hanakakushi-ita 鼻隠板 | ✓ | A fascia board. A board nailed flat against the rafter ends, characteristic of the daibutsu style *… |
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| hanamashi 鼻増 | Also sorimashi 反増; terimashi 照増. The gradual increase in height toward the ends of rafters *… |
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| hanamichi 花道 | Lit.flower path. A long elevated walkway on the left side of a *kabuki… |
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| hanamoya 鼻母屋 | Pole plates. Horizontal members that are positioned on the outer end of raking beams *… |
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| hanbashira 半柱 | Lit. half column. Also katabutabashira 片蓋柱 (half-covered pillar). The half visible column on the exterior or… |
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| hanchiku 版築 | Also read banchiku. A method of making the core of a podium *danjōzumi… |
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| hanegi 桔木 | A cantilever. A heavy, rough member used in a hidden roof *noyane … |
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| hanegimakura 桔木枕 | Lit. a cantilever pillow. A transverse beam supported by the eave purlin *dashigeta… |
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| hanegiosae 桔木押 | A beam running at a right angle to the cantilevers *hanegi 桔木, used in a hidden… |
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| hankirizuma-zukuri 半切妻造 | ✓ | Also called hakamagoshi yane 袴腰屋根, or kabutoyane 兜屋根. A style of roof similar to the hipped roof *… |
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| hankōran 半高欄 | A simple style of balustrade placed around a low, step-like veranda *hamayuka… |
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| hanshige daruki 半繁垂木 | The distance between two rafters of this type is equal to the sum of the height of a rafter plus the width of its bottom… |
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| hanshōji 半障子 | A sliding screen made of a light wooden frame covered with translucent paper. It is about 1 m-1.3 m high. 1.3 m hanshōji… |
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| hanshōjibusuma 半障子襖 | Also called han-akarishōji 半明障子. A pair of sliding screens with a lattice frame covered with translucent paper *… |
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| hara 腹 | Lit. belly. The concave underside, of a curved beam, for example, a curved transverse beam *… |
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| harakugi 腹釘 | Nails driven into the sides of a board that is parallel to its edges in order to stabilize it. |
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| hari 梁 | ✓ | A transverse or cross beam positioned at a right angle to a roof ridge. It stretches the width of a building to receive the… |
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| haribasami 梁挟 | Also called haritsunagi 梁繋. Tie beams that run parallel to the roof ridge. One is positioned across the upper… |
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| harichigae tenjō 張違天井 | A ceiling which is embellished with wooden squares of different kinds placed in a checker-board pattern. The ribs of a… |
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| harigumi 梁組 | Also called kōka 構架. The beam system of a roof. |
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| hariita tenjō 張板天井 | A plain board ceiling. When paper or silk are pasted over the ceiling boards for decorative purposes, the ceiling is called… |
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| harima 梁間 | Also referred to as *hariyuki 梁行; also written 張り間.… |
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| hariyuki 梁行 | Transverse beams that run at right angles to lengthwise beams. In Japanese architecture hariyuki usually run the… |
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| hashi 階 | Also read kizahashi, kidahashi. Lit. a step, stair, stairway, staircase. Hashi is used to refer… |
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| hashibami 端喰 | ✓ | Also written hashibame 端嵌. Narrow long strips of wood made to cover the top and bottom of doors composed of several… |
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| hashikakushi 階隠 | 1 A pent roof built above the stairs on one side of the annex tai-no-ya 対の屋 in aristocratic style… |
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| hashikakushi-no-ma 階隠の間 | Also hikakushi-no-ma 日隠の間, hashi-no-ma 階の間, or mihashi-no-ma 御階の間. The space between the posts at… |
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| hashira-ishi 柱石 | Also called *kutsu-ishi 沓石 (boot stone). Lit. post stone. Usually a square foundation… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| hashira 柱 | ✓ | The generic term for any type of pillar, column, post, pier, and strut, the basic members of Japanese timber architecture.… |
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| hashiraban 柱盤 | A pillar base. A long beam which forms the base for pillars or posts in the upper part of a building. |
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| hashirama sōchi 柱間装置 | A generic term in traditional architecture referring to any architectural element with an interior finish found within a bay… |
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| hashirama 柱間 | A bay or span. The distance between pillars, measuring from the center of the pillars. |
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| hashirasuji 柱筋 | The direction of a line of pillars. |
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| hashirayose 柱寄 | An ancient word meaning the same as *hōdate 方立, a vertical member placed on… |
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| hata-ita 鰭板 | Also read hire-ita but this reading is considered to be incorrect according to the Kaokuzakkō 家屋雑考 (… |
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| hatchū-zukuri 八注造 | Also called hakkaku yane 八角屋根. The eight-sided roof of an octagonal hall *… |
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| hayashiza 囃子座 | The place on a noh stage *nōbutai 能舞台 where three or four musicians sit,… |
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| hazama-ishi 狭間石 | 1 Also read sama-ishi. Rough stones placed between pillar base stones when a building is erected… |
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| hegi-ita 枌板 | Also written 剥板; sogi-ita 殺板, 曽木板.
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| Heian jidai 平安時代 | The Heian period (794-1185), during which Heiankyō 平安京 (later, Kyoto) became the political and cultural capital of Japan.… |
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| Heiankyū 平安宮 | Heian Imperial Palace, located in the northern part of the Heian Capital. Enclosed by clay walls, buildings included the… |
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| heijiku 幣軸 | ✓ | Also hezuke or henzuke 辺付. Thought to be a corruption of a term used in Shōsōin documents Shōsōin… |
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| heikō daruki 平行垂木 | ✓ | Rafters laid parallel to each other from the ridge almost to the eave ends. When parallel rafters reach the corner of the… |
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| heimen-zu 平面図 | 1 Also *fuse-zu 伏図. The two-dimensional drawing of… |
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| hekitai 壁体 | Also written 壁體. The material from which a wall is made, excluding any added exterior veneer or covering. It can also mean… |
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| hennen 編年 | The arrangement of things (buildings, temples, paintings, sculptures, etc.) chronologically according to historical period… |
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| henzai 辺材 | ✓ | Also called shirata 白太. Sapwood. The part of a tree trunk miki 幹 that is just beneath the bark juhi… |
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