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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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| mabara mairado 疎舞良戸 | A plank door filled with widely set, horizontal laths, kozan 小桟. |
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| mabarawari 疎割 | Also abarawari あばら割. Lit. "sparsely proportioned." The same meaning as ma-mabara 間疎 (sparse or scanty).… |
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| mabashira 間柱 | 1 Posts or pillars of the same or smaller diameter than the main pillars of a building. |
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| mabiro 間広 | Translucent sliding screens *shōji 障子, opaque screens *… |
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| machi 町 | Also pronounced chō. |
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| mado 窓 | Window. Many other characters for window used have been used since the 6th century. For example: 窗 and 牒, 向 and 間戸 or 間門.… |
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| madodai 窓台 | ✓ | A window sill. The horizontal part at the bottom of a window frame in a wooden building. The sill is supported by the base… |
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| madogamachi 窓框 | The window frame into which a window sash is installed. The timber that surrounds a window. |
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| madonageshi 窓長押 | The non-penetrating tie beams used for the frame of a window opening. One, called madoshita nageshi 窓下長押, is placed… |
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| madori 間取 | A floor plan. The arrangement of rooms in a dwelling, including access points, windows, hallways, verandas, toilets, and… |
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| madowakibashira 窓脇柱 | Posts placed on each side of a window. In the case of thatched tea ceremony houses *… |
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| madowaku 窓枠 | ✓ | A window frame into which a window sash or casing is set. The frame consists of two vertical side pieces, tatewaku… |
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| mae-nagare 前流 | The front gable of a gable roof that flows directly away from the ridge and extends further than the rear gable. The long… |
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| maezutsumi 前包 | ✓ | A transverse timber positioned at the base of the latticework *kitsune gōshi… |
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| magaki 籬 | Latticework or a grille *kōshi 格子 positioned between the hard-packed earthen… |
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| magane 真矩 | Lit. "a true carpenter's square." A right angle or a 90 degree angle. A structural element that corresponds to a right angle… |
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| magobisashi 孫廂 | Also 孫庇; matabisashi 又庇, 又廂. Lit. "grandchild aisle." A narrow additional aisle. Traditional buildings, especially… |
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| magoshōji 孫障子 | ✓ | A small section within a translucent sliding screen *shōji 障子 that can be opened… |
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| magozuka 孫束 | ✓ | Also called kozuka 小束. A very short strut or post used in a roof truss. Magozuka are the shortest struts… |
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| maguchi 間口 | 1 The length of the front facade of a building or frontage of a plot of land from corner to corner. … |
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| magusa まぐさ | ✓ | Lintel, header or head jamb. Also magosa まごさ. A lintel without grooves or tracks, placed horizontally at the top of… |
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| mairado 舞良戸 | ✓ | A wooden sliding door constructed of a single wooden panel *wata-ita… |
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| mairako 舞良子 | ✓ | Thin, parallel strips of wood about 2-3 cm wide and 1.8 cm thick affixed to the front and back of a door *… |
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| majikiri 間仕切 | A partition. The partitioning or dividing of an interior or an individual room into separate spaces, allowing for tremendous… |
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| makibashira 巻柱 | Pillars that are decorated with ornamental bands. The bands may be made of metal, painted with lacquer or covered with… |
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| makito 巻斗 | ✓ | Small, square, or slightly rectangular bearing blocks placed on a bracket arm *hijiki… |
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| makura 枕 | 1 A wedge-shaped piece of wood used to join structural members. |
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| makurasabaki 枕捌 | ✓ | Also called makurabasami 枕挟 or makurabakama 枕袴. The non-penetrating tie beams *… |
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| manakado 間中戸 | Lit. "a half door." Also called hantobira 半扉 or hando 半戸, both meaning a half door. A low door, about one… |
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| maneki-zukuri 招造 | A style of gable roof, manekiyane 招屋根, in which one side is a standard normal length from ridge to eave ends and… |
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| manekihafu 招破風 | An arrangement of bargeboards *hafu 破風 on a gable roof *… |
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| manekihijiki 招肘木 | Also called *nehijiki 根肘木. Bracket arms used to support the shorter side… |
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| manekimune 招棟 | A descending corner ridge that connects the main ridge with a lower main ridge. This corner ridge, also known as … |
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| manekinoki 招軒 | The shorter eave on the rear section of a gable roof. The shrine style *nagare-… |
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| manekiudegi 招腕木 | Braces that extend outward from the central posts to support the eave end *manekinoki … |
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| mangetsudana 満月棚 | Lit. "full moon shelf." A type of shelving *chigaidana 違い棚,… |
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| manjikuzushi kumiko 万字崩組子 | ✓ | Mullions *kumiko 組子 in a decorative pattern of connected,… |
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| manjūgata 饅頭形 | Lit. "a bean-jam dumpling shape." Also called hanjukei 半珠形. A half-spherical shape. |
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| marubashira 丸柱 | Also called enchū 円柱. |
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| marumado 円窓 | ✓ | Also written 丸窓, also called yoshinomado 吉野窓. A window which is circular or a circular window with a flat… |
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| marumen 丸面 | ✓ | Also written 円面. A type of chamfer with rounded edges or corners, for example, on an otherwise square post. To produce this… |
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| maruta 丸太 | A log or pole. Some scholars believe that this term replaced maruhada 丸肌 (log skin). A generic term for a log,… |
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| marutabashira 丸太柱 | A post made from a log, that has either the bark remaining or its bark stripped off but is not pared off smoothly. |
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| maruzuka 丸束 | Cylindrical struts. One example is a bottle strut *taiheizuka 大瓶束, used… |
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| masame 柾目 | Straight grain. The grain that runs parallel to the growth of the tree or at right angle to the tree rings. The quality of… |
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| mashi 増 | A gradual increase in the height of such structural members as rafters *taruki… |
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| masu 斗 | Also read to, sometimes written 枡. A box for measuring. |
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| masu-ishi 桝石 | Stones cut into a cube or close to a perfect cube. Shaped like the square wooden measuring device *masu… |
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| masugumi 斗組 | Also pronounced togumi, sometimes written 枡組. Synonyms are *tokyō … |
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| masumi 真隅 | A right angle bisected exactly; for example, a hip rafter that bisects the corner framework forming a 45 degree angle on… |
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| mawaribuchi 回縁 | Also written 廻縁. A long edging board or finishing board that covers the junction point of a wall and ceiling. The finishing… |
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| mawashijiki 回敷 | ✓ | Also called oimawashijiki 追回敷. The placement of straw mats *tatami 畳,… |
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| mawatashidake 間渡竹 | Also called mawatashi 間渡. Horizontal strips of split or whole bamboo or other type of wood that extend between the… |
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| me-ita 目板 | ✓ | Sometimes called itabuki me-ita 板葺目板. Narrow boards or panel strips nailed over the joints of adjacent boards. When… |
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| mebari 女梁 | ✓ | Also called meutsubari めうつ梁. The lower and shorter of two transverse members at right angles to the lintel *… |
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| medō 馬道 | ✓ | A roofed passageway that runs from front to back in a long building. One example separates the *… |
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| meibutsu 名物 | Lit. "famous thing." Term applied to items of tea ceremony *chanoyu 茶湯… |
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| mekakushibei 目隠塀 | Also mikakushibei 見隠塀. From mekakushi or mikakushi. Lit. "fence hidden from the eyes or… |
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| mekasugai 目鎹 | ✓ | A type of iron clamp 8 to 15 cm long that allows a top framing beam *uchinorinuki… |
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| mekura renji 盲連子 | ✓ | Blind mullions. Mullions that are set so closely together that what is behind them cannot be seen. Some blind mullions are… |
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| mekurameji 盲目地 | Also called nemurimeji 眠目地. A butt or closed joint, where pavement stones abut so seamlessly that they appear to be… |
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| men-ita 綿板 | Also written 面板. The flat faces of a board. The flat faces of the boards between the narrow horizontal strips *… |
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| men 面 | ✓ | Also read as tsura, which means the surface or face of a structural member. |
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| mendo 面戸 | Possibly a corruption of medo 目処. A gap between two things. A board used to cover or fill a gap is called mendo… |
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| menkawabashira 面皮柱 | Also menkawa 面皮. A pillar or post *hashira 柱, rafter *… |
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| menkuri 面繰 | The curved base of a bearing block. |
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| mentori 面取 | Also pronounced mendori. The chamfered or beveled edge of a pillar, post, piece of furniture, piece of latticework… |
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| mentoribashira 面取柱 | A square post or pillar with chamfered corners. |
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| meotomado 夫婦窓 | Lit. "husband and wife windows"; double windows. A type of window used in a tea ceremony house *… |
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| meshiawase 召合 | ✓ | The meeting of two structural elements that butt together. Examples include sliding doors *… |
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| mesukido 目透戸 | ✓ | Lit. "eye-gap door." A simple informal door that is composed of horizontal lattice yokogōshi 横格子 set fairly widely… |
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| metsukebashira 目付柱 | Lit. "eye-fastening post." Also mitsukibashira 見付柱; sumibashira 隅柱. A guide post. The corner post at the… |
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