| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| fudegaeshi 筆返し | ✓ | A curved wooden border attached to the end of a desk or shelf to prevent brushes and scrolls from rolling off. It is also… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings |
| Fudōdō 不動堂 | A hall in a Buddhist temple dedicated to the deity *Fudō Myōō 不動明王 (Sk:… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| fuebashira 笛柱 | Lit. flute post. The thick post at the right rear corner of a noh stage, *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| fugendō 普賢堂 | ✓ | Also called Shigatsudō 四月堂; *Sanmaidō 三昧堂. A Buddhist temple in which the main deity… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| fujigata chōzubachi 富士形手水鉢 | ✓ | Lit. Fuji shape. A common type of *shizenseki chōzubachi 自然石手水鉢,… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| fukasanjō 深三畳 | Also fukasanjō-no-seki 深三畳席. A tea ceremony room of three mats. One of the mats is about one quarter normal size,… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| fukiashi 葺足 | ✓ | The length of the visible surface of an ordinary broad, concave roofing tile, *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| fukikaeshi 吹返 | 1 Also written 葺返. A board which projects diagonally out from the top of a statue canopy, *… |
Architecture, Accessories, Sculpture, Art History | |
| fukinukimon 吹貫門 | A gate without doors. It may be a roofed opening in a fence or wall, but no gate leaves are hung on the structure. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| fukitsuchi 吹土 | The layer of clay spread on sheathing, *shitaji 下地, sometimes called … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| fukiyose 吹寄 | 1 The arrangement of muntins, lattice (*fukiyose gōshi… |
Art History, General Terms, Sculpture, Architecture | |
| 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… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| fukiyose gōshi 吹寄格子 | ✓ | Lit. grouped or varying numbered lattice. Lattice or small beams arranged to form patterns in transoms, *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| 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, *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| fukuben 複弁 | A motif which consists of a double-stylized lotus petal with a leaf seedling in each petal. Found on the pendant, *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| fukuben rengemon 複弁蓮華文 | ✓ | Also written 複弁蓮花文. A double-lotus-petal motif applied to the pendant tiles, *gatō… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| fukugō tenshu 複合天守 | ✓ | Also fukugōshiki tenshu 複合式天守. A large tower, *daitenshu 大天守, with… |
Architecture, Castles |
| fukumi 含 | ✓ | A channel. The part of a bearing block, *masu 斗, that is cut out either as a one-… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| fukurin 覆輪 | 1 Parallel lines used to mark outlines in a painting or sculpture. |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| fukurō 複廊 | ✓ | A double corridor that was two bays, *ken 間, wide. Window frames with vertical… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| fukurodana 袋棚 | Also fukurotodana 袋戸棚 or tenbukuro 天袋. Lit. enclosed shelf. |
Architecture, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings | |
| fukurodoko 袋床 | Lit. pouch or pocket alcove. An alcove, *tokonoma 床の間, characterized by a… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| fukurokakekugi 袋掛釘 | Lit. bag-hanging nail. A bamboo or iron nail inserted into the middle post, *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| fukusa 袱紗 | Also chabukusa 茶袱紗. A thick silk cloth used by the host at a tea ceremony to wipe tea bowls, *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| fumi-ishi 踏石 | ✓ | Lit. stepping stone. The stone placed directly under the crawl door entrance, *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| fumichidana 文道棚 | A very simple type of shelving with sliding doors at floor level. Typically, the shelving is part of the many different… |
Architecture, Accessories | |
| fumikomi-datami 踏込畳 | A straw mat, *tatami 畳, which is placed adjacent to the door from which the… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| fumikomidoko 踏込床 | ✓ | Also fungomidoko ふんごみ床. An alcove, *tokonoma 床の間, with a board floor… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| fuminugiishi 踏脱石 | Lit. one of the trump stones, *yaku-ishi 役石, at the guest's entrance to the… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| fumisagari 踏下 | The distance from the ridge of a roof, *munagi 棟木, to the eave end, *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| fumiwake-ishi 踏分石 | ✓ | Lit. path-dividing stone. A type of trump stone, *yaku-ishi 役石. A stepping… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| fumizura 踏面 | Also called fumi-ita 踏板. The horizontal surface, known as the tread, on steps or stairs. The board, plank, or… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| funagata chōzubachi 舟形手水鉢 | ✓ | Lit. boat shape. A type of functional or decorative water basin, *chōzubachi… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| funahijiki 舟肘木 | ✓ | A boat-shaped bracket arm placed directly on top of a pillar to carry a purlin, *gagyō… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| funatsukiishi 舟着石 | Lit. A boat-landing stone. A large, flat stone used as a kind of dock in large pond gardens where boating took place. Even… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| funazoko tenjō 舟底天井 | Also called *yakata tenjō 屋形天井, an upside-down houseboat-shaped ceiling. A… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| furesumigi 振隅木 | A hip rafter, *sumigi 隅木, which cannot bisect the purlins, *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| furiwake 振分 | The center line of a surface that has been divided equally. The line may run vertically or horizontally. This center point… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| furo 風炉 | ✓ | A portable brazier used in the spring and summer seasons when the hearth or fire-box, *ro… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| furoku 不陸 | Lit. not horizontal. A surface which is not flat or horizontal to the ground. | Architecture, General Terms | |
| furosaki byōbu 風炉先屏風 | Sometimes abbreviated to furosaki 風炉先. A partition used in a tea ceremony room *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| furosakimado 風炉先窓 | Lit. window in front of stove. A window opened in the wall by the host's mat, *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| fusa 総 | Also written 房. |
Architecture, Accessories | |
| fusahikite 総引手 | Tassels attached to the pull, *hikite 引手, of an opaque sliding screen, *… |
Architecture, Accessories | |
| fuse-zu 伏図 | A framing plan showing the structural arrangement and details of various parts of a building including the floor, ceiling,… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| fusegawara 伏瓦 | Also called *ogawara 男瓦 (male tile). |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| fusen 布泉 | An abbreviation of fusen no chōzubachi 布泉の手水鉢. A type of water basin, *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| fushin 普請 | Originally, the solicitation of great numbers of people to help construct Zen temple buildings. By the 14th century, … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| fushinchō 普請帳 | ✓ | The ledger or account books in which material and labor costs incurred during a construction project were recorded. … |
Architecture, General Terms |
| 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… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| fusuma 襖 | ✓ | An abbreviation for fusumashōji 襖障子, an opaque sliding screen, as distinguished from the translucent screen, *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| fusumagawara 伏間瓦 | Also written 衾瓦; also called *kanmurigawara 冠瓦 or *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| fūsuryō 副寺寮 | Also called fūsu 副寺. An administrative office often found in part of a Zen temple kitchen, *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| futaebei 二重塀 | Also called taikobei 太鼓塀 or drum wall. A double castle wall that consisted of two separate walls between which… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| futamune-zukuri 二棟造り | Alternatively known as futatsuie 二つ家. A style of vernacular house, *minka… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| futamunerō 二棟廊 | A long, wide, double-bay corridor with an open ceiling, *keshō yaneura… |
Architecture, Buildings | |
| 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… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| futaoki 蓋置 | ✓ | A stand, made of ceramic, bamboo, or metal, on which the lid of a tea ceremony kettle is placed. When the cover is placed on… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| 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… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| 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… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| naga-ita 長板 | Lit. "a long board."
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Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| naga-itabuki 長板葺 | 1 An early term for long boards used on roofs. Records dating from the 8th century first used the terms… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nagakikkō 長亀甲 | An elongated hexagon or a decorative pattern consisting of a series of elongated hexagon shapes. |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| nagamarugawara 長丸瓦 | Longer than standard semi-cylindrical roof tiles used as coping tiles *kasagawara… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| nagare 流 | Lit. "flowing." |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nagare-zukuri 流造 | ✓ | Also nagare hafu-zukuri 流破風造. A widely used style of main sanctuary *… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| nagarehozo 流ほぞ | ✓ | A sloped tenon, which is cut into the end of a beam. The top of the tenon is flush with the top surface of the beam. The… |
Architecture, Joints |
| nagashi 流し | 1 A sink used for washing food before its preparation, for washing utensils after a meal, or for washing… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| nagate 長手 | The long side of a timber, or a timber placed in a lengthwise direction. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nagatoko 長床 | A room at Kumano Jinja 熊野神社, in Fukushima Prefecture, which is similar to a worshipper's hall *… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| nagaya 長屋 | Longhouse, or row house. A house with a long ridge. Also indicates a house with a number of residences connected under a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nagayamono 長屋物 | The smallest of three standard sizes of roof tiles yanegawara 屋根瓦, used during the 17th-19th century. The… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| Nageiredō 投入堂 | ✓ | Also once known as Zaōdō 蔵王堂. The Nageiredō is a small building, constructed in the overhang style kake-zukuri 懸造,… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| nagekakebari 投掛梁 | ✓ | A transverse beam *hari 梁 made in two sections and coupled by a stub-tenon-… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| nageshi 長押 | ✓ | Non-penetrating tie beams that are made to fit around pillars *hashira 柱 of… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| nageshibiki 長押挽 | A long rectangular beam cut along a diagonal cross-section and used as a non-penetrating tie *nageshi… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nagimayu 薙眉 | Also called naginata mayu 薙刀眉 or 長刀眉. A type of carved molding *kurigata… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| naginatazori 長刀反 | A sudden strong, upward curve at the corner ends of eaves. Especially characteristic of the Zen style *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| naidō 内堂 | Buddhist priests' living quarters. Higher-ranking priests had two rooms one behind the other. The inner room was called the… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| naiheki 内壁 | 1 An interior wall partition. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| naijimon 内侍門 | Also read naishimon. Traditionally, the timbergate through which virgin attendants entered a shrine. Structurally,… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| naijin 内陣 | ✓ | The inner sanctum located in the main halls *kondō 金堂 or *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| naijinbashira 内陣柱 | ✓ | Also called moyabashira 母屋柱; irikawabashira入側柱. The pillars placed on the boundary between, or slightly… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| naijō 内城 | The innermost compound *kuruwa 郭 of a castle. Sometimes called *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| naiku 内区 | ✓ | The inner section of the pendant *gatō 瓦当, attached to a semi-… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| Naikūgen torii 内宮源鳥居 | Small entrance-gates at Yoshida Jinja 吉田神社 in Kyoto. They are located in front of two small shrines behind the octagonal… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| nainaijin 内内陣 | 1 A miniature shrine within the sanctuary of a Shinto shrine. |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| naka-ita 中板 | A board which is inserted between the host's mat *temaedatami 点前畳 and the… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| naka-no-kuchi 中の口 | 1 A semi-formal entrance to Honmaru Goten 本丸御殿, the main palace in Edo-jō 江戸城. It was situated at the east… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Naka-no-Mibumon 中の壬生門 | According to the Shokunihongi 続日本紀, a gate leading to the waiting area for all officials, chōshūden… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| naka-no-to 中の戸 | 1 A generic term for a door connecting two areas of a structure.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| nakabachi-no-tsukubai 中鉢の蹲踞 | A garden wash-basin set characterized by the use of gravel surrounding it. The gravel allows the water from hand washing to… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| nakabashira 中柱 | 1 Also *daimebashira 台目柱. A small pillar which stands at… |
Architecture, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings | |
| nakado 中戸 | ✓ | A pair of sliding doors *hikichigai 引違, separating the front… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| nakadoi 中樋 | ✓ | A rain gutter placed at the bottom point where two roofs meet. Similar to *narabidō 双堂… |
Architecture, General Terms |
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