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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… |
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, *… |
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| fukumi 含 | ✓ | A channel. The part of a bearing block, *masu 斗, that is cut out either as a one-… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| 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. … |
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… |
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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… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| 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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| 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… |
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| nagare 流 | Lit. "flowing." |
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| nagate 長手 | The long side of a timber, or a timber placed in a lengthwise direction. |
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| 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… |
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| nagekakebari 投掛梁 | ✓ | A transverse beam *hari 梁 made in two sections and coupled by a stub-tenon-… |
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| nageshi 長押 | ✓ | Non-penetrating tie beams that are made to fit around pillars *hashira 柱 of… |
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| nageshibiki 長押挽 | A long rectangular beam cut along a diagonal cross-section and used as a non-penetrating tie *nageshi… |
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| naginatazori 長刀反 | A sudden strong, upward curve at the corner ends of eaves. Especially characteristic of the Zen style *… |
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| naiheki 内壁 | 1 An interior wall partition. |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| naka-no-to 中の戸 | 1 A generic term for a door connecting two areas of a structure.
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| nakadoi 中樋 | ✓ | A rain gutter placed at the bottom point where two roofs meet. Similar to *narabidō 双堂… |
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| nakagamachi 中框 | Also called nakazan 中桟. A middle rail. A horizontal rail or rails inserted into stiles tategamachi 竪框 and… |
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| nakahōdate 中方立 | A vertical, finishing strip of wood placed between the threshold *shikii 敷居 and… |
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| nakai 中居 | 1 A private service-oriented room in the mansions of aristocrats, warriors, retired emperors, abbots and… |
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| nakako 中子 | ✓ | Also called sakuko 柵子, kakusaku 角柵, marutazaku 丸太柵. The stakes used to support the fencing set in… |
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| nakanuri 中塗り | ✓ | Also called chūgomi 中込, nakazuke or chūzuke 中付. A middle layer of plaster applied between the… |
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| nakaore 中折 | An architectural element that is bent or has a concave mid-point. A diagonal brace, for example, if less than 90 cm wide,… |
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| nakashikii 中敷居 | Also read chūjikii. Lit. "middle sill." A sill on a shelf that divides a closet into two parts, lower and upper.… |
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| nakasukido 中透戸 | Also called nakashōji 中障子, yoshiwara shōji 吉原障子, takeshōji 竹障子, nakanukido 中抜戸 and … |
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| nakatatezan 中竪桟 | Also written 中縦桟. A vertical stile placed at the mid-point of a paneled door. A centrally placed horizontal stile is called… |
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| nakatsubo 中坪 | Also written 中壷. The inner court between shop and living quarters in a merchant's house in the Edo period. |
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| nakazonae 中備 | ✓ | Also written 中具. Secondary or intermediate supports placed in the interstices between the bracket complexes *… |
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| nakazuka 中束 | ✓ | A generic term for struts *tsuka 束 that are set at the mid-point between two… |
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| namigata renji 波型連子 | Also namirenji 波連子, yumirenji 弓連子, tatewaki renji 立涌連子. A type of latticework renji… |
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| nanban-e 南蛮絵 | Western painting brought by the Portuguese and Spanish who arrived in Japan in the 16th century, nanban bijutsu… |
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| nanban 南蛮 | Lit. "Southern barbarian art." Considered to be the first manifestation of direct Western influence on Japanese culture,… |
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| Nanbokuchō jidai 南北朝時代 | The Southern and Northern Court period (1336-92). It takes its name from two separate antagonistic Imperial courts supported… |
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| nando 納戸 | 1 A store room in which clothes and valuables could be kept in the houses of the civil, ecclesiastical and… |
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| Nara jidai 奈良時代 | The Nara period (645-794). In 645 a coup to restore Imperial authority was carried out by Prince Naka no Ōe 中大兄 (later,… |
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| natsushōji 夏障子 | ✓ | Also sudare shōji 簾障子. Sliding screens *shōji 障子, that are… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| nawakakenuki 縄掛貫 | Also called nawakakesan or nawakakezan 縄掛桟, also pronounced nawakakezan. Lit. "rope-hanging beam… |
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| nayotake 弱竹 | Also called medake 女竹; ganchiku 含竹, shinobedake しのべ竹 or naedake 苗竹. Thin bamboo… |
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| ne-ishi 根石 | Lit. "root stone." |
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| neda 根太 | ✓ | A floor joist. A horizontal structural member made of cypress, cedar or pine, laid on a sleeper *… |
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| neda tenjō 根太天井 | ✓ | A ceiling made over the first floor of a two story building. The ceiling has joists above it which form the structural base… |
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| nedauke 根太受 | Horizontal supports which receive floor joists. Also called *ōbiki 大引. |
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| nehijiki 根肘木 | ✓ | Also called *manekihijiki 招肘木. A small bracket arm, a… |
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| nekase 根械 | Lit. "root fetters." Also called umekasenuki 埋械貫, nekasenuki 根械貫, negaraminuki 根がらみ貫. Large flat… |
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| nekoma shōji 猫間障子 | Also *magoshōji 孫障子. A small sliding panel set within a standard… |
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| nekousu 猫臼 | Also nekoza 猫座; nekogi 猫木. A short piece of wood projecting from the upper part of a pillar or from the… |
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| nemaki 根巻 | Also nezutsumi 根包. A wrap made of spaced wooden slats bound together with rope or metal strips, ornamented metal… |
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| nengō 年号 | Era name. The practice of naming eras originated in China when the first era name, Jian wu (Jp: Kengen 建元), was given to the… |
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| nenjibutsu 念持仏 | Also jibutsu 持仏 and uchibotoke 内仏. A Buddhist image which is kept at close proximity for personal daily… |
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| nenki 年記 | The date of production of a work of art. Nenki are often accompanied by the signature of the artist shomei… |
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| neribei 練塀 | ✓ | A mud fence (a type of earthen wall *dobei 土塀) constructed with… |
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| netsugi 根継 | The process used to repair the bottom part of pillars and the rotten parts of other structural members of a building by… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| nezumibashiri 鼠走 | ✓ | Also nezubashiri, tokami 椙. Also called jiku-ukemagusa 軸受まぐさ. A horizontal timber with a… |
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| nezumigaeshi 鼠返 | A flat wooden device placed between the top of a post and under the timber flooring of a log storehouse *… |
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| nezumikido 鼠木戸 | 1 The audience's entrance at a theater or place of entertainment during the Muromachi period. Even when the… |
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| nijū kidan 二重基壇 | ✓ | Also nisei kidan 二成基壇. A stepped podium with two layers. The upper layer is called *… |
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| nijū nageshi 二重長押 | A double-layered non-penetrating tie beam with the upper layer often as thick as the lower one. These are found as base tie… |
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| nijū orekugi 二重折釘 | ✓ | Also called kakemonokugi 掛物釘. A type of hooked nail *orekugi 折釘. A… |
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| nijūbari 二重梁 | ✓ | Two-tiered transverse beams with struts between them to form part of a roof framework. The upper transverse beam is about… |
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| nijūkōryō kaerumata 二重虹梁蟇股 | ✓ | A framework used especially in temples and shrines to sustain the roof. It is composed of double rainbow beams *… |
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| nijūkōryō makito 二重虹梁巻斗 | ✓ | A roof framework in which only smaller bearing blocks *makito 巻斗 are placed on… |
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| nikaibari 二階梁 | A transverse tie beam positioned between the ceiling of the first storied and the floor of the second storied of a building… |
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| niwa 庭 | 1 A defined open space, as distinct from the natural landscape, and reserved for work of an agricultural… |
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| no-ishi 野石 | Also *ara-ishi 荒石. An unprocessed stone, a rough stone, an unrefined… |
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| no-ita 野板 | An unplanned, unfinished rough timber. Generally the timbers are split with a wedge and not processed any further. |
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| no 野 | 1 A prefix attached to the name of a structural member to indicate that the member is not visible.… |
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| nobe 延 | ✓ | 1 In a general sense nobe means the entire length of any timber used in construction. |
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| nobito 延び斗 | ✓ | Also nobeto 延べ斗. A rectangular bearing block that is wider than usual and supports a corner bracket arm *… |
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| nobori 登 | Lit. "ascendance; to go up; rise." |
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| nobori-katsuraishi 登葛石 | The sleeve or curb stones that slant along each side of the stone steps leading up to a podium *… |
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| noboribari 登梁 | ✓ | Lit. "rising beam," "raking beam." |
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| noborikasa-ishi 登笠石 | Gable coping or raking coping. Coping, a protective covering, provided on sloping areas or edges such as on a gable roof *… |
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| noboriki 登り木 | Also pronounced noborigi. Also called *noboribari 登梁. |
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| noborinoki 登軒 | Also called sobanoki 傍軒. Also called raking beams. The inclined eaves along the edge of the bargeboards *… |
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| noboriuragō 登裏甲 | Also called keisha uragō 傾斜裏甲, or raking eaves filler. Hidden eave fillers attached to a bargeboard *… |
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