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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
fuebashira 笛柱

Lit. flute post. The thick post at the right rear corner of a noh stage, *…

Architecture, General Terms
Fujiwara jidai 藤原時代

Fujiwara period. A period of approximately two hundred years corresponding to the Middle Heian period (Heian chūki…

Art History, General Terms
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
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, *…

Architecture, General Terms
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
funahijiki 舟肘木 ✓

A boat-shaped bracket arm placed directly on top of a pillar to carry a purlin, *gagyō…

Architecture, General Terms
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
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,…

Architecture, General Terms
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
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
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…

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
ō-itabuki 大板葺

Large wooden shingles which are about 30 cm wide and are laid from the ridge to the eaves. Where the shingles need to be…

Architecture, General Terms
ōatsuzai 応圧材

A load-bearing structural member. Refers to any structural element which supports the roof including pillars *…

Architecture, General Terms
ōbaku tenjō 黄檗天井 ✓

Also called wadaruki 輪垂木. An open ceiling found in Buddhist temples of the Ōbaku 黄檗 sect. The architectural style…

Architecture, General Terms
obido 帯戸 ✓

Also called obisando 帯桟戸. A simple wooden door made of thin boards with rails at top and bottom and stiles, left…

Architecture, General Terms
ōbiki 大引 ✓

Also obiki 尾引. Sleepers about 10 cm sq. that extend horizontally at right angle to posts that are erected on a sill…

Architecture, General Terms
ochi-en 落縁 ✓

A outer veranda constructed a step lower than the adjacent floor. It may also be constructed one step lower than a broad…

Architecture, General Terms
ochigakari 落掛

The junction point of a horizontal and diagonal structural member. For example, the point where the bottom of the hip rafter…

Architecture, General Terms
odaruki 尾垂木 ✓

A tail rafter. A large rafter which usually extends through the second step of a 3-stepped bracket complex *…

Architecture, General Terms
odawarabuki 小田原葺

Also called da-itabuki 駄板葺. A shingled roof which has bamboo battens and or stones to hold the shingles in place.…

Architecture, General Terms
ogami 拝

Lit. "praying."
1 Structural elements arranged in such a way as to resemble the image of hands joined in…

Architecture, General Terms
ōgidaruki 扇垂木 ✓

Fan rafters. There are two arrangements: those that radiate from a center point on each side of the building; or those that…

Architecture, General Terms
oigata taiheizuka 笈形大瓶束 ✓

A bottle strut *taiheizuka 大瓶束, with a sculptural decoration called …

Architecture, General Terms
ōkabe 大壁

A wall which is completely plastered so that the pillars or posts are not visible. This method is common for the…

Architecture, General Terms
ōkabe-zukuri 大壁造 ✓

1 A style or method of constructing a wall, in which the basic framework for plastering is made on the…

Architecture, General Terms
okashi おかし

1 Charming, or delightful. An approach to the aesthetic indicating a carefree appreciation of objects and…

Art History, General Terms
Okazarisho 御飾書

Shogun Ashikaga's 足利 book of tea ceremony implement arrangement, thought to have been written by Sōami 相阿弥 (1455-1525), a…

Architecture, General Terms, Document
okoshi-ezu 起絵図

Also called tate-ezu 建絵図. A fold-up, three-dimensional plan drawn on paper, to show the interior of rooms assembled…

Architecture, General Terms
oku 奥

1 The interior or heart of something. The furthermost, innermost or ultimate space in a sequence of spaces…

Architecture, General Terms
oku-in 奥院

An inner sanctuary. The part of a temple most remote from the main entrance. An example is the Keikyū-in 桂宮院, at Kōryūji…

Architecture, General Terms
okurito 送斗 ✓

Also called uketo 受斗. A bearing block, longer than but shaped very much like the *…

Architecture, General Terms
okuyuki 奥行

The depth or distance from front to rear of an object, piece of furniture, room, building, plot of land etc. It may be…

Architecture, General Terms
ōkyokuzai 応曲材

A general term for structural members that sustain pressure horizontally. Transverse beams *…

Architecture, General Terms
ōma 大間

1 A gate mon 門, with multiple pillars with large intervals between them.
One example is…

Architecture, General Terms
omote 表

Lit. "the front, surface, or exterior of something."
1 The front part of a house and the area around the…

Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
ōmune 大棟

Also *mune 棟, *munagi…

Architecture, General Terms
ōnaoshi 大直

The second layer of a plastered wall. The first layer of a plastered wall is made of a rough clay-sod or mud-plaster mixture…

Architecture, General Terms
oniwaku 鬼枠

A type of saw horse on which to place timber so that a carpenter can cut it easily. Two posts are sunk directly into the…

Architecture, General Terms
ōnoki 大軒

Lit. "a big eave." An eave made of long base rafters *jidaruki 地垂木, which is…

Architecture, General Terms
ōnuki 大貫

An archaic term for a tie beam roughly 3.6 m long by 11 cm wide by 2.5 cm thick. Cedar or cypress were commonly used. Now…

Architecture, General Terms
oriage gōtenjō 折上格天井 ✓

A coved and coffered ceiling. The coved part has curved struts. It surrounds the coffered ceiling and at the same time…

Architecture, General Terms
oriage kogumi gōtenjō 折上小組格天井 ✓

A coved, coffered and finely latticed ceiling. When the height of a ceiling of the same type is increased by curved struts…

Architecture, General Terms
oriage tenjō 折上天井 ✓

A coved ceiling. A ceiling raised by diagonally placed straight timbers *shirin…

Architecture, General Terms
oriokigumi 折置組 ✓

Also orioki 折置. Method of assembly in a building's structural frame. A method of fixing a transverse beam *…

Architecture, General Terms
ōya-ishi 大谷石

Neocene quartz. A type of soft volcanic tuff that is rough, porous and easily worked. It is a light, bluish greenish brown…

Architecture, General Terms
ōyuka 大床

1 The board-floor veranda at the top of the steps of a shrine building. The veranda at the bottom of the…

Architecture, General Terms

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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