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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… |
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, *… |
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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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| 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… |
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| ōatsuzai 応圧材 | A load-bearing structural member. Refers to any structural element which supports the roof including pillars *… |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| ochigakari 落掛 | The junction point of a horizontal and diagonal structural member. For example, the point where the bottom of the hip rafter… |
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| odaruki 尾垂木 | ✓ | A tail rafter. A large rafter which usually extends through the second step of a 3-stepped bracket complex *… |
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| 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.… |
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| ogami 拝 | Lit. "praying." |
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| 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… |
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| oigata taiheizuka 笈形大瓶束 | ✓ | A bottle strut *taiheizuka 大瓶束, with a sculptural decoration called … |
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| ōkabe 大壁 | A wall which is completely plastered so that the pillars or posts are not visible. This method is common for the… |
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| 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… |
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| okashi おかし | 1 Charming, or delightful. An approach to the aesthetic indicating a carefree appreciation of objects and… |
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| 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… |
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| oku 奥 | 1 The interior or heart of something. The furthermost, innermost or ultimate space in a sequence of spaces… |
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| 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… |
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| okurito 送斗 | ✓ | Also called uketo 受斗. A bearing block, longer than but shaped very much like the *… |
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| 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… |
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| ōkyokuzai 応曲材 | A general term for structural members that sustain pressure horizontally. Transverse beams *… |
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| ōma 大間 | 1 A gate mon 門, with multiple pillars with large intervals between them. |
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| omote 表 | Lit. "the front, surface, or exterior of something." |
Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| ōmune 大棟 | 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… |
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| 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… |
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| ōnoki 大軒 | Lit. "a big eave." An eave made of long base rafters *jidaruki 地垂木, which is… |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| oriage tenjō 折上天井 | ✓ | A coved ceiling. A ceiling raised by diagonally placed straight timbers *shirin… |
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| oriokigumi 折置組 | ✓ | Also orioki 折置. Method of assembly in a building's structural frame. A method of fixing a transverse beam *… |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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