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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
sabi さび		Also written 寂. 1　An idea of beauty particularly important in the tea ceremony and haiku 俳句…	Art History, Architecture, General Terms
sabikabe 錆壁		The finishing coat on a wall that consists of iron rust mixed with clay or plaster. Originally, old nails were boiled, and…	Architecture, General Terms
sakazukimendo 杯面戸	✓	Also written 盃面戸. Sometimes called goki 呉器 or gokibame 呉器羽目. The space created between small bearing…	Architecture, General Terms
saku-itabei 柵板塀		A fence supported by posts along its rear side, usually with more than four posts per one bay. The facing boards are placed…	Architecture, General Terms
samon 砂紋		Also read shamon. Lit. "sand crest." The technique of making a pattern or design in sand or gravel. The creation of…	Architecture, General Terms
san-no-tsuji 桟の辻		The junction points on a door or window frame where the top rail *kamigamachi…	Architecture, General Terms
sanbari 桟梁	✓	The transverse beams placed in a row at right angle to the large header beams *kabuki…	Architecture, General Terms
sando 桟戸	✓	A simple door made of vertical planks with horizontal cross members that are about as wide as the vertical ties placed…	Architecture, General Terms
sane 実		1　A structural element or tenon that projects out from the end of a board, post, or beam. Such projecting…	Architecture, General Terms
sanehijiki 実肘木	✓	A purlin-bearing bracket arm; one that is inserted into the small bearing blocks *makito…	Architecture, General Terms
sangarado 桟唐戸	✓	Also read sankarado. Paneled entrance doors introduced from China in the 13th to 14th century. They are associated…	Architecture, General Terms
sanjū orekugi 三重折釘	✓	A nail that is bent in three tines at a ninety degree angle. Like the twice bent nail *…	Architecture, General Terms
sanjūbari 三重梁	✓	Roof framework composed of struts separating three tiers of transverse beams, each proportionately shortened in length than…	Architecture, General Terms
sanshigo 三四五	✓	Lit. "three, four, five." A large size right-angled carpenter's square, ōgane 大矩, with a ratio of 3:4:5 cm. The two…	Architecture, General Terms
sao 竿		Lit. "a pole or rod." Aiso written 棹. 1　A lapped rod joint. The stacked tenon *…	Architecture, General Terms
saobuchi tenjō 竿縁天井	✓	Also written 棹縁天井. A board and batten ceiling. A simple ceiling made of light weight boards laid in one direction over…	Architecture, General Terms
sarato 皿斗	✓	Lit. "plate-like bearing block." A relatively flat, wooden block set beneath the large bearing block *…	Architecture, General Terms
saru 猿	✓	1　Monkey. The monkey is represented in kyōgen 狂言 by a masked and costumed figure. The monkey mask…	Sculpture, Art History, Architecture, General Terms
sarubashigo 猿梯子		Also called sanbashigo 桟梯子. A ladder made of wood or bamboo placed in an almost vertical position to reach the…	Architecture, General Terms
sarubō hisashi 猿頬廂	✓	Lit. "monkey head pent roof." A pent roof *hisashi 廂, with pentagonal members…	Architecture, General Terms
sarubō tenjō 猿頬天井	✓	A ceiling characterized by battens with six sides that are not all the same size. It is similar to a *…	Architecture, General Terms
sarugashira kōran 猿頭高欄	✓	1　The pyramidal shaped top of a post on the handrail of a wooden bridge. If there is only a heavy base…	Architecture, General Terms
sarugashira 猿頭	✓	Lit. "monkey headpost." A general term for timber members of pentagonal cross-section, created by chamfering away the upper…	Architecture, General Terms
sasarageta 簓桁	✓	A string, or stringer. The boards set diagonally on each side of a staircase in order to receive the treads fumi-ita…	Architecture, General Terms
sasarako jitami 簓子下見	✓	Also called sasarako bame 簓子羽目. A traditional type of weather board used to cover exterior walls. The overlapping…	Architecture, General Terms
sasatōba 笹塔婆		A very small common type of memorial stupa that is made of bamboo-grass sasa 笹 and used in many parts of Japan.…	Architecture, General Terms
sashigeta 指桁		Also called sashibari 指梁. The short visible purlins that jut beyond the barge course *…	Architecture, General Terms
sashihijiki 挿肘木	✓	Also written 差肘木 or 指肘木. One or more bracket arms *hijiki 肘木, inserted into the…	Architecture, General Terms
sashikake 差掛	✓	Also called sashikake yane 差掛屋根 or sashidashi 差出. A pent roof, shed roof or lean-to roof covering an…	Architecture, General Terms
sashiki 指木		Also written 差木 or 挿木. A generic term for the joining of timbers at right angle by inserting one into the other, most often…	Architecture, General Terms
sashimoya 指母屋		Short purlins *keta 桁, about the length of one bay, inserted into the bargeboards…	Architecture, General Terms
sashimoyageta 指母屋桁		A short purlin *keta 桁, that extends from the second strut within a hidden roof…	Architecture, General Terms
sashimune 挿棟		Lit. "insert ridge." Also written 指棟. Short, exposed ridges *keshō munagi…	Architecture, General Terms
sasu 扠首	✓	1　Equivalent to *inokosasu 豕扠首 in shrine and temple…	Architecture, General Terms
sasubari 叉首梁	✓	Also sashibari 指梁. The transverse beam which supports the triangular framework *…	Architecture, General Terms
sasudai 叉首台		The horizontal base on which the diagonal braces *sasuzao 扠首竿 are placed in the gable of a…	Architecture, General Terms
sasugumi 扠首組		1　Diagonal braces *sasuzao 扠首竿, set on transverse beams *…	Architecture, General Terms
sasuri 摩		Flush or even surfaces. Surfaces that are on the same plane. For example, a threshold *shikii…	Architecture, General Terms
sasuzao 扠首竿		Also 扠首棹. The diagonal braces used to form the triangular frame in many gable pediments *…	Architecture, General Terms
sasuzuka 扠首束		Also keshōzuka 化粧束. 1　A short strut centered between the diagonal braces *…	Architecture, General Terms
saya-no-ma 鞘の間	✓	Also called ōiya 覆屋 or *kusari-no-ma 鎖の間. 1…	Architecture, General Terms
se 背		Also written 脊. Lit. "back." 1　The convex side of a curved timber. The concave side is called the…	Architecture, General Terms
sei 成		Also written 丈, 背. Lit. "depth or thickness." The distance between the underside and topside of timber, stones and…	Architecture, General Terms
Seiengashū 西園雅集		Ch: Xiyuanyaji. Lit. "Elegant Gathering in the Western Garden." A pictorial subject depicting an imaginary literati party at…	Art History, General Terms
seirōdana 城楼棚	✓	Also written 清楼棚 or 西楼棚, sometimes called seinikaidana 西二階棚. Staggered shelves *…	Architecture, General Terms
seki-ita 堰板		Also called *dotome-ita 土留板, maku-ita 幕板. Palings, poling…	Architecture, General Terms
sekibutsu 石仏		Lit. "stone Buddha." A Buddhist image made in rock or stone. The term sekizō 石造 (carving from stone) was used…	Architecture, General Terms
sekō 施工		The execution of a construction project.	Architecture, General Terms
sekō-zu 施工図		Working scale drawings, including plans, elevations, and roof structure, etc. They are enlarged drawings that show various…	Architecture, General Terms
sen 栓	✓	Also called komisen 込栓. A pin, peg, key, cotter or dowel made of hardwood, usually oak or zelkova. It varies in…	Architecture, General Terms
Sengoku jidai 戦国時代		Lit. "Warring States period." The period began with the outbreak of the Ōnin Wars (Ōnin no ran 応仁の乱, 1467-77) and…	Art History, General Terms
seri 迫		Also called seridashi 迫出, seriage 迫上. Lit. "trap" or "trap door." A platform on which actors or some types…	Architecture, General Terms
setchūyō 折衷様		Also setchū kenchiku 折衷建築. Architecture that became strongly influenced in the 14th-15th century by two new…	Architecture, General Terms
sewari 背割	✓	A method of preventing cracks in the heartwood *shinzai 心材 or jushin 樹心, of a…	Architecture, General Terms
shachi 鯱	✓	Also shachihoko 鯱, 鯱鉾. Lit. "killer whale." Fish-shaped ornaments at both ends of a roof-ridge. Thought to be…	Architecture, General Terms
shakukanamono 杓金物	✓	Dipper-shaped metal fixtures used to cover the extended cylindrical ends at the top and bottom of timber doors. After…	Architecture, General Terms
shakuru 決る		To notch, gouge out or scoop a section of a structural element. The term is used especially for grooves or channels into…	Architecture, General Terms
shakutani-ishi 笏谷石		Volcanic tuff, or small volcanic detritus. Named for a valley, Shakutani 笏谷, in Fukui Prefecture, where it is found. It is…	Architecture, General Terms
shari 舎利		Also sari, busshari 仏舎利. Sk: sarira, dhatu 駄都. The bones of the Buddha. After the death of Buddha…	Art History, General Terms
shia 四阿		1　Also known as goseden 五脊殿. A pyramidal *hōgyō-zukuri…	Architecture, General Terms
shiage 仕上		The texture or color of the finish applied to the surface of any visible structural member in the interior of a building.…	Architecture, General Terms
shibarinuki 縛貫	✓	Also mizunuki 水貫. The penetrating beams that join and secure the floor studs *…	Architecture, General Terms
shibuichi 四分一		1　One fourth of a log or piece of lumber, or a 1/4 scale reduction of a structural element. For example,…	Architecture, General Terms
shichū 支柱	✓	Also read sasaebashira. A generic term for stress bearing timbers that strengthen and secure the frame of a…	Architecture, General Terms
shigai daruki 枝外垂木	✓	Also called ottate daruki 追立垂木, munashita ogamidaruki 棟下拝垂木, shigaya daruki 枝茅垂木, and shinkai…	Architecture, General Terms
shigedaruki 繁垂木	✓	Closely spaced, parallel rafters. If the underside of a rafter and the space between it and the next rafter are equal, thus…	Architecture, General Terms
shigotomura 仕事斑		An unintentional unevenness or irregularity in workmanship.	Architecture, General Terms
shihan 四半		1　A square paving stone, panel or other structural element. When square paving stones or tiles are laid…	Architecture, General Terms
shihanjiki 四半敷	✓	A pattern of square paving stones, tiles, or marquetry etc. Each piece is laid on the diagonal, so that all the meeting…	Architecture, General Terms
shihō korobi 四方転	✓	Structural members that slant inward in four directions. Examples include the corner pillars of some belfries *…	Architecture, General Terms
shihōzashi 四方差		Various joinery techniques used to insert beams, bracket arms *sashihijiki 挿肘木 or upper…	Architecture, General Terms
shikiban 敷盤	✓	Also called sara-ita 皿板. A sole plate. A flat level board placed on floor boards to form a base to erect posts or…	Architecture, General Terms