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samisentsugi 三味線継 ✓ A wooden splicing joint used for a beam. The length of the joint is 3x the height of the beam and the tenon *… Architecture, Joints
saobiki dokko 竿引独鈷 ✓

A long, lapped, rod-type tenon cut in the end of a rainbow beam *kōryō 虹梁, or…

Architecture, Joints
saobuchi 竿縁

A batten used to make a board and batten ceiling *saobuchi tenjō 竿縁天井.…

Architecture, Joints
saoshachitsugi 竿車知継 ✓

Also saotsugi 竿継. Joint with long, rather slender tenons called saohozo 竿ほぞ (rod or pole tenons) and…

Architecture, Joints
sashikomihozo 差込ほぞ

A generic term meaning to insert, usually a tenon *hozo ほぞ into a mortise *…

Architecture, Joints
shachi 車知 ✓

An abbreviation of shachisen 車知栓. A draw pin, key or cotter made of hard wood, usually zelkova or oak. The pin is…

Architecture, Joints
shakushi hozo 杓子ほぞ ✓

Lit. "dipper or ladle tenon." A flat tenon *hozo ほぞ that is attached to the end…

Architecture, Joints
shiguchi 仕口

An angled joint. There are two general types of shiguchi.

1 watashigake shiguchi…

Architecture, Joints
shihō ari 四方蟻 ✓

A dovetail splicing joint *aritsugi 蟻継, made in such way that the dovetails…

Architecture, Joints
shikimen 敷面 ✓

Also called *koshikake 腰掛.
A bench joint. A flat surface in…

Architecture, Joints
shintsugi 真継 ✓

The junction of two lengths of a purlin that are set into the top of a post. The line of the joint is centered to coincide…

Architecture, Joints
shippasami tsugi 尻挟継 ✓

Also called shiribasami tsugi 尻挟継 or obasami tsugi 尾鋏継. A blind, stubbed, housed, rabbeted, oblique, scarf…

Architecture, Joints
shitaki 下木 ✓

Also pronounced shitagi or kaboku. The lower of two or more joined timbers. Shitaki is the…

Architecture, Joints
sogi 殺

A basic bevelled scarf. A timber with a slanted cut, usually at an approximately 30 degree angle. To form a joint, a scarf…

Architecture, Joints
sogitsugi 殺継 ✓

Also called suberihatsugi 滑刃継; hauchitsugi 羽打継. A scarf joint. A simple butt joint made stronger by…

Architecture, Joints
suitsuki arizan 吸付蟻桟 ✓

Also arizan 蟻桟, suitsukizan 吸付桟 or suitsukiari 吸付蟻. A long, narrow dovetail tenon *…

Architecture, Joints

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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