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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, *… |
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-… |
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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. … |
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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| tabigeta 旅桁 | 1 One of the purlins used in a hidden roof *noyane … |
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| tachiagari 立上 | A vertical timber that rises from a level or inclined surface. In modular measurement of timber *… |
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| taiheizuka 大瓶束 | ✓ | Lit. "large bottle strut." A strut that is used mainly in Zen style architecture *… |
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| taiko-otoshi 太鼓落 | ✓ | The trimming or hewing of the opposite sides of a log so that the surfaces become flat and parallel making it easier to join… |
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| taikobari fusuma 太鼓張襖 | ✓ | Also called taikobari 太鼓張, fukuroshōji 袋障子, bōzufusuma 坊主襖. |
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| taikobashi 太鼓橋 | ✓ | Also called soribashi 反橋. An arched bridge made of stone or wood. One example is the Yoka Jinja 与賀神社 (1607) in Saga… |
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| taikodo 太鼓戸 | ✓ | A door frame covered on both sides with boards or panels. The inside of the door, like a drum taiko 太鼓, is empty.… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| takaku-bashira 多角柱 | A pillar or post that is multi-sided or cut with many facets. |
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| take-bashira 竹柱 | Lit. "bamboo post." One that has been squared off. |
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| takerenji 竹連子 | ✓ | Bamboo or bamboo muntins that are used for windows in dwellings where a suggestion of rusticity is needed, or in tea… |
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| takeshōji 竹障子 | Paper-covered bamboo frames used as full-sized sliding doors *shōji 障子, or the… |
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| tamagaki 玉垣 | ✓ | The generic term for a fence surrounding the square or rectangular space containing the main sanctuary *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tan'itsubari 単一梁 | A solid, single beam made from one timber. The term is used to differentiate it from a composite beam called gōseibari… |
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| tana 棚 | Shelves. 1 A type of shelf, sometimes with a rack, of which there are many ordinary household… |
Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings | |
| tanjakumono 短尺物 | A timber shorter than the standard length. |
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| tansō 単倉 | A single-structure storehouse constructed of triangular timber or planks set in grid plan, *… |
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| taruki 垂木 | Also written たるき. This is the simplest type of rafter, called common rafter or base rafter. It extends from the ridge *… |
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| taruki kōzō 垂木構造 | Lit. "rafter construction." Also referred to as odachi toriigumi おだち鳥居組. One of the two principal types of assembly… |
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| tarukibori 垂木彫 | An angled joint *shiguchi 仕口 used to insert rafters into a ridge *… |
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| tarukigata 垂木形 | A board placed parallel to the rafters on a gable roof *kirizuma yane … |
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| tarukikake 垂木掛 | Also read tarukigake. A horizontal timber attached to the posts of an exterior wall to support the undersides of… |
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| tarukiwari 垂木割 | ✓ | The various systems of placing rafters *taruki 垂木 in relation to the pillars *… |
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| tarumi 弛み | ✓ | The degree of curvature on a bargeboard *hafu 破風, or on a roof between the peak… |
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| tassho 塔所 | Also read tōsho. The burial place for the remains of prominent Buddhist priests. Historically, the ashes of Buddha… |
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| tasukebari 助梁 | Also called sukebari. A beam which stabilizes bottle struts *taiheizuka… |
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| tasukisan 襷桟 | Also tasukizan. Thin stips of timber san 桟 that intersect to form a criss-cross pattern or a zig-zag… |
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| tatami 畳 | A floor covering made of tightly woven grass and straw. A standard tatami is a rectangular mat about 1.82 m (≒6')… |
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| tatamiyose 畳寄 | Also called *yosejikii 寄敷居. A small, horizontal wooden strip that is placed… |
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| tatara 高殿 | Also written 鑪. The modern character is ro 鈩, and can mean furnace. Tatara is an ancient word meaning… |
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| tate-itakabe 竪板壁 | ✓ | A board and batten wall. Thin boards with battens attached are set vertically to hide the joints, a Zen style *… |
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| tateanashiki sekishitsu 竪穴式石堂 | A type of tomb made in the Tumulus period, also called Kofun period. A pit was dug and lined with cut stone such that the… |
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| tatebame 竪羽目 | Also called nunobame 布羽目. Vertically placed wooden panels cut from the long side of a large piece of timber. When… |
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| tatebashirashiki 立柱式 | Also read ritchūshiki. A ceremony performed when the main post, tate-bashira, of a building is erected.… |
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| tatebuchi 竪縁 | Also written 縦縁. Perpendicular stiles on both sides of opaque sliding screens *fusuma… |
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| tatedanmen-zu 縦断面図 | Also read jūdanmen-zu, meaning "to cut vertically." Either a longitudinal or cross section drawing made along the… |
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| tatedoi 竪樋 | Also called tatsudoi 立樋. A cylindrical or square drain pipe that allows rain water to flow from the rain gutters *… |
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| tatedokoro 立所 | Also read tachidokoro. The point where a structural timber begins to rise. For example, the place where the bottom… |
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| tategu 建具 | A generic term for removable screens, doors or shutters. This includes: sliding screens *… |
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| tatehigo tamagaki 竪籤玉垣 | Lit. "vertical post shrine fence." Also called kakutamagaki 角玉垣 (square shrine fence) or *… |
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| tatehozo 竪ほぞ | ✓ | Also written 縦ほぞ. Usually the two tenons made on each end of a threshold *shikii… |
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| tatejitomi 立蔀 | Also written 竪蔀; also called itajitomi 板蔀. A moveable fence used in aristocratic dwellings of the Heian and… |
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| tatekata 建方 | All the basic wooden structural members produced at a building site including the ridge, and the ceremony of raising the… |
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| tatemeji 竪目地 | ✓ | Also called awasemeji 合目地. Lines made when vertical stone panels are arranged along the sides of podii *… |
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| tateshige 竪繁 | ✓ | Also called tatehonshigesan 竪本繁桟, tatehonshigesankumi 竪本繁桟組; tateshigekumi 竪繁組. Closely-spaced… |
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| tatetsubo 建坪 | The measurement of floor space in any traditional type building using *tsubo 坪 (3.31 meters… |
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| tatetsuke 建付 | The accurate alignment of posts, pillars, stiles, and trim on a door frame in order to allow for the perfect fit of a hinged… |
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| tateura-ita 竪裏板 | The boards placed over rafters *taruki 垂木, to form the underside of a roof and… |
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| tatezan 竪桟 | Also called tatedōzan 竪胴桟. Vertical lath used for a door or window frame. Lath called san 桟 can be set… |
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| Teizō hisho 庭造秘書 | Lit. "Secret Text on Garden Construction." A treatise on landscape design supposedly written first in the Muromachi period.… |
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| tenjin-bashira 天神柱 | Two large posts placed to the right and left of the *kabuki 歌舞伎 stage, kabuki … |
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| tenjō-ita 天井板 | Lit. "ceiling boards." Ceiling boards made from cypress, fir, white or red cedar, and other coniferous trees. The zelkova… |
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| tenjō kagami-ita 天井鏡板 | Also called *tenjō-ita 天井板. Single-panel boards side by side to… |
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| tenjō mawaribuchi 天井廻縁 | Also tenjōkamachi 天井框. A long, light, binding beam, sometimes rabbeted, running horizontally along the wall in the… |
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| tenjō nageshi 天井長押 | ✓ | Also called arikabe nageshi 蟻壁長押, mawaribuchi nageshi 回縁長押. |
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| tenjō nobuchi 天井野縁 | A ceiling joist. A horizontal timber to which a wooden lath *kizuri … |
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| tenjō 天井 | Lit. "ceiling." A ceiling made of cypress boughs erected over seats, according to the Engishiki 延喜式 and Yukiin 悠基院… |
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| tenjōdaka 天井高 | The distance from the floor to the ceiling. |
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| tenjōketa 天井桁 | Also read tenjōgeta. Ceiling joists that run lengthwise in a building, below the ceiling structure, to support the… |
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| tenjōwaku 天井枠 | ✓ | Also *tenjōketa 天井桁 or tenjō ukegeta 天井受桁. A horizontal beam which… |
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| tennori 天載 | The placement of one planed timber on top of another planed timber without making any notches. |
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| Tenpyō jidai 天平時代 | The Tenpyō period (710-794) begins with the transfer of the capital from Fujiwara 藤原 to Nara (Heijō-kyō 平城京) in 710, and… |
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| tesuri 手摺 | A balustrade along a stairway or surrounding a shallow balcony on a high gate *rōmon… |
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| to 戸 | The structured elements that cover a window, entrance, or other opening to protect them from the weather or the inside of… |
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| to-ita 戸板 | The boards used for the construction of a door including: *mairado 舞良戸 (one… |
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| toatari 戸当 | Also called toyose 戸寄. A door stop. |
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| tobibari 飛梁 | Also called tobimono 飛物 or hiryō 飛梁. A beam that extends from the eave purlin *… |
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| tobira 扉 | ✓ | A pivot-hinged door. *To 戸 refers to sliding doors. However, in a compound word such… |
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| tobiragamae 扉構 | The structure or composition of a door fitting. |
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| tobirasuji 扉筋 | Also called tobiradōri 扉通. The alignment of gate pillars *hashira… |
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| toboso 枢 | Also sūjiku 枢軸. An almost obsolete term for pivot *jikuzuri 軸吊. The… |
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| tobukuro 戸袋 | ✓ | A box-like structure into which the rain shutters *amado 雨戸 are stored when not… |
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| tochibuki 栩葺 | A type of board roofing *itabuki yane 板葺屋根, whereby boards … |
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