| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| 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… |
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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-… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| 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… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| 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, *… |
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… |
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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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| uchikaeshi 打返し | Also pronounced uttegaeshi 打って返し, utasegaeshi 打たせ返し. Perfect symmetry on both sides of a center line… |
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| uchikorobi 内転 | Pillars *hashira 柱 with an inward incline. Uchikorobi… |
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| uchikoshi daruki | ✓ | Rafters *taruki 垂木 that extend from the flying rafter support *… |
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| uchinorinuki 内法貫 | A penetrating tie beam *nuki 貫 placed directly on top of a door or… |
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| uchinorizai 内法材 | Also called uchinorimono 内法物. The wooden materials used for the framework of a sliding screen *… |
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| udegi 腕木 | 1 A relatively short horizontal timber that functions like a brace. It is attached to and extends outward… |
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| uguisubari 鴬張 | Lit. "nightingale floor." Floor boards which rub together when walked on to produce a pleasant and delicate sound. This type… |
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| ukegi 受木 | A generic term for all supporting or receiving structural members. For example, a timber that receives an eave cornice is… |
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| umegi 埋木 | Also read umeki. A wooden dowel or plug used to fill a hole in a piece of timber. If a knot or some other flaw… |
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| umemodoshi 埋戻 | To fill in any remaining open spaces with sand, gravel, soil, or other such substances, after the foundation and all… |
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| ura-ita 裏板 | A generic term for backing boards, which are boards nailed over rafters to form a backing for the roofing. In an open roof… |
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| uragaeshi-nuri 裏返塗 | Also called uragaeshi 裏返 or yobinuri 呼塗. Soft, rough plaster arakabe tsuchi 荒壁土 applied to… |
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| uragaya 裏茅 | Also urappo 裏穂. A thatching material used on vernacular dwellings *minka… |
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| uragō 裏甲 | ✓ | Visible eaves filler placed the eave support *kayaoi 茅負, and projected slightly… |
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| uragome 裏込 | Also read uragomi. The process of filling the gaps in the rear of a stone retaining wall or stone fence with rubble… |
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| urakabe 裏壁 | A plaster wall which has mud plaster applied to the front side and then to the rear side before the plaster on the front… |
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| urauchi marutagaki 裏打丸太垣 | Also called marutagaki 丸太垣. A fence constructed with logs positioned at fairly close intervals and three horizontal… |
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| urazan 裏桟 | A crosspiece used to secure the back or upper side of a ceiling board. |
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| urazumi 裏積 | Bricks or stones set at the back of a brick or stone wall to give it extra support. The term is an abbreviation of … |
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| ushibari 牛梁 | 1 A particularly large beam that runs in a longitudinal direction, ketayuki hōkō 桁行方向 (see *… |
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| ushirobutai 後舞台 | The rear stage between dressing rooms and the rear door of the main stage in a *kabuki… |
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| usushikii 薄敷居 | Lit. "thin sills." A lintel and sill used under and above transom *ranma 欄間.… |
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| utsubo-bashira 靫柱 | Also written 空柱. Lit. "hollow pillar." A box-like down-spout tatedoi 竪樋 used to carry rainwater from roof gutters… |
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| uwaba 上端 | Also called tenba 天端. |
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| uwabari 上張 | Also written 上貼, also called visible top layer keshōbari 化粧張, front side hyōmenbari 表面張 or finishing… |
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| uwanoki 上軒 | The upper-most eave of a nokizuke 軒付 or nokiba 軒端 eave end. Each part of the eave has a name. The… |
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| uwanuri 上塗り | 1 Also shiagenuri 仕上げ塗. The final layer applied to a decorative painting sōshoku kōji… |
Art History, Architecture, General Terms, Painting | |
| uwanuri tsuchi 上塗土 | The top or finishing coat of a mud plaster wall, tsuchimonokabe 土物壁 or ōtsukabe 大津壁. |
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| uyū 烏有 | ✓ | Also called tori-no-shita 鳥の舌 (lit. "bird's tongue"). A somewhat triangular piece of wood added to a bracket arm *… |
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| uzu-ita 渦板 | A board with a carved spiral-like uzusen 渦線 linear design. It is found on frog-leg struts *… |
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