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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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| yagura kemudashi 櫓煙出 | ✓ | Also written 櫓烟出. Also read yagura kemuridashi. An opening constructed in a thatched roof to allow the escape of… |
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| yaguranuki 櫓貫 | Commonly double-penetrating, diagonally placed beams that connect the main post *… |
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| yakata tenjō 屋形天井 | 1 A ceiling with the same pitch as the roof. Really, an exposed ceiling *… |
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| yakuba 役場 | 1 The parts of a stone wall such as exterior corners, top surfaces, or openings for drainage where… |
Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings | |
| yamamichi katō 山道火灯 | A window used especially in the Zen style *zenshūyō 禅宗様; a type of ogival… |
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| yamato 大和 | ✓ | 1 An abbreviation for yamatouchi-no-to 大和打の戸 or yamatouchi 大和打. A door that has vertical… |
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| yamatobuki 大和葺 | ✓ | 1 A type of board roofing made by first spacing boards of equal width at predetermined intervals and then… |
Architecture, General Terms, Tea Houses |
| yane-ita 屋根板 | A generic name for various types of roofing boards including *noji-ita… |
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| yane kōzō 屋根構造 | ✓ | The construction of the roof framework or roof truss over the body of a building. The essential framing for a gable roof *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yane 屋根 | ✓ | Also called okugai 屋蓋, lit. "roof covering." A generic term for various types of roofs, roof styles, and roofing.… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yanebuki 屋根葺 | Roofing or roof covering. The most commonly used types of roofing are clay tiles *… |
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| yanegae 屋根替 | Rethatching, retiling, or reshingling a roof whereby old roofing is replaced with new roofing. |
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| yanekugi 屋根釘 | Also kobanekugi 小羽根釘. Small round bamboo roofing nails, with a diameter between 2.1 to 2.8 mm and a length from 50… |
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| yaneura 屋根裏 | 1 See *keshō yaneura 化粧屋根裏. 2 An… |
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| yaraiko 矢来子 | The framing members of a fence. They may be vertical, horizontal, diagonal, or arranged to form squares or lozenges. A variety… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| yareigeta 破井桁 | ✓ | Lit. "broken well crib." Also yabureigeta. A design used for muntins *kumiko… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yatsumune-zukuri 八棟造 | ✓ | Lit. "eight-ridge construction." A complicated roof style with multiple ridges and bargeboards, or large vernacular house… |
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| yawari 矢割 | A method of stone-splitting achieved by boring a hole in the stone. A wedge *kusabi… |
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| Yayoi jidai 弥生時代 | The Yayoi period (ca. 400 BCE to 250 CE). The period is marked by the establishment of rice cultivation and an agrarian… |
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| yō 様 | A suffix. When used in architectural history, it means a technical style, as in *… |
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| yodo 淀 | ✓ | Also yodogi 淀木 or yodonuki 淀貫. Tapered horizontal timber, 12-15 cm wide and 4.5 cm thick, placed on top of… |
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| yōjigane 楊枝鉄 | Also called chikara gane 力鉄 or kanehōzu-e 鉄方杖. |
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| yoko-ita 横板 | 1 Horizontal, parallel boards with a wood grain that runs sideways. In shrine architecture *… |
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| yokome-ita 横目板 | Also called *oshibuchi 押縁. Narrow, thin battens placed horizontally over… |
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| yokoshigezan 横繁桟 | ✓ | Closely spaced horizontal crosspieces commonly found on latticed doors *mairado… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yokoshino 横篠 | ✓ | 1 The horizontal line of a bamboo joint. |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yokozan 横桟 | ✓ | Also called nakazan 中桟. A generic term for the parallel crosspieces used to frame doors, windows, and other… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yokozando 横桟戸 | ✓ | A timber door frame into which horizontal boards are set. The seams tsugime 継目 are hidden by crosspieces nailed in… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yomezuka 嫁束 | Also called *kirizuka 切束, komitatara 込たたら. A short strut… |
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| yoroido 鎧戸 | Also called gararido がらり戸. The horizontal, louver boards yoroi-ita 鎧板 of a door that run parallel to each… |
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| yosegi 寄木 | 1 The upper horizontal timber yosegi 寄木, in a transom, called *… |
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| yosejikii 寄敷居 | ✓ | Also called *tatamiyose 畳寄, or abbreviated to yose 寄. A horizontal timber level with… | Architecture, General Terms |
| yosemune yane 寄棟屋根 | ✓ | Also abbreviated to yosemune 寄棟, also called yotsuyane 四つ屋根. A hipped roof. A roof that descends from the… |
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| yosemune-zukuri 寄棟造 | Also called *shia 四阿 in the Nara period. Also komune-zukuri 小棟造, … |
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| yoshido 葭戸 | A sliding door or screen filled with reeds yoshi 葭 or ashi 葦, sometimes called match stick blinds, to admit summer… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| yoshigaki 葭垣 | Also ashigaki 葦垣. Also called yoshizubei 葭簀塀 or yoshizugaki 葭簀垣. A fence made of ditch reed … |
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| Yoshino jidai 吉野時代 | The Yoshino period. A seldom-used, rather old-fashioned term for the Southern and Northern Courts period *… |
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| yotesaki tokyō 四手先斗きょう | A 4-stepped bracket complex found mainly on the upper part of a *tahōtō 多宝塔.… |
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| yotsuya maruta 四谷丸太 | Also called yotsuya migaki maruta 四谷磨き丸太 or migaki maruta 磨き丸太. A cedar log stripped of its bark and then… |
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| yūgen 幽玄 | Lit. "profound mystery." A multivalent and influential medieval aesthetic ideal expressing darkness, depth, mystery,… |
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| yukachigai 床違 | Floors that have different levels. For example, the floor of the alcove *tokonoma… |
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| yukadaka 床高 | The distance from the top surface of a floor to the ground below. The term can also refer to the height of a building's… |
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| yukaura 床裏 | The space made by the joists *neda 根太, between the flooring of a second story and… |
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| yukazuka 床束 | Short struts placed on base stones beneath a floor to support the sleepers *ōbiki… |
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| yukimi shōji 雪見障子 | Also called *agesage shōji 上下障子 (up and down shōji). Lit. "snow… |
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| yumi ranma 弓欄間 | ✓ | Also called namiranma 波欄間 (wave-patterned slats), takewaki ranma 立涌欄間 (vertical billow-patterned slats in… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yūri odaruki 遊離尾垂木 | ✓ | Separated tail rafters supported by fulcrums which in turn support long purlins at their mid point and at each end. They are… |
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| yuta-zukuri 雪打造 | Also written 雨打造. A style of architecture that employs pent roof. A common 13th-19th century expression for *… |
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