| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| gagyō 丸桁 | ✓ | Also read gangyō, gayō, nokigeta 軒桁, or *dashigeta… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| gagyōbane 丸桁桔 | Also read gangyōbane. A single heavy beam attached at right angles to the eave purlins *… |
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| gaien 外苑 | Lit. outer garden. The area outside the sacred enclosure of a shrine, mausoleum, or temple. Typically, the approach to the… |
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| gakubuchi 額縁 | 1 The wooden rails and stiles around doors or windows. |
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| gangi hashigo 雁木梯子 | ✓ | Lit. zig-zag ladder. A kind of ladder, hashigo 梯子(see *kaidan 階段),… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| garan haichi 伽藍配置 | ✓ | The arrangement of buildings within the precinct of a Buddhist temple constructed between the late 7th century to 12th… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| garan 伽藍 | An abbreviated form of sōgya ranma 僧伽欄摩 (Sk: samgha arama). Lit. A garden for monks. Also rendered as sōen… |
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| gasshō 合掌 | 1 The triangular frame created by joining a pair of cruck-like members *… |
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| gawageta 側桁 | Also pronounced kawageta. |
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| gawakabe 側壁 | Also read sokuheki or kawakabe. The exterior wall of a building. An outside wall or end wall. |
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| gejin 外陣 | 1 In shrine architecture, the main hall *honden 本殿 is divided… |
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| gekan 下間 | Lit. lower space. It is a room adjoining the main rooms of the priests' quarters in a Zen temple. It is located near the… |
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| genkan 玄関 | 1 The entrance gallery or porch used in the guest hall *kyakuden… |
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| Genroku bunka 元禄文化 | Lit. Genroku culture. The middle Edo period *Edo jidai 江戸時代 chūki 中期… |
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| giboshi 擬宝珠 | ✓ | Also pronounced gibōshi, giboju, gibōshu, goboshu. A decoration in the shape of the… |
Architecture, General Terms, Decorations |
| gigaku 伎楽 | Also kuregaku 呉楽. Now-lost ancient masked theatrical performances given at temples from the 7th to 9th century.… |
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| gō-ita 格板 | Also called *ura-ita 裏板. The panel used to fill the space made by the… |
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| gōbuchi 格縁 | The wooden ribs or coffers laid in a criss-cross pattern to form a coffered ceiling *gō… |
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| gokakumasu 五角桝 | ✓ | Lit. a five cornered measuring box. A method used to determine the proportions of a bracket arm *… |
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| gōma 格間 | The space created by the coffers or ribs *gōbuchi 格縁 of a coffered or latticed… |
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| gorinmen 五厘面 | Type of a chamfers cut on a square timber or square post with a ratio of 1/20 is called gorinmen along each corner… |
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| goshomune 御所棟 | Also called gosho oni-ita 御所鬼板 or goshomune oni-ita 御所棟鬼板. Lit. the ridge of an imperial palace. The main… |
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| gōtenjō 格天井 | A coffered ceiling. A ceiling with ribs framing recessed panels. |
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| gyobutsu 御物 | Also read gomotsu. The emperor's property. The Imperial Collection of art objects, books, etc., which are either of… |
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| gyōkaigan 凝灰岩 | Tuff or tufa. Popularly called shōkōseki 松香石. A porous stone composed of volcanic ash or from the material loosened… |
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| jabara ita 蛇腹板 | ✓ | Lit. snake belly board. The boards lined up under the thick eave ends nokizuke 軒付 of a cypress bark *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| jabara 蛇腹 | Lit. snake's belly. |
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| jabara shirin 蛇腹支輪 | ✓ | Also called honshirin 本支輪 (main shirin). A short, curved, non-supporting transitional member that connects… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| jabara tenjō 蛇腹天井 | ✓ | Lit. snake belly ceiling. An open or exposed ceiling composed of curved, parallel rafters, thought to resemble a snake's… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| jabaragawa 蛇腹皮 | Lit. snake skin. The boards lined up under the thick eave ends nokizuke 軒付 of a cypress bark *… |
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| jari 砂利 | Gravel, small stones, or pebbles. A corrupted form of sazare 細 meaning tiny stones. Jari have been given… |
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| jidaruki 地垂木 | Also called omodaruki 母垂木. A base rafter that extends outward from the roof framework, generally the eave purlin *… |
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| jien hikaku 地円飛角 | ✓ | Also read chien hikaku. Double eaves *futanoki 二軒, composed of base… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| jifuku 地覆 | 1 A sleeper. The lowermost horizontal beam that spans the width of a bay *… |
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| jifuku-ishi 地覆石 | Also written 地幅石. A long horizontal base stone, sometimes called a sleeper, or a continuous plinth course. It is placed at… |
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| jifuku nageshi 地覆長押 | Also jinageshi 地長押. A non-penetrating tie beam that is shaped to fit snugly around the base of a pillar. |
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| jigyō 地業 | Also 地形 chikei. The preliminary foundation work on a building. Materials for this include: rubble *… |
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| jikuana 軸穴 | Also 軸孔; jikuzuriana 軸吊穴; jiku uke 軸受; tobira jikuana 扉軸穴. The socket into which the pivot hinge… |
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| jikubu 軸部 | The framework or body of a building between the foundation and the roof structure. In traditional architecture it includes… |
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| jikuzuri 軸吊 | ✓ | Also written 軸釣, 軸摺. Pivot hinge. A metal covered wooden-core pivot inserted into a socket *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| jinuki 地貫 | Also called shimonuki 下貫. A penetrating tie beam at the base of a pillar or a tie beam beneath a building's… |
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| jisumigi 地隅木 | A base hip rafter found at the corners of a roof. Ordinary rafters *jidaruki… |
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| jizō gōshi 地蔵格子 | A latticed door made with both horizontal and vertical laths at the same surface level. There are no recessed laths nailed… |
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| jō 畳 | Also written 帖. |
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| Jōdokyō bijutsu 浄土教美術 | Art of the Pure Land faith. Originating in the Nara period, Pure Land Buddhism is a more personal form of the faith than… |
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| Jōgan gishiki 貞観儀式 | The Jōgan gishiki is a ten volume collection of ceremony regulations compiled by Fujiwara Ujimune 藤原氏宗 by order of… |
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| Jōmon jidai 繩文時代 | Lit. cord-mark period. The Jōmon period ran from ca. 10,000 BC-ca. 300 BC. The period takes its name from the decoration on… |
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| jōsei kidan 上成基壇 | ✓ | The upper level of a two-stepped podium *nijū kidan 二重基壇. The lower level is… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| jōyabari 上屋梁 | Principal transverse beam. The beam that receives the diagonal braces at the end of a gable roof. It also supports the ridge… |
Architecture, General Terms |
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