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gangi 雁木

Also written 岸岐.

1 1) A general term for any architectural element built in a stepped or zigzag…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tools
gangibō 雁木棒

A thatching tool, kayayane fuki kōgu 茅屋根葺き工具, with a timber head, about 25 x 30 x 5 cm, fixed to a cylindrical…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
gangidana 雁木棚

Also aikidana 合木棚 or kangidana 函木棚. An alcove in a *shoin…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses
gasshō-zukuri 合掌造 ✓

A distinctive style of farmhouse nōka 農家 which evolved in the Edo period in the Shirakawa 白川 and Shōkawa 荘川 areas…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
genkan chūmon 玄関中門

A structure with a gable roof *kirizuma-zukuri 切妻造, projecting from the…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
geya kōzō 下屋構造

A structural system characterized by the creation of a peripheral zone *geya 下屋…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
geya 下屋

Lit. lower house. Also pronounced shitaya or shimoya. Also written 下家. Also referred to as *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
geya-zukuri 下屋造

A form of construction characterized by the use of a strut *tsuka 束 standing…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
geyabari 下屋梁

A beam that spans the peripheral structural zone *geya 下屋, created by extending…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
geyabashira 下屋柱

The posts along the outside of the peripheral zone *geya 下屋 created by extending…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
geyageta 下屋桁

Also called hon'yageta 本屋桁. The eaves plate or purlin supported by the *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
machinami 町並

Also pronounced chōnami.

1 Streetscape in an urban area. The linear space defined by the…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
machiya 町家

1 Also written 町屋. One of the two main categories of vernacular house *minka…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
magariya 曲り屋 ✓

Also written 曲屋. A farmhouse, nōka 農家, with a room that housed stables *umaya…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
magariya-zukuri 曲屋造

A general term for farmhouses with an L-shaped plan *magariya 曲り屋

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
mata-zukuri 股造

1 A structural system employing posts called *matabashira 股柱, which…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
matabashira 股柱

A type of post found in vernacular houses *minka 民家, of the 17th…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
mawarikumiido 回り組井戸

A well with a particular arrangement of stone sidings for its top and shaft lining. It has four lining elements each of…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
minja みんじゃ

1 A dialect variant of *mizuya 水屋, used in the Edo period to designate an…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
minka 民家

A general term for vernacular dwellings of the ancient, medieval, or premodern periods, or rebuilt in the style of the…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
mise 店

Also pronounced tana.

1 Abbreviation of *misedana 見世棚.
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Architecture, Folk Dwellings
misedana 見世棚

Also written 店棚.

1 A small-scale shop in the mediaeval period. Known from the late Heian…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
misedoma 店土間

The front part of the earthen-floored area *doma 土間, in urban vernacular…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
miseniwa 店庭

The space outside the front part of the earthern-floored area *doma 土間 of…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
miseoku 店奥

Lit. "beyond the shop." A term used most commonly in the Kinai 畿内 district and Kii 紀伊 (Wakayama Prefecture), during the Edo…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
mizuya 水屋 ✓

1 Also written 水遣, 水谷, 水舎. Also called *daidokoro 台所, *…

Architecture, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings
monohoshidai 物干し台

A railed timber platform built on the roofs of urban vernacular houses *machiya…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
monzengō 門前郷

A type of settlement of lesser officials and servants which developed around the precincts of great shrines and temples…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
monzenmachi 門前町

Also pronunced monzenchō. A settlement in front of the main gate of a temple (or *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
mukaidaidokoro 向台所

A second raised-floor area at the lower end *shimote 下手, of…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
munamochibashira 棟持柱 ✓

Also osabashira 小狭柱 or futabashira 二柱. A generic name for pillars which rise from the ground to…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
muro 室

1 In Japan's earliest compilations, the 8th century Kojiki 古事記 and Nihon shoki 日本書紀, a…

Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings
mushamado 武者窓 ✓

Also bukemado 武家窓, bugyōmado 奉行窓. Edo period windows with heavy vertical lattice bars, used in castle…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
mushiko gōshi 虫籠格子

Also written 蒸子格子. A type of lattice *kōshi 格子 used on windows…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
mushikomado 虫籠窓 ✓

A type of window containing a lattice of *mushiko gōshi 虫籠格子, set into the upper part…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings

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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