| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| gangi 雁木 | Also written 岸岐. |
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 | |
| ochimune-zukuri 落棟造 | A design incorporating a projection from a major building with a roof ridge *mune… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| ōdo 大戸 | ✓ | 1 Lit. "great door." Also called *ōdoguchi 大戸口. The door… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| ōdoguchi 大戸口 | 1 The main entrance to traditional vernacular houses *minka 民家… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| okamabashira 御竃柱 | Also written 御釜柱. A pillar which is erected opposite the main central support pillar *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| okami 御上 | 1 A room that abutted the earth-floored area *doma 土間, at its… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| okiya 置屋 | The houses of procurers keeping teams of yūjo 遊女, female entertainers and prostitutes in the authorised pleasure… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| okiyane 置屋根 | ✓ | The upper roof erected over storehouses, kura 倉, of the *dozō … |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| okuzashiki 奥座敷 | 1 A general term for the final or innermost room of a *shoin 書院… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| omote 表 | Lit. "the front, surface, or exterior of something." |
Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| omoteya 表屋 | A row of urban vernacular buildings *machiya 町家, directly facing the street at… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| omoteya-zukuri 表屋造 | ✓ | A layout of urban vernacular residences *machiya 町家, found during the Edo… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| oshi-ita 押板 | 1 A low four-legged table used in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods in upper class priestly and lay… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| oue 御上 | 1 The wife of a member of the upper classes and her living chambers. The term, used in the Muromachi period… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings |
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