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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
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."
1 The front part of a house and the area around the…

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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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