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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
gedan 下段

Lit. low step. The lowest level of floor space in a formal *shoin 書院 style room…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
gusokudana 具足棚

Lit. Shelves to display armor. They are placed next to an alcove *tokonoma…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
gyobutsudana 御物棚

A set of double cabinets with four sliding door panels attached to the ceiling next to the decorative alcove *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
yanagidana 柳棚

Lit. "willow shelf." An asymmetrical arrangement of three decorative shelves tokowakidana 床脇棚 arranged in the…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
yokoza 横座

1 The seat of the principal and most honored guest sonsha 尊者 at formal banquets in the shinden…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
yorikimado 与力窓 ✓

1 A rectangular window used in exterior walls, fitted with thick horizontal timber bars *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
yūgiridana 夕霧棚

An arrangement of three staggered shelves in the upper half of the recess *tokowaki…

Architecture, Aristocratic 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