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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
hirashoiin 平書院

One type of window used in a shoin style room *shoin-zukuri 書院造.…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
hiroma 広間

1 The generic term used for a large room occupying the full cross section of a building in Edo period…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings
hiroshiki 広敷

1 Part of the kitchen and private residential zone of an Edo period daimyō 大名 residence.

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Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
jibukuro 地袋 ✓

A small cabinet with sliding doors at the bottom of open, often split-level shelves *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
jihiro 地火炉

Also read jikaro.

1 A hearth *ro 炉 excavated in…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
jōdan 上段 ✓

A dais or a part of the floor in aristocratic dwellings of the *shoin 書院 style,…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
jōjōdan 上々段 ✓

A relatively small space elevated one step higher than the *jōdan 上段,…

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