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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
hadakaniwa 裸庭

Lit. naked or bare yard. A term for the earth-floored area, *doma 土間, in…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
hakokaidan 箱階段 ✓

Also referred to as hakodan 箱段 and hakohashigo 箱梯子. A combined stairway and storage chest, common in town…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
hanedashi nikai はね出し二階 ✓

A jettied upper floor projecting beyond the plane of the line of posts defining the limit of the lower part of a town house…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
hatagoya 旅籠屋

Also hatago 旅篭. A common term for an inn from the late Heian to the early modern periods. In the ancient period,…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
heichi jūkyo 平地住居

A type of house in which the floor is level with the surface of the ground, rather than excavated into it like a pit-…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
henushi 戸主

1 Also pronounced koshu. The head of a household, responsible to the state for the behavior of…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
hi-no-mi yagura 火見櫓

Fire towers. Timber-framed watchtowers erected during the Edo period in large cities to enable fires to be located when they…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
hibukuro-zukuri 火袋造

A style of living room *chanoma 茶の間, found particularly in the taverns *…

Architecture, Folk 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
hiromagata 広間型

The name given to a room plan common in vernacular houses *minka …

Architecture, 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
honmune-zukuri 本棟造 ✓

A style of vernacular house *minka 民家, found in Nagano Prefecture…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
honnikai 本二階

Lit. true second floor. A full-height upper floor, complete with living and reception rooms *…

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
munamochi-bashira 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