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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
hakogata jōgi 箱型定規

Box-shaped measuring tool used when inking and marking off a pillar in order to fit the horizontal beams surrounding a…

Architecture, Tools
hanamarunoko 鼻丸鋸

Also known as anahikinoko 穴挽鋸. A round-nose roughing saw. The name is derived from the shape of the top of the…

Architecture, Tools
hibukuraganna 布倉鉋 A side-shaving plane. A plane used for smoothing and finishing the sides of a groove. Usually two of these planes are… Architecture, Tools
hidensho 秘伝書

Lit. secret hereditary writings. A manual which describes carpentry techniques developed by the master carpenters…

Architecture, Tools
hikimawashi-noko 挽廻鋸

A coping saw. A saw used to cut curves in wood. The blade is very narrow so as to allow free movement when cutting. It…

Architecture, Tools
hiraganna 平鉋 ✓

A smoothing plane. The hiraganna is used for smoothly planing the surface of a board or pillar. Of the many types…

Architecture, Tools
hironomi 広鑿

Lit. wide chisel. A type of striking chisel *tatakinomi 叩鑿, with a blade-…

Architecture, Tools
hosonoko 細鋸

Also known as osaehikinoko 押挽鋸. A thin bladed crosscut saw used to make a plane (see *…

Architecture, Tools
maebiki oga 前挽大鋸 ✓

A large ripsaw with a blade about 60 cm long and 40 cm wide. It was first introduced in the 15th century and was used until…

Architecture, Tools
maebikinoko 前挽鋸

Standard purpose carpenters' ripsaw. A ripsaw with a blade approximately 35-40 cm long and 12 cm wide. The blade narrows…

Architecture, Tools
maruganna 丸鉋

A special type of plane used for paring a curved wooden surface. A sotomaruganna 外丸鉋 is used for paring a concave…

Architecture, Tools
marunomi 丸鑿

A type of striking chisel *tatakinomi 叩鑿, with a thin, arc-shaped…

Architecture, Tools
masakari 鉞

A carpenter's hewing ax. It is smaller than a tree-felling ax, tazuki 多都岐, and weighs between 750 and 1300 g. The…

Architecture, Tools
mentoriganna 面取鉋

A special plane used to cut bevelled corners. A shooting board, that serves as a guide, is attached to a small smoothing…

Architecture, Tools
mizoganna 溝鉋 ✓

Also known as shakuriganna 决鉋. A plane used exclusively for making grooves in a doorsill or lintel. If the width of…

Architecture, Tools
motoichi shakuriganna 基一決鉋 ✓

A plane used to curve the grooves in a doorsill or lintel. Unlike the *mizoganna 溝鉋,…

Architecture, Tools

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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