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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
hagi 矧 ✓

A suffix used to describe edge joints of various types.



1 Imohagi 芋矧, a straight…

Architecture, Joints
hirahozo 平ほぞ ✓

A true, square or rectangular tenon cut from a single block of wood. The top of the uncut part of the block forms the square…

Architecture, Joints
hozo ほぞ ✓

Old pronunciation was hoso. A tenon. Protuberances of differing shape and size made on the end of wood, stone, or…

Architecture, Joints
hozoana ほぞ穴

A mortise. A cavity hewn from a timber or stone member or cut in metal to receivea tenon *…

Architecture, Joints
ōire ariotoshi 大入蟻落 ✓

Also called kageire ariotoshi 陰入蟻落; ōire arikake 大入蟻掛. A joint made to connect a purlin *…

Architecture, Joints
ōire 大入 ✓

Also written 追入 or 尾入. A dadoed or housed, angled T-joint, which is used to join beams to posts. A shallow square or…

Architecture, Joints
okkake daisentsugi 追掛大栓継 ✓

An oblique, housed (dadoed) and rabbeted scarf joint. The upper and lower pieces are exactly the same but reversed. The…

Architecture, Joints
otoshikama 落鎌 ✓

Also called sagekama 下鎌. A commonly used half-blind, gooseneck tenon *kama…

Architecture, Joints

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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