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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
sagefuri 下振

Also called shōjiki 正直. A plumb line with a plumb bob, furiko 振子, at the lower end. The plumb bob is a…

Architecture, Tools
shakuzue 尺杖

A rod-like, rectangular piece of wood made of Japanese cedar sugi 杉, or Japanese cypress hinoki 桧, 1.8 to…

Architecture, Tools
shiage ganna 仕上鉋

A special finishing plane. A plane used in the final stage of smoothing wood after the surface has been flattened with the…

Architecture, Tools
sokosarainomi 底渫鑿

Lit. "bottom-cleaning chisel." A chisel designed to clean out the wooden shavings which have accumulated in the base of the…

Architecture, Tools
soridaiganna 反り台鉋 ✓

A plane used for moulding curved, wooden architectural elements such as gable boards or projecting rafters. The sole of the…

Architecture, Tools
sujikebiki 筋毛引

A carpentry gauge used to mark accurate, parallel lines on pillars, door frames and planks, or to accurately redraw the…

Architecture, Tools
suminawa 墨縄

Also known as sumi-ito 墨糸. A carpenter's inking line. It is used for drawing a reference line (the procedure is…

Architecture, Tools
sumisashi 墨刺

Also written 墨芯. A bamboo brush or drawing spatula. The tip of a piece of bamboo is sharpened into a pallet shape and then…

Architecture, Tools
sumitsubo 墨壷

Carpenter's ink pot, or ink pad. The sumitsubo, unlike other carpentry tools, does not have a fixed shape or size.…

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