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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
tako 蛸 ✓

A tool called a "punner" in English, used to pound down broken stones laid below the foundation of a building. It consists…

Architecture, Tools
tatakinomi 叩鑿

A striking chisel. The primary structural elements in Japanese wooden buildings are pillars and beams, and not supporting…

Architecture, Tools
tatebikinoko 縦挽鋸

A ripsaw. A saw used to cut timber in the same direction as the wood grain. There are various types of ripsaw including: the…

Architecture, Tools
to-ishi 砥石

A whetstone, grinder, or grindstone. A tool used to sharpen the blade of a plane or chisel. Carpenters used a set of ranging…

Architecture, Tools
tsubanomi 鐔鑿

Lit. "sword-guard chisel." The chisel used to make the hole needed to drive a Japanese nail wakugi 和釘 into a piece…

Architecture, Tools
tsuchi 槌

A hammer or mallet. Tsuchi are subdivided into various types according to its use. The *…

Architecture, Tools
tsukinomi 突鑿

A paring chisel that shaves a timber entirely by hand pressure. Chisels called *tatakinomi…

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