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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
hirashoiin 平書院

One type of window used in a shoin style room *shoin-zukuri 書院造.…

Architecture, Aristocratic 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
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
uchigenkan 内玄関

A subordinate entry in houses possessing a formal guest entry *genkan 玄関, and…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
umaya 馬屋 ✓

A stable. Also written 厩. Also maya 馬屋 or 厩, keiya けいや, and kyūsha 厩舎. Applied to both a…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, 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