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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
hadakaniwa 裸庭

Lit. naked or bare yard. A term for the earth-floored area, *doma 土間, in…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
hakokaidan 箱階段 ✓

Also referred to as hakodan 箱段 and hakohashigo 箱梯子. A combined stairway and storage chest, common in town…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
hanedashi nikai はね出し二階 ✓

A jettied upper floor projecting beyond the plane of the line of posts defining the limit of the lower part of a town house…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
hatagoya 旅籠屋

Also hatago 旅篭. A common term for an inn from the late Heian to the early modern periods. In the ancient period,…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
heichi jūkyo 平地住居

A type of house in which the floor is level with the surface of the ground, rather than excavated into it like a pit-…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
henushi 戸主

1 Also pronounced koshu. The head of a household, responsible to the state for the behavior of…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
hi-no-mi yagura 火見櫓

Fire towers. Timber-framed watchtowers erected during the Edo period in large cities to enable fires to be located when they…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
hibukuro-zukuri 火袋造

A style of living room *chanoma 茶の間, found particularly in the taverns *…

Architecture, Folk 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
hiromagata 広間型

The name given to a room plan common in vernacular houses *minka …

Architecture, 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
honmune-zukuri 本棟造 ✓

A style of vernacular house *minka 民家, found in Nagano Prefecture…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
honnikai 本二階

Lit. true second floor. A full-height upper floor, complete with living and reception rooms *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
yakuba 役場

1 The parts of a stone wall such as exterior corners, top surfaces, or openings for drainage where…

Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings
yamatomune 大和棟

An alternative term for a roof style found on Edo period farmhouses nōka 農家, called *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
yanakadake 屋中竹

Also yamadake 屋間竹. The bamboo purlins, about 20-30 cm in circumference, that are placed about 30-36 cm apart over a…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
yokoza 横座

1 The seat of the principal and most honored guest sonsha 尊者 at formal banquets in the shinden…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
yorikimado 与力窓 ✓

1 A rectangular window used in exterior walls, fitted with thick horizontal timber bars *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
yoritsuki 寄付

Also written 寄附.

1 Room immediately inside an entrance to the raised floor zone; *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses
yotsudate 四つ建て

Also *yoritsuki 寄付. A structural system found in farmhouses, nōka 農家, of the Edo…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
yūjoya 遊女屋

The house of a procurer in the pleasure districts *yūkaku 遊廓 of Edo period…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
yūkaku 遊廓

Also written 遊郭. The pleasure district of the early modern Japanese city. The earliest developed example is said to have…

Architecture, 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