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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
hachimae-no-ishigumi 鉢前の石組

A washstand placed near a veranda or in the corner of an open veranda, shoin zashiki 書院座敷, or in the chief priest's…

Architecture, Gardens
hachimaki 鉢巻 ✓

The name for a thickly plastered area projecting from the wall below the eaves of a building. Used on storehouses, *…

Architecture, General Terms
hachimaki doi 鉢巻土居

A "headband" earthen embankment. An earthen embankment with a stone wall constructed on the upper portion. Also …

Architecture, Castles
hachiman torii 八幡鳥居 ✓

A pillar of the shinmei type, *shinmei torii 神明鳥居, with no…

Architecture, Shrines
hachiman-zukuri 八幡造

A style of shrine architecture characterized by a structure which from the side-view gives the impression of two separate…

Architecture, Shrines
hachiro 八炉 ✓

The eight basic ways of positioning a hearth, *ro 炉, in a tea ceremony room, *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hachiyō 八葉

Lit. eight leaves. Also hachiyō kanagu 八葉金具. A metal decoration carved into the shape of eight petals with a central…

Architecture, Decorations
hachiyō fukuben rengemon 八葉複弁蓮華文

A decorative stylized lotus-flower pattern, *rengemon 蓮華文, found on eaves…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hada noshigawara 肌熨斗瓦

1 The second layer of tiles that is curved and set at a same angle to the first layer of tiles, …

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hadakaniwa 裸庭

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

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
haegi 延木

Also haigi. An archaic term for *nodaruki, 野垂木 (a hidden rafter). A…

Architecture, General Terms
hafu kazari kanagu 破風飾金具

Also hafu kanagu 破風金具. Decorative metal fittings, *kazari kanagu…

Architecture, Decorations
hafu kojiri 破風木尻

Also written 破風鐺, hafujiri 破風尻, or hafubana 破風鼻. The lower end of a bargeboard on a hip-and-gable…

Architecture, General Terms
hafu ogami 破風拝 ✓

Also called hafugashira, 破風頭, or hafu-no-ogami, 破風の拝. The joint between two bargeboards, hafu-ita…

Architecture, General Terms
hafu 破風

Also written 搏風. Also called hafu-ita 破風板. A bargeboard. Straight or curved boards laid flat against the ridge ends…

Architecture, General Terms
hafugoshi 破風腰

The center of a bargeboard, *hafu 破風, which is determined by its length. It…

Architecture, General Terms
hagarazai 端柄材

Also written 羽柄材. Also called hagaramono, 端柄物, 羽柄物; or yamabikizai 山挽材. A general term for trimmed boards…

Architecture, General Terms
hagi 矧 ✓

A suffix used to describe edge joints of various types.



1 Imohagi 芋矧, a straight…

Architecture, Joints
haichi-zu 配置図

A layout drawing on a plot plan showing topography in minute detail and the position of buildings within the boundaries of a…

Architecture, General Terms
haiden 拝殿 ✓

A worship hall at a Shinto shrine, usually placed on the same axis as the offering hall, *…

Architecture, Shrines
hainobe 配延

Also hainobi 配延び or nobi 延び. A carpenters' standard term for extensions created by slopes. Example: Where the horizontal…

Architecture, General Terms
haiseki 拝石

Lit. worship stone. A type of trump stone *yaku-ishi 役石 from which one can…

Architecture, Gardens
haiseki 配石

Lit. stone arrangement. To arrange stones in consideration of their shape, color, and character. 
 

Architecture, General Terms
haitsuke daruki 配付垂木 ✓

Also sashidaruki 挿垂木 or 指垂木. To join rafters *taruki 垂木 which is…

Architecture, General Terms
hajikidake 弾竹

Also bakuchiku-bashira 爆竹柱.

1 A method. Introduced in the Edo period, of constructing the…

Architecture, General Terms
hakamagoshi 袴腰 ✓

1 A trapezoidal form created on top of the posts that frame the host's entrance *…

Architecture, Tea Houses, Structures, Buildings
hakamazuri-ishi 袴ずり石

Lit. hakama 袴 brushing stone. A name for the front stone in a stone grouping arranged around a low basin *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hakarihijiki 秤肘木 ✓

A single bracket arm *hijiki 肘木, which is set into a large bearing block *…

Architecture, General Terms
hakkaku butsuden 八角仏殿

An octagonal hall in a Buddhist temple. One or more Buddhist deities are enshrined within. The record Shizaichō…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
hakkaku enden 八角円殿

An octagonal hall. Temple records owned by Hōryūji 法隆寺 and Gangōji 元興寺 mention the existence of a hakkaku enden as…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
hakkaku endō 八角円堂

Lit. eight-sided circular. An octagonal circular hall *hakkakudō 八角堂,…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
hakkakudō 八角堂 ✓

Also called *hakkaku endō 八角円堂. An octagonal hall. There are six…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
hakkakuotoshi-no-kado 八角落の角 ✓

Also yatsunaka-no-korobi 八中の転. The method used to determine the incline of the main posts of a *…

Architecture, General Terms
hakkakutō 八角塔 ✓

An octagonal pagoda of which there is only one in Japan. Although a plan to erect an octagonal pagoda existed at Saidaiji…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
hakkyakumon 八脚門 ✓

Also read yatsuashimon. Also called sangenikkomon 三間一戸門 or sangen sankomon 三間三戸門 depending upon…

Architecture, Gates
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
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
hakokanagu 箱金具 Also hakokanamono 箱金物, *makikanagu 巻金具, makikanamono 巻金物. U-strap, strap, stirrup.… Architecture, Decorations
hakomune 箱棟

A prominent box-like ridge framed in timber astride the apex of a roof. In section it resembles a miniature building with a…

Architecture, General Terms
hakozaki torii 筥崎鳥居

Also called Hakozaki Hachimangū 筥崎八幡宮, Hakozaki no Miya 筥崎宮 or Hizen torii 肥前鳥居. A stone pillar type of gate characterized…

Architecture, Shrines
Hamagurimon 蛤門 ✓

Lit. clam gate. One of the four gates on the westside of the outer enclosure of Kyoto Gosho 京都御所. Altogether there were nine…

Architecture, Gates
hamayuka 浜床

Also called *chōdai 帳台 in the Heian period.


1 A low…

Architecture, General Terms
hame-ishi 羽目石

Also written 嵌石. A stone panel. A component of the formal style podium *danjōzumi…

Architecture, General Terms
hame-ita 羽目板

Also written 嵌板. A wooden panel or board used as wall covering. It may be horizontally or vertically set. The boards may…

Architecture, General Terms
hamontai 波文帯 Also called a zigzag motif *inazumamon 稲妻文 or a saw tooth pattern *… Architecture, Roofing Tiles
han-nageshi 半長押 ✓

Lit. half non-penetrating horizontal beam. A non-penetrating beam which is 3/5 the diameter of a building 's main pillar…

Architecture, General Terms
han-noshigawara 半熨斗瓦

Rectangular ridge tiles with half the width of an ordinary ridge tile *noshigawara…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hana-akarimado 花明窓

Also kameimado, *oribemado 織部窓, *…

Architecture, General Terms
hana 鼻 ✓

Lit. nose. Also called hanasaki 鼻先. The end or tip of a structural member such as a beam, rafter end, ridge end,…

Architecture, General Terms
hanagarami 鼻絡 A relatively small tie beam placed slightly inside and under the eave ends on a board roof. It not only ties the boards… Architecture, General Terms
hanagawara 花瓦

Also hashigawara 端瓦. Lit. flower tile. An edge or border tile originally, the word came to replace the more…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hanaguri 鼻繰

A generic name for moldings *kurigata 繰形, used on the edge of bracket arms *…

Architecture, Decorations
hanahijiki 花肘木 ✓

Lit. flower bracket arm. A decorative bracket arm *hijiki 肘木 that appeared in…

Architecture, General Terms
hanahiragawara 端平瓦

A broad, concave end tile that alternates with an eave end semi-circular tile surmounted with a circular pendant *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hanaikada 花筏

Lit. flower raft. A decorative, floral pattern popular in the Momoyama period. The design is said to be derived from a…

Architecture, Decorations
hanaire 花入

A container for displaying flowers, or a flower vase. Generally, there are three types found in tea ceremony rooms *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hanakakushi-ita 鼻隠板 ✓

A fascia board. A board nailed flat against the rafter ends, characteristic of the daibutsu style *…

Architecture, General Terms
hanakugi 花釘 ✓

A nail used to hang a flower vase in a tea ceremonyroom *chashitsu 茶室. Some…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hanakumiko 花組子

Also hanako 花子. Decorative petal-shaped muntins found on doors *shōji…

Architecture, Decorations
hanamarugawara 端丸瓦

An old name for semi circular eave end tiles *nokimarugawara 軒丸瓦. Also…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
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
hanamashi 鼻増

Also sorimashi 反増; terimashi 照増. The gradual increase in height toward the ends of rafters *…

Architecture, General Terms
hanamichi 花道

Lit.flower path. A long elevated walkway on the left side of a *kabuki…

Architecture, General Terms
hanamoya 鼻母屋

Pole plates. Horizontal members that are positioned on the outer end of raking beams *…

Architecture, General Terms
hanaranma 花欄間

Also called hanasama ranma 花狭間欄間 or *hanazama 花狭間. A…

Architecture, Decorations
hanasogawara はなそ瓦 ✓

A semi-circular convex tile with a pendant *gatō 瓦当, attached to…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hanazama 花狭間 ✓

Also hanasama.



1 A type of foliate panel *…

Architecture, Decorations
hanbashira 半柱

Lit. half column. Also katabutabashira 片蓋柱 (half-covered pillar). The half visible column on the exterior or…

Architecture, General Terms
hanchiku 版築

Also read banchiku. A method of making the core of a podium *danjōzumi…

Architecture, General Terms
hanebashi 桔橋

Also written 刎橋. A draw bridge. A bridge that has a metal hinge attached to the castle side and a rope attached to the the…

Architecture, Castles
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
hanegi 桔木

A cantilever. A heavy, rough member used in a hidden roof *noyane …

Architecture, General Terms
hanegimakura 桔木枕

Lit. a cantilever pillow. A transverse beam supported by the eave purlin *dashigeta…

Architecture, General Terms
hanegiosae 桔木押

A beam running at a right angle to the cantilevers *hanegi 桔木, used in a hidden…

Architecture, General Terms
hankirizuma-zukuri 半切妻造 ✓

Also called hakamagoshi yane 袴腰屋根, or kabutoyane 兜屋根. A style of roof similar to the hipped roof *…

General Terms, Architecture
hankōran 半高欄

A simple style of balustrade placed around a low, step-like veranda *hamayuka…

Architecture, General Terms
hanmasugata 半桝形

A type of protective box-shaped enclosure *masugata 桝形, found at a castle…

Architecture, Castles
hanme 半目

Also called hankirime 半切目. Wale next to the binding of a straw mat *tatami…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hanmekiri 半目切

Also called *hanme 半目; kogirime 小切目. The partially exposed wale next to…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hanshige daruki 半繁垂木

The distance between two rafters of this type is equal to the sum of the height of a rafter plus the width of its bottom…

Architecture, General Terms
hanshōji 半障子

A sliding screen made of a light wooden frame covered with translucent paper. It is about 1 m-1.3 m high. 1.3 m hanshōji…

Architecture, General Terms
hanshōjibusuma 半障子襖

Also called han-akarishōji 半明障子. A pair of sliding screens with a lattice frame covered with translucent paper *…

Architecture, General Terms
hara 腹

Lit. belly. The concave underside, of a curved beam, for example, a curved transverse beam *…

Architecture, General Terms
haraidono 祓殿

Lit. purification hall. Also read haraedono. Also haraidokoro 祓所. A hall where Shinto priests or lay…

Architecture, Shrines
harakugi 腹釘 Nails driven into the sides of a board that is parallel to its edges in order to stabilize it.
Architecture, General Terms
hari 梁 ✓

A transverse or cross beam positioned at a right angle to a roof ridge. It stretches the width of a building to receive the…

Architecture, General Terms
haribasami 梁挟

Also called haritsunagi 梁繋. Tie beams that run parallel to the roof ridge. One is positioned across the upper…

Architecture, General Terms
harichigae tenjō 張違天井

A ceiling which is embellished with wooden squares of different kinds placed in a checker-board pattern. The ribs of a…

Architecture, General Terms
harigawara 張瓦 Also written 貼瓦. Also called haritsukegawara 張付瓦 or 貼付瓦. Tiles applied to a wall.
Architecture, Roofing Tiles
harigumi 梁組

Also called kōka 構架. The beam system of a roof.
 

Architecture, General Terms
hariita tenjō 張板天井

A plain board ceiling. When paper or silk are pasted over the ceiling boards for decorative purposes, the ceiling is called…

Architecture, General Terms
harima 梁間

Also referred to as *hariyuki 梁行; also written 張り間.…

Architecture, General Terms
hariyuki 梁行

Transverse beams that run at right angles to lengthwise beams. In Japanese architecture hariyuki usually run the…

Architecture, General Terms
hasami shikii kamoi 挟敷居鴨居

The threshold and head jamb used for a single sliding door at the guest's entrance *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hashi 階

Also read kizahashi, kidahashi. Lit. a step, stair, stairway, staircase. Hashi is used to refer…

Architecture, General Terms
hashibami 端喰 ✓

Also written hashibame 端嵌. Narrow long strips of wood made to cover the top and bottom of doors composed of several…

Architecture, General Terms
hashibasami-ishi 橋挟石 ✓ Lit. bridge-anchoring stones. The stones placed at the four corners of a stone bridge ishibashi 石橋. Also called the… Architecture, Gardens
hashidono 橋殿 ✓

Lit. bridge building. A wooden structure (3 × 4 bays) built over a stream. It is closely related to the kaguraden…

Architecture, Shrines
hashikakushi 階隠

1 A pent roof built above the stairs on one side of the annex tai-no-ya 対の屋 in aristocratic style…

Architecture, General Terms
hashikakushi-no-ma 階隠の間

Also hikakushi-no-ma 日隠の間, hashi-no-ma 階の間, or mihashi-no-ma 御階の間. The space between the posts at…

Architecture, General Terms

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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