| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| hashira-ishi 柱石 | Also called *kutsu-ishi 沓石 (boot stone). Lit. post stone. Usually a square foundation… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| hashira 柱 | ✓ | The generic term for any type of pillar, column, post, pier, and strut, the basic members of Japanese timber architecture.… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hashiraban 柱盤 | A pillar base. A long beam which forms the base for pillars or posts in the upper part of a building. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hashirakugi 柱釘 | Also *hanakugi 花釘. A nail on which a flower vase can be hung. It is nailed… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hashirama sōchi 柱間装置 | A generic term in traditional architecture referring to any architectural element with an interior finish found within a bay… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hashirama 柱間 | A bay or span. The distance between pillars, measuring from the center of the pillars. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hashirasuji 柱筋 | The direction of a line of pillars. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hashirayose 柱寄 | An ancient word meaning the same as *hōdate 方立, a vertical member placed on… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hashirō 橋廊 | A bridge-like corridor that spans a garden pond or an area between two buildings. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hassō kanagu 八双金具 | ✓ | Also called hassō kanamono 八双金物; sakawa kanagu 逆輪金具 or saba-no-o 鯖の尾. Lit. twin… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| hata-ita 鰭板 | Also read hire-ita but this reading is considered to be incorrect according to the Kaokuzakkō 家屋雑考 (… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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 | |
| hatchū-zukuri 八注造 | Also called hakkaku yane 八角屋根. The eight-sided roof of an octagonal hall *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hatsu-no-ishi 初の石 | Lit. first stone. The stone nearest the crawl-in entrance *nijiriguchi… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hattō 法堂 | ✓ | A lecture hall which corresponds to the *kōdō 講堂 in temples of… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hayashiza 囃子座 | The place on a noh stage *nōbutai 能舞台 where three or four musicians sit,… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hazama-ishi 狭間石 | 1 Also read sama-ishi. Rough stones placed between pillar base stones when a building is erected… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hegi-ita 枌板 | Also written 剥板; sogi-ita 殺板, 曽木板.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| Heiankyū 平安宮 | Heian Imperial Palace, located in the northern part of the Heian Capital. Enclosed by clay walls, buildings included the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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 | |
| heiden 幣殿 | A shrine building, usually located on the same axis as the worship hall *haiden… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| heijiku 幣軸 | ✓ | Also hezuke or henzuke 辺付. Thought to be a corruption of a term used in Shōsōin documents Shōsōin… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| heijūmon 塀重門 | Also written 塀中門 and sometimes read heichōmon; also called heichimon or heijimon 塀地門 or … |
Architecture, Gates | |
| heikō daruki 平行垂木 | ✓ | Rafters laid parallel to each other from the ridge almost to the eave ends. When parallel rafters reach the corner of the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| heimen-zu 平面図 | 1 Also *fuse-zu 伏図. The two-dimensional drawing of… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| heishitaji nuki-no-ireyō 塀下地貫入様 | A method used to insert braces into an earthen wall. One brace was placed above the upper cross piece. Another brace was… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| heishitaji 塀下地 | The material used to build an earthen wall for a castle. This material must be harder than that used for residences in… | Architecture, Castles | |
| heitenseki 平天石 | Lit. flat top stone. A name for stones flattened on the top side. Heitenseki may be used to express the wings of… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hekitai 壁体 | Also written 壁體. The material from which a wall is made, excluding any added exterior veneer or covering. It can also mean… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hengaku 扁額 | 1 Also called *gaku 額. A tablet or board, framed or unframed, on… |
Architecture, Tea Houses, Art History, Painting | |
| henkō karakusamon 扁行唐草文 | ✓ | An asymmetric arabesque pattern. Most arabesque patterns have a centrally positioned motif *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| hennen 編年 | The arrangement of things (buildings, temples, paintings, sculptures, etc.) chronologically according to historical period… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| henushi 戸主 | 1 Also pronounced koshu. The head of a household, responsible to the state for the behavior of… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| henzai 辺材 | ✓ | Also called shirata 白太. Sapwood. The part of a tree trunk miki 幹 that is just beneath the bark juhi… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| heri-ishi 縁石 | Also called *katsura-ishi 葛石. Lit. edging stone. A stone used as a border… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| herinuno 縁布 | *Tatami 畳 edging. A cloth border attached to tatami mats. Varieties… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| heya 部屋 | 1 A room specifically designated for the use of a particular person or a group of people of the same status… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hi-no-de dana 日出棚 | A type of decorative closet against a wall, with two small doored compartments resting on the floor and a round window… | Architecture, Decorations | |
| 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 | |
| hiage-ishi 灯上石 | Also kazari-ishi 飾石, hitomoshi-ishi 火灯石, tenka-ishi 点火石. Originally, the stone on which a flame was placed before it was… | Architecture, Lanterns | |
| hibashi 火箸 | Also called koji 火筋 or hisuji. Lit. fire-chopsticks. Charcoal tongs. A pair of metal chopsticks used for… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hibata 樋端 | The edges hata 端 on the sides of grooves, troughs, or channels hi 樋 made in a sill or head jamb. Usually… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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 | |
| hibukuro 火袋 | 1 The pocket-like or box-like space in a fire box or stove *kamado… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hibukuro-zukuri 火袋造 | A style of living room *chanoma 茶の間, found particularly in the taverns *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| hide 碑伝 | Markers set at intervals along a mountain trail by ascetic monks called yamabushi 山伏 or shugenja 修験者. Many… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hidensho 秘伝書 | Lit. secret hereditary writings. A manual which describes carpentry techniques developed by the master carpenters… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| hie-zukuri 日吉造 | Also called shōtei-zukuri or shōtai-zukuri 聖帝造 or sannō-zukuri 山王造. A unique style of shrine… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| hien daruki 飛檐垂木 | ✓ | Also called konoki daruki 小軒垂木. A flying rafter. A short rafter attached to the base rafter *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hien sumigi 飛檐隅木 | Lit. a flying corner rafter. A flying hip rafter. A short rafter that has the same function as a flying rafter *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| higaki 檜垣 | Lit. Cypress fence. A type of fence in which the bark of the Japanese cypress, hinoki 檜, is braided into a net pattern or… | Architecture, Gardens | |
| Higashimuro 東室 | ✓ | The east dormitory for Buddhist priests at Hōryūji 法隆寺 in Nara. It is located in the west precinct Saiin 西院, and has nine,… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| higuchi 灯口 | Also 火口. Openings around the flame holder *hibukuro 火袋 of a lantern… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| hijiki 肘木 | A common name for the bracket arm which forms part of the bearing block and bracket complex, structural elements which… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hijirimado 聖窓 | ✓ | A box-shaped, latticed window that often extended, demado 出窓, out from a building and was constructed at about… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hikae-bashira 控柱 | Also called tsukkaibashira 突支柱, hikaetori 控取, sasaebashira also read *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hikaebei 控塀 | Any upright pole or post which forms the inner core of an earthen wall with a tiled and gabled roof. One example is found… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hikaegui 控杭 | Any upright pole or post added to the inside of a castle wall for extra support. While hikaegui increased the strength of… | Architecture, Castles | |
| hikichigai 挽違 | The act of sawing square or rectangular timbers on the diagonal to produce two trapezoidal shapes. The timbers themselves… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hikichigai 引違 | ✓ | Also hikichigaido 引違戸. Doors that have two or more translucent screens *shōji… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hikidake 引竹 | Transverse finishing bamboo attached to a sleeve wall *sodekabe 袖壁. It is… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hikido 引戸 | A generic term for doors or windows which slide horizontally on sill and head jamb tracks. Some open on both sides and move… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hikihashi 引橋 | 1 Lit. a pull bridge. A type bridge that can be pulled into a castle. One such example is the … |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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 | |
| hikite 引手 | ✓ | Lit. hand pull. Commonly called door pull. A door pull added to sliding doors *fusuma… |
Architecture, Accessories |
| hikiwakedo 引分戸 | Also called ryōbikido 両引戸. Two sliding doors that occupy a single track. When closed, the doors come together in… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hikiwatashi kōbai 引渡勾配 | ✓ | A hypotenuse. A mathematically computed straight line stretching from the peak of the ridge to the eave-end and used to help… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| himorogi 神籬 | 1 A single sacred pillar standing independently. Its origin as well as its true significance is not clear… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| himuroike 氷室池 | Lit. icehouse pond. A functional type of garden pond used in the winter for cutting ice. In case like the himuroike… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hinagata 雛型 | 1 Also mokei 模型. A miniature or a scaled-down model of a planned work of art. It is usually… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hinerito 拈斗 | Hineri means to twist, turn, back, or roll. Also written 捻斗; also called onisarato 鬼皿斗. A square or… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hinuki 飛貫 | Also written 樋貫.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| hira-ishi 平石 | Also tsuki-ishi 築石. Broad, flat construction stones used to build the main sections of stone walls *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hira karakusagawara 平唐草瓦 | Also called hira karakusa 平唐草. A broad concave eave-end tile *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| hira kudarimune 平降棟 | Also called hira kudari 平降 or *kudarimune 降棟. Descending ridges at… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hira 平 | The sides of a building which are parallel to the ridge. Usually the long sides of a building at a right angle to the gable… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| hirabashi 平橋 | A flat bridge made of wood, wood and sods, or stone. |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hirabuchi tenjō 平縁天井 | A simple ceiling made of boards and battens. The battens are thin and rectangular in section and are placed at right angles… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hiradana 平棚 | A plain, flat shelf board used in an alcove *tokonoma 床の間 or as a desk; one type is… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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 |
| hiragawara 平瓦 | ✓ | Also called *megawara 女瓦 (female tile). One of the basic… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| hirageta 平桁 | A light, horizontal, rectangular member that is inserted into the corner post between the top and bottom rails of a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hirahashi 平橋 | Lit. flat bridge. A simple kind of garden bridge made with flat wooden boards. In its simplest form, a hirahashi may… | Architecture, Gardens | |
| hirahijiki 平肘木 | A bracket arm placed parallel to or at right angles to the direction of a roof ridge *… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| hirahozo 平ほぞ | ✓ | A true, square or rectangular tenon cut from a single block of wood. The top of the uncut part of the block forms the square… |
Architecture, Joints |
| hirairi 平入 | ✓ | The entrance to a building constructed parallel to the ridge *mune 棟 of the roof… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hirairi-zukuri 平入造 | Also called *hirairi 平入. A style of building that has the main… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hirajiro 平城 | Lit. flatland castle. A castle built on a plain with the main defensive elements being rivers, swamps, and man-made moats.… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hirakaramon 平唐門 | ✓ | Also *karamon 唐門. A gate characterized by undulating bargeboards *… |
Architecture, Gates |
| hiraki 開 | Also called funbari 踏張.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| hirakido 開戸 | ✓ | Also shortened to *hiraki 開. A generic term for doors *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hirakimado 開窓 | A translucent paper-covered casement window that opens by means of hinges like a hinged door. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hirakishōji 開障子 | A translucent paper-covered frame attached to a door jam by a socket hinge hijitsubo 肘壷 or chōtsugai 蝶番,… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hirakōbai 平勾配 | The pitch of a roof on the sides parallel to the ridge. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hiramitsudo 平三斗 | ✓ | Also called *mitsudo tokyō 三斗斗きょう. A 3-on-1, non-projecting bracket… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hiramon 平門 | Also read hirakado. A simple gate set between two posts. The gate may have a very low pitched roof covered either with… | Architecture, Gates | |
| hirasanjō 平三畳 | ✓ | Also hirasanjō-no-seki 平三畳席. A three-mat tea ceremony room *chashitsu… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| hirashoiin 平書院 | One type of window used in a shoin style room *shoin-zukuri 書院造.… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| hirasode kakugawara 平袖角瓦 | ✓ | Also sekigai sodekakugawara 積蓋袖角瓦. Lit. stacked, broad-sleeved angular cover tiles. The broad, concave pendant… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| hirasodegawara 平袖瓦 | ✓ | Also sekigai sodegawara 積蓋袖瓦. A broad, rectangular type of concave roof tile *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
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