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hirakimado 開窓 A translucent paper-covered casement window that opens by means of hinges like a hinged door.
Architecture, General Terms
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
hiratōba 平塔婆 A small, flat, wooden grave tablet placed so that it leans against a grave stone. It may have the name of the deceased… Architecture, General Terms
hiratokyō 平斗きょう

Also called *hirazonae 平備. A bracket complex *…

Architecture, General Terms
hirawari 平割 ✓ Logs sawn or ripped into rectangular lengths along the grain.
Architecture, General Terms
hirazonae 平備

Also written 平具, and read hirasonae; also called *hiratokyō …

Architecture, General Terms
hirazuka 平束

A short strut, post, or prop which has the same width from bottom to top. 
 

Architecture, General Terms
hiro-en 広縁

A generic term for a deep veranda.



1 A low veranda beyond the main core of a building. In a…

Architecture, General Terms
hirobisashi 広廂

Also written 広庇, 弘廂. Sometimes called *hiro-en 広縁. An extended…

Architecture, General Terms
hirokomai 広小舞 ✓

A long, wide, wedge-shaped, horizontal timber placed over the ends of rafters to prevent their deflection and to add support…

Architecture, General Terms
hisakugata 柄杓形

Lit. ladle shape. Also read hishakugata or hisagogata 瓢形 (gourd pattern). The shape of the precious jewel…

Architecture, General Terms
hisashi 廂

Also written 庇. The area surrounding the *moya 母屋 or core of a…

Architecture, General Terms
hisashibashira 廂柱

Also written 庇柱.


1 The posts used to support the outer extension of a pent roof or the elongated…

Architecture, General Terms
hishaku kanamono 柄杓金物 A metal fitting that allows a door to swing open in two directions. The fitting is shaped like a dipper, whereby the "… Architecture, General Terms
hishi shirin 菱支輪 ✓

A short, curved, non-supporting series of strut-like members used on the under side of eaves to form a transition between…

Architecture, General Terms
hishigōshi 菱格子 ✓

1  Diamond- or lozenge-shaped lattice or muntins used on doors, transoms, and fences *…

Art History, Architecture, General Terms, Painting
hishiko 菱子

1 Muntins, diamond shaped in cross section, used in place of vertical bars in some window openings.

…

Architecture, General Terms
hitonoki 一軒

The single eaves formed by a single row of base rafters found most often on domestic architecture. 
 

Architecture, General Terms
hitosuji 一筋

A door head or sill with a single groove to accommodate a sliding door. For instance; hitosuji gamoi 一筋鴨居 (a single…

Architecture, General Terms
hitotesaki 一手先

Also called hitotegumi 一手組, hitotesakigumi 一手先組, or *degumi…

Architecture, General Terms
hiuchibari 火打梁 ✓

A diagonal brace placed across a corner at about a 45-degree angle to the purlins. Sometimes called an angle tie, angle,…

Architecture, General Terms
hiwadabuki 桧皮葺 ✓

A roof covered with layers of Japanese cypress hinoki 桧 (檜) bark shingles. The shingles are usually 45-60 cm in…

Architecture, General Terms
hizuka 樋束

A type of strut found in *shinmei-zukuri 神明造. Several…

Architecture, General Terms
hōdate 方立

Also written 傍立; also called hōdatebashira 方立柱; formerly *hashirayose…

Architecture, General Terms
hōgyō yane 宝形屋根 ✓

Lit. roof segments flowing down on four sides, also called shichū yane 四注屋根 shihōnagare 四方流. A hipped or…

Architecture, General Terms
hōgyō-zukuri 宝形造 ✓

Also written 方形造; sometimes called the four-part style shichū-zukuri 四注造, or the square style hōkei-zukuri…

Architecture, General Terms
hōju 宝珠 ✓

1 Also pronounced hōshu. A sacred gem. Usually a ball or tear-drop shape object that is sacred to…

Architecture, General Terms, Art History, Sculpture
hokogi 架木

The topmost member of a three-railed balustrade *kōran 高欄, usually round or…

Architecture, General Terms
hon'ya 本屋

Alsowritten 本家, or read omoya 主屋.


1 The main part of a house.

2 …

Architecture, General Terms
honbashira 本柱 ✓

Also read omobashira; in the case of gates it may be called *monbashira…

Architecture, General Terms
honbuki 本葺

A roof made of wood and cooper sheets to resemble a traditional tiled roof *…

Architecture, General Terms
hone 骨 Lath. The narrow strips of wood, laid vertically and horizontally to form the core of the sliding track for opaque screens… Architecture, General Terms
honegumi 骨組

Also called *jikubu 軸部. The skeletal framework of a building. This framework…

Architecture, General Terms
honji suijaku 本地垂迹

Shinto/Buddhist syncretism. In its early phase this is called shinbutsu shūgō 神仏習合. The term honji suijaku…

Art History, General Terms
honjin 本陣 ✓

1 The camp or field headquarters of a general from the late Heian period to the early Edo period. This…

Architecture, General Terms
horageta 洞桁

Also horaketa. The first two of a series of purlins that support hidden rafters *…

Architecture, General Terms
horō 歩廊

A style of passageway or corridor on the outside of a temple, shrine, palace, or mansion. The passageway often connects two…

Architecture, General Terms
hosokuzai 補足材

The new timber used to repair or restore a traditional wooden building. Sometimes an entire rotted member is replaced, and…

Architecture, General Terms
hōto 方斗

Also read hōdo. The bearing block placed in the center of criss-cross bracket arms *…

Architecture, General Terms
hottate-bashira 掘立柱

Also written 掘立て柱, 掘建て柱. Earth fast posts. Posts *hashira 柱 whose feet, …

Architecture, General Terms
hottate goya 掘立小屋

Also written 掘立て小屋, 掘建て小屋.



1 A simply constructed vernacular hut with earthfast posts *…

Architecture, General Terms
hottate 掘立

Also written 掘立て, 掘建て. A construction technique whereby the feet of posts, hashira-no-nemoto 柱の根元, are embedded…

Architecture, General Terms
hōzuka 方束

The square struts used to support the ends of veranda boards. Circular posts are thought to have been used earlier than…

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