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| ibara 茨 | Also called iga いが. Lit. cusp. 1 The point where two curved lines or forms meet. The… |
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| ichiboku kaidan 一木階段 | A ladder hewed from a single log during the Yayoi period. |
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| ichimai biraki 一枚開 | A single window or door opening. Also, a single door or window. They may swing on hinges one way, both ways, or slide. |
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| ichimonji dana 一文字棚 | A term used in all parts of Japan in the Edo period, for a straight shelf *tana… |
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| igeta 井桁 | 1 A generic term for any group of structural members set in a grid pattern. 2 The… |
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| ijō kōbai 居定勾配 | Also abbreviated to ijō 居定. The degree of pitch on the underside of a rafter support *… |
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| ikebana 生け花 | Lit. to keep flowers alive. Flower arrangements. Originated in Buddhist flower offerings kuge 供花 from the 6th… |
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| iki いき | The aesthetic ideal of the Edo merchant class during the late 18th and 19th centuries, combining material sensuality and… |
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| inago 稲子 | Slip fasteners. The wooden or bamboo pieces used on the reverse side of the overlapped boards of a board-and-batten ceiling… |
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| inokosasu 豕扠首 | ✓ | Also sasuzuka sasuzaoshiki 扠首束扠首竿式, *sasuzao 扠首竿, *… |
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| inubashiri 犬走り | Also written 犬行. Lit. dog run. A narrow inset in wall ramparts, or in an embankment of earth forming a footpath or ledge.… |
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| inufusegi 犬防木 | Also pronounced inubōgi. 1 In temples and shrines, a lattice *… |
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| inuyarai 犬矢来 | ✓ | Also called komafusegi 駒防ぎ. Concave screens about 60 cm high and of varying length made of closely-spaced bent… |
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| ippan zu 一般図 | General drawings which reflect all the contents of a building, its plan and design. Such drawings must depict the function… |
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| ireko-ita 入子板 | ✓ | Also called *wata-ita 綿板. Thin panels of wood inserted between the rails … |
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| irigawabashira 入側柱 | Also called moyabashira 母屋柱 or 身舎柱. Pillars that are erected inside and parallel to the pillars positioned on the… |
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| iriguchiwaku 入口枠 | A door frame made of a head lintel and vertical door jambs to which doors are attached with hinges. |
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| irihashibashira 入端柱 | Pillars *hashira 柱 at the inner boundary of a pent roof… |
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| irikawa 入側 | 1 A corridor or passageway between the main body of a residence and the veranda. It is also found in temple… |
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| irikawageta 入側桁 | Purlins, *keta 桁, placed along the tops of pillars surrounding the… |
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| irimoya hafu 入母屋破風 | The bargeboards on the gable end of a hip-and-gable roof *irimoya yane… |
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| irimoya yane 母屋屋根 | A hip-and-gable roof. In Japanese architecture, the gable part is usually over the core area of the building, *… |
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| irimoya-zukuri 入母屋造 | ✓ | A hip-and-gable roof construction, or a building with this roof construction. A gable type roof has a ridge and gable… |
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| irisumi 入隅 | ✓ | The internal angle made by the junction of two planes, such as walls, a wall and ceiling, or the inside angle made by the… |
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| ishibadate 石場建 | Also kanokodate 鹿の子建 and ishitsuki 石付. A technique used at a folk dwelling to attach a pillar to a… |
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| ishiguchi 石口 | The point at which a base stone and a pillar are joined. The upper surface of a plinth stone on which another stone may be… |
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| ishiwari 石割 | 1 The cutting and arrangement of stones. |
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| ita 板 | Also written 鈑 or 版. Originally a relatively thin flat timber, stone, or sheet of metal. In the medieval period (1185-1568… |
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| ita ishi 板石 | A thin, flat stone resembling a board. Also called a plate stone. The stone can be divided into three types depending on the… |
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| ita ranma 板欄間 | ✓ | Traditional transoms that are made of wood and have sections filled with a single board, or one or two parts are filled with… |
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| ita tenjō 板天井 | Also called itabari tenjō 板張天井 or *hariita tenjō 張板天井… |
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| itabei 板塀 | A wooden board or plank fence. Wooden fences made of planks and set directly into the ground are called hottate itabei… |
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| itabi 板碑 | ✓ | One type of pagoda or stupa, tōba 塔婆, in the form of a flat stone stele that became prevalent in the early 13th… |
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| itabuki 板葺 | ✓ | Wood shingles. Widely used in Japan for buildings of many kinds, ranging from palaces, elite residences, shrines, and… |
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| itabuki yane 板葺屋根 | A roof structure covered with boards or planks. Various names are used depending on the size of the boards. A large plan… |
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| itachigai 板違 | ✓ | Wooden panels with the grain set in alternating directions in a coffered ceiling *… |
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| itadatami 板畳 | 1 The boards covered by tightly woven straw mats *tatami 畳,… |
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| itago 板子 | An Edo period term for wooden planks with a rectangular cross-section, between 5 cm and 30 cm thick. These planks were cut… |
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| itajiki 板敷 | A common type of wooden board flooring commonly used before thick straw matting *tatami… |
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| itakarado 板唐戸 | ✓ | Also read itagarado; also called itatobira 板扉. A 6th-7th century door made of a single, thick wooden plank… |
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| itame 板目 | ✓ | 1 A board cut in such a way that the grain lines are not parallel but instead are rather pointed or having irregular wavy… | Architecture, General Terms |
| itanoki 板軒 | ✓ | Thick boards used to cover exposed base rafters visible under eaves. Examples: Eihōji Kannondō 永保寺観音堂 (1315), Gifu… |
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| itaosae 板押 | Also read itaoshi. Battens used to prevent boards from moving. They are long, thin strips of wood set vertically… |
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| itomasa 糸柾 | A shortened form of itomasame 糸柾目. Straight, narrow grained wood. Two examples are Japanese arborvitae, nezuko… |
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| itomen 糸面 | A very narrow, chamfer about 3 mm wide, made by planing the corners of posts. The term has been used from the 17th century… |
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| itsutesaki 五手先 | A rare five-stepped bracket complex found at a temple on Sado 佐渡 Island, Niigata Prefecture. |
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| kabe shitaji 壁下地 | The framework for a mud-plastered wall. It consists of lath, bamboo crosspieces *… |
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| kabegaki 壁垣 | A generic term for shrine fences *tamagaki 玉垣. A fence built at shrines from… |
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| kabekomai 壁小舞 | ✓ | Also written 壁木舞. Thinly split lath set vertically and horizontally to form the framework *… |
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| kabemochi bashira 壁持柱 | Small diameter posts set between two pillars to support horizontal circular laths called kabemawatashi 壁間渡. The… |
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| kabewatadono 壁渡殿 | Lit. walled bridge corridor. An archaic term for a type of corridor that connects two buildings in a Heian period… |
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| kabuki 歌舞伎 | The most popular form of theatre among townspeople in Japan since the early Edo period. The form has its origins in the… |
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| kabuki 冠木 | Also 衡木. A horizontal timber, lintel, or crossbar. |
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| kadozuka 角束 | A short strut used at the corners of podii *kidan 基壇, or a dais *… |
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| kaerumata 蟇股 | ✓ | Frog-leg strut. A strut with legs spread like those of a frog. Kaerumata in the early Nara period developed from an… |
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| kagami ita 鏡板 | Boards or panels planed to a perfectly smooth surface and employed for ceilings or flooring. An example is a thin board… |
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| kagami no ma 鏡の間 | Lit. mirror room. A room separated by a curtain from the passageway hashigakari 橋掛り leading to a noh stage *… |
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| kagami tenjō 鏡天井 | ✓ | Also kagamiita tenjō 鏡板天井. Lit. mirror ceiling. A flat ceiling made of smoothly planed boards shiraki… |
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| kagemori 影盛 | ✓ | A plastered roof ornament on storehouses *dozō 土蔵. Located at the ends of… |
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| kagobori 篭彫 | ✓ | Purfled work. Lit. basket carving. A type of decorative wood carving used on beam projections *… |
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| kai 階 | Floor or storey, and also a counter for floors in a building. For example, nikai 二階 refers to the second floor or… |
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| kaidaka 階高 | The distance from the floor of one story to the floor of the next story. The topmost story is measurement from the floor to… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kaidan 階段 | One or more steps composed of a tread dan ita 段板 or fumi ita 踏板 and a riser *… |
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| kaigata 貝形 | ✓ | 1 A trapezoid. |
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| kaikō 開口 | Also kaikō ana 開口穴; kaikōbu 開口部. A generic term for an opening made in a wall for a door and window, in… |
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| kaimono 飼物 | Any kind of material used to fill a gap. If the basic material is wood, then wood filler is used. Gaps in stone walls are… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kaiorekugi 貝折釘 | ✓ | Also written 皆折釘. A large, square, angular nail used for wooden or bamboo fences. Its head is bent at right angles but has a… |
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| kajū 荷重 | Also ni 荷. Lit. load. The downward pressure exerted by the roof structure, purlins, transverse beams, etc. on the… |
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| kakebana 懸鼻 | ✓ | Also read kakehana, and written 掛鼻. A decorative nosing *kibana 木鼻… |
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| kakikubi 欠首 | A neck-like part under a bulbous-topped post *giboshi 擬宝珠. It resembles the… |
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| kaku 閣 | ✓ | 1 A tower or a palace. For example, tenshukaku 天守閣 is the keep or dungeon of a castle. See *… |
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| kaku 角 | Also seikakuzai 正角材. A term used for any square building material. For example post is called kakubashira 角柱. | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kaku zukuri 角造 | 1 A generic term for structural members that are square in cross section. Examples are found on the steps… |
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| kakugōshi tamagaki 角格子玉垣 | Also called kakutamagaki 角玉垣 or *tatehigo tamagaki 竪籤玉垣. A… |
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| kakurenji 角連子 | Lit. square lattice. Lattice that is square in cross section. A single section of lattice is called renjiko 連子子.… |
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| kakuzai 角材 | Any cut timber that is square in cross section. |
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| kamachi 框 | 1 The frame, rail or stile of a door, window or sliding screen *shōji… |
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| Kamakura jidai 鎌倉時代 | The Kamakura period (1185-1332) is named for the city in modern Kanagawa Prefecture where Minamoto no Yoritomo 源頼朝 (1147-99… |
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| kame no o 亀の尾 | ✓ | Lit. tortoise tail. Short, diagonally set ribs with thin wooden strips called jaboko 蛇骨子 or koebi 小海老,… |
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| kamebara 亀腹 | Also called *manjūgata 饅頭形. Lit. tortoise belly. |
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| kami no jū 上の重 | Lit. upper floor. Refers to the second story of a two-storied structure. *Jū 重… |
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| kamigamachi 上框 | The top rail or the uppermost horizontal door stile. Also kamizan 上桟. |
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| kamite 上手 | Lit. upper hand. Upper end or high end. The position or seat of higher rank, or the superior position in a hierarchy. In… |
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| kamoi 鴨居 | ✓ | A generic term for a head jamb. Unlike the lintel *magusa まぐさ, kamoi… |
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| Kan'ei bunka 寛永文化 | Kan'ei culture. The culture of the Kan'ei era (1624-44) and by extension that of the whole early Edo period *… |
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| kanabakari-zu 矩計図 | Sectional details. Also kanabakari 矩計. A detailed drawing of the specific parts of a structure in a scale larger… |
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| kaname 要 | A term used for the imaginary center point from which fan rafters *ōgidaruki… |
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| kanbutsu-e 潅仏会 | A ceremony held every year to commemorate Buddha's *Shaka 釈迦 birthday, April 8th… |
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| kaneguchi no nuki 鐘口貫 | A penetrating beam *nuki 貫 that is inserted into the structure of a belfry *… |
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| kanehō 矩方 | A line running at a right angle to another line, or something that moves at a direction of 90 degrees relative to something… |
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| kanekōbai 矩勾配 | The 45 degree pitch of the hypotenuse, the side opposite the right angle, of an isosceles right-angled triangle. A right… |
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| kannuki 閂 | ✓ | A gate bar. A heavy piece of timber or iron used to affix a plank door to its structure. The kannuki is slipped… |
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| kansha 官社 | 1 Shrines which in the Nara and Heian periods received special government supported status. These shrines… |
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| kanshinjiyō 観心寺様 | A composite style that includes a mixture of architectural elements from the daibutsu style *… |
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| karado 唐戸 | Either double plank doors *itakarado 板唐戸 in a single opening or paneled… |
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| karadomen 唐戸面 | ✓ | A molding found on the corners of pillars, sills, etc, often used on paneled doors such as *… |
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| karagaki 唐垣 | Lit. Chinese fence. Also written 韓垣 meaning a Korean fence.
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| karahafu 唐破風 | ✓ | An undulating bargeboard. The shape of a karahafu flows downward from the top center with convex-curves on each… |
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| karaishiki 唐居敷 | ✓ | Also pronounced karaijiki. An abbreviationof kara-ishishiki 唐石敷.
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| karakami shōji 唐紙障子 | Also called *karakami 唐紙. A term used in the late 19th century for opaque… |
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