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Title	Contains Image(s)	Description	Keywords
ichi no ma　一の間		Lit. room one. The innermost and most prestigious room, six to twelve straw mats *tatami…	Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
ido　井戸		1　A well supplying drinking water. It may be deep or narrow, depending on the depth of the water table. The…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses
idoko　居所		Shortened form of idokoro 居所. A name for rooms or spaces in the following contexts: 1　In…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
ikken'ya 一軒屋		An independently framed urban-vernacular house *machiya 町家 of a more…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
ima 居間		Lit. living room. A room commonly utilized as the principal space for daily living. 1　The daily…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
inakama 田舎間		Also edoma 江戸間. A length of 1.8 m or less, defining the standard length of a single bay: the distance from the…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
inufusegi 犬防木		Also pronounced inubōgi. 1　In temples and shrines, a lattice *…	Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings
irori 囲炉裏	✓	Also written 居炉裏. Also called ro 炉. An open hearth set in the floor of various rooms in Japanese buildings.…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
ishioki itabuki 石置板葺	✓	Wood shingles *itabuki 板葺, held in position with stones. Generally used for…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
itabuki 板葺	✓	Wood shingles. Widely used in Japan for buildings of many kinds, ranging from palaces, elite residences, shrines, and…	Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings
itaniwa 板庭		1　A low timber platform constructed within the earth-floored area *doma…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
kagiya 鍵屋		Lit. key-shaped house. A widely used term for vernacular houses *minka 民家, of…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
kama no kami 釜の神		A general term for the tutelary deity or deities, kami 神, of the cooking range *…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
kamado 竈		Lit. place for the cauldron. Also called kudo くど, fudo ふど, hettsui へっつい, kama かま. …	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
kamadogami 竈神		Also kamagami 釜神. The tutelary deity of the hearth or cooking range *kamado…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
kamaotoko 釜男		Also sometimes written 竃男. Lit. cauldron male. An alternative term for *kamadogami…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
kamaya 釜屋	✓	Also written 竈屋. Lit. cooking room. Either refers to a freestanding structure used for cooking, or a part of a vernacular…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
kamayadate 釜屋建て		A particular type of divided roof style *buntōgata 分棟型, where the raised…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
kamidaidokoro 上台所		Lit. upper kitchen. 1　The room or building in which the final stages of food preparation took…	Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
kamidana 神棚	✓	An interior shelf *tana 棚, where paper talismans, kamifuda 神札, or…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
kanban 看板	✓	A signboard placed outside or affixed to the front of a commercial premises displaying the name of the shop yagō…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
kannonbiraki tobira 観音開扉	✓	1　A pair of swing doors *tobira 扉 designed to meet at the…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
karakasadate 傘建て		A structural system found in small-scale, Edo period thatched farmhouses in the area of Shiga Prefecture north of Lake Biwa…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
karasu tobi 烏鳶		Also written 烏飛び. 1　A set of fire fighting equipment installed on the roof ridge of an urban…	Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings
karasudomari 烏止まり	✓	Lit. crow's perch. A widely used term for a range of elements used to decorate the ridge of the roof in vernacular houses *…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
karasuodori 烏踊り		Lit. crow dance. A widely used term for a range of elements used to decorate the ridge of the roof in thatched vernacular…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
katte mawari 勝手廻り		A part of a house in the vicinity of the kitchen; *katte 勝手, *…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
katte 勝手		The term is believed to signify a place where one cooks food, kate wo kashigu 糧を炊ぐ, in use since the Kamakura…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses
katteguchi 勝手口		1　A service or tradesmen's entry. A house entry that lead to the kitchen; *…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses
kawaragushi 瓦櫛		A tiled ridge on the roofs of thatched vernacular houses *minka 民家 in parts of…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
kawarayane-zukuri 瓦屋根造		A vernacular house *minka 民家 with a tiled roof *…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
kazaribuki 飾葺		A decorative type of thatch made from cogon, umikaya 海茅, a tall, coarse grass growing along the coastal…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
kazuki 被き		An enclosed room generally equivalent to a bedchamber (see *nando 納戸, *…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
keshōdake 化粧竹	✓	Bamboo facing placed close to the eave ends *nokisaki 軒先 of a…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
kijiri 木尻		1　One of the seats around the sunken hearth *irori 囲炉裏, in the…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
kinezuka 杵束		Also called tōkyōzuka 東京束. A strut that bulges out at top and bottom. The term is derived from a long-handled…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
Kōjin 荒神		1　Also called Kōjinsama 荒神様; Kōjinsan 荒神さん. 2　A god that…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
komayose 駒寄せ		1　A low fence of latticework *kōshi 格子, construction, used to…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
komise 小店		Also written 小見世. 1　A deep covered walkway *hisashi…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
koshō 胡床		Also shōgi 床几. A folding chair or a stool. These folding chairs were derived from the chairs used by the Huns (Jp:…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
kudo-zukuri 竈造		A roof style found on vernacular houses *minka 民家 in Saga…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings
kugurido 潜り戸		1　A generic term for a small door, very often a wicket door set into the leaf of another larger door or…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses
kugurimon 潜り門		1　A small low gate cut through an earth wall, tsuchibei 土塀, or timber fence *…	Architecture, Gates, Folk Dwellings
kuriya 厨		1　A cooking structure which houses a cooking range *kamado…	Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
kyōma 京間		1　The standard measurement used for bay size in the Kansai 関西 region, along the Inland Sea, along the San'…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings