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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
imotsugi 芋継

Same meaning as imomeji 芋目地.

1 A straight-line, end-to-end blind stub tenon *…

Architecture, Joints
irizanebari 入実張

Also called yatoi zane 雇実; yatoi zanebari 雇実張 or yatoi zanehagi 雇実矧. A plank that is grooved on…

Architecture, Joints
isukatsugi いすか継 ✓

A halved rabbeted (oblique) scarf joint *sogitsugi 殺継. A…

Architecture, Joints
nagarehozo 流ほぞ ✓

A sloped tenon, which is cut into the end of a beam. The top of the tenon is flush with the top surface of the beam. The…

Architecture, Joints
nejigumi 捻組

Lit. "twisted construction." A bevelled, wooden, angled joint, sogi mokuzō shiguchi 殺木造仕口, commonly used to connect…

Architecture, Joints
nimaihozo 二枚ほぞ ✓

Double tenons. Double tenons take many forms including individual, rectangular tenons of the same size placed side by side…

Architecture, Joints
nogetsugi 芒継 ✓ Also called kayaoi kamatsugi 茅負鎌継. A joint used to join sections of an eave support *kayaoi… Architecture, Joints

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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