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ita zu 板図 ✓

A floor plan for a wooden building drawn by a carpenter on a thin piece of board. The plan does not include detail, but the…

Architecture, Tools
uchidashinomi 打出し鑿

A strike-through chisel. Normally, when constructing a pass-through mortise, the timber is carved away from both sides with…

Architecture, Tools
uragane 裏矩

Also called urame 裏目.
The scale marked on the back side of a carpenter's square, which is the square root of…

Architecture, Tools

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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