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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
uwabari 上張

Also written 上貼, also called visible top layer keshōbari 化粧張, front side hyōmenbari 表面張 or finishing…

Architecture, General Terms
uwakado 上角

1 The upper corners of any beam cut at an angle.

2 The upper corners of the…

Architecture, Shrines
uwaki 上木

Also pronounced uwagi.

1 The uppermost timber of two joined structural elements. Often…

Architecture, Joints
uwanoki 上軒

The upper-most eave of a nokizuke 軒付 or nokiba 軒端 eave end. Each part of the eave has a name. The…

Architecture, General Terms
uwanuri 上塗り

1 Also shiagenuri 仕上げ塗. The final layer applied to a decorative painting sōshoku kōji…

Art History, Architecture, General Terms, Painting
uwanuri tsuchi 上塗土

The top or finishing coat of a mud plaster wall, tsuchimonokabe 土物壁 or ōtsukabe 大津壁.

Architecture, General Terms
uwaya 上家

A temporary roof or simple structure erected over a building that is being dismantled for repairs or reconstruction. Modern…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
uyū 烏有 ✓

Also called tori-no-shita 鳥の舌 (lit. "bird's tongue"). A somewhat triangular piece of wood added to a bracket arm *…

Architecture, General Terms
uzu-ita 渦板

A board with a carved spiral-like uzusen 渦線 linear design. It is found on frog-leg struts *…

Architecture, General Terms
uzubashira 珍柱 ✓

Also written 宇豆柱. The pillars at center, front, and rear of the main prayer hall *honden…

Architecture, Shrines
uzumaki 渦巻

Also uzumakimon 渦巻文, uzugata 渦形, volute, scroll. A decorative spiral pattern found throughout the world on…

Architecture, Decorations
uzumimon 埋門 ✓

Lit. "buried gate."

1 A gate constructed within the stone walls of a castle. It was used to connect…

Architecture, Gates
uzuwakaba 渦若葉

Lit. "curly young leaf."
A decorative pattern resembling leaves with curved tips. It has been used on ornamental roof…

Architecture, Decorations

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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