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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… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| 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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| yagura kemudashi 櫓煙出 | ✓ | Also written 櫓烟出. Also read yagura kemuridashi. An opening constructed in a thatched roof to allow the escape of… |
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| yaguranuki 櫓貫 | Commonly double-penetrating, diagonally placed beams that connect the main post *… |
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| yakata tenjō 屋形天井 | 1 A ceiling with the same pitch as the roof. Really, an exposed ceiling *… |
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| yakuba 役場 | 1 The parts of a stone wall such as exterior corners, top surfaces, or openings for drainage where… |
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| yamamichi katō 山道火灯 | A window used especially in the Zen style *zenshūyō 禅宗様; a type of ogival… |
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| yamato 大和 | ✓ | 1 An abbreviation for yamatouchi-no-to 大和打の戸 or yamatouchi 大和打. A door that has vertical… |
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| yamatobuki 大和葺 | ✓ | 1 A type of board roofing made by first spacing boards of equal width at predetermined intervals and then… |
Architecture, General Terms, Tea Houses |
| yane-ita 屋根板 | A generic name for various types of roofing boards including *noji-ita… |
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| yane kōzō 屋根構造 | ✓ | The construction of the roof framework or roof truss over the body of a building. The essential framing for a gable roof *… |
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| yane 屋根 | ✓ | Also called okugai 屋蓋, lit. "roof covering." A generic term for various types of roofs, roof styles, and roofing.… |
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| yanebuki 屋根葺 | Roofing or roof covering. The most commonly used types of roofing are clay tiles *… |
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| yanegae 屋根替 | Rethatching, retiling, or reshingling a roof whereby old roofing is replaced with new roofing. |
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| yanekugi 屋根釘 | Also kobanekugi 小羽根釘. Small round bamboo roofing nails, with a diameter between 2.1 to 2.8 mm and a length from 50… |
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| yaneura 屋根裏 | 1 See *keshō yaneura 化粧屋根裏. 2 An… |
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| yaraiko 矢来子 | The framing members of a fence. They may be vertical, horizontal, diagonal, or arranged to form squares or lozenges. A variety… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| yareigeta 破井桁 | ✓ | Lit. "broken well crib." Also yabureigeta. A design used for muntins *kumiko… |
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| yatsumune-zukuri 八棟造 | ✓ | Lit. "eight-ridge construction." A complicated roof style with multiple ridges and bargeboards, or large vernacular house… |
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| yawari 矢割 | A method of stone-splitting achieved by boring a hole in the stone. A wedge *kusabi… |
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| Yayoi jidai 弥生時代 | The Yayoi period (ca. 400 BCE to 250 CE). The period is marked by the establishment of rice cultivation and an agrarian… |
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| yō 様 | A suffix. When used in architectural history, it means a technical style, as in *… |
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| yodo 淀 | ✓ | Also yodogi 淀木 or yodonuki 淀貫. Tapered horizontal timber, 12-15 cm wide and 4.5 cm thick, placed on top of… |
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| yōjigane 楊枝鉄 | Also called chikara gane 力鉄 or kanehōzu-e 鉄方杖. |
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| yoko-ita 横板 | 1 Horizontal, parallel boards with a wood grain that runs sideways. In shrine architecture *… |
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| yokome-ita 横目板 | Also called *oshibuchi 押縁. Narrow, thin battens placed horizontally over… |
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| yokoshigezan 横繁桟 | ✓ | Closely spaced horizontal crosspieces commonly found on latticed doors *mairado… |
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| yokoshino 横篠 | ✓ | 1 The horizontal line of a bamboo joint. |
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| yokozan 横桟 | ✓ | Also called nakazan 中桟. A generic term for the parallel crosspieces used to frame doors, windows, and other… |
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| yokozando 横桟戸 | ✓ | A timber door frame into which horizontal boards are set. The seams tsugime 継目 are hidden by crosspieces nailed in… |
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| yomezuka 嫁束 | Also called *kirizuka 切束, komitatara 込たたら. A short strut… |
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| yoroido 鎧戸 | Also called gararido がらり戸. The horizontal, louver boards yoroi-ita 鎧板 of a door that run parallel to each… |
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| yosegi 寄木 | 1 The upper horizontal timber yosegi 寄木, in a transom, called *… |
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| yosejikii 寄敷居 | ✓ | Also called *tatamiyose 畳寄, or abbreviated to yose 寄. A horizontal timber level with… | Architecture, General Terms |
| yosemune yane 寄棟屋根 | ✓ | Also abbreviated to yosemune 寄棟, also called yotsuyane 四つ屋根. A hipped roof. A roof that descends from the… |
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| yosemune-zukuri 寄棟造 | Also called *shia 四阿 in the Nara period. Also komune-zukuri 小棟造, … |
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| yoshido 葭戸 | A sliding door or screen filled with reeds yoshi 葭 or ashi 葦, sometimes called match stick blinds, to admit summer… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| yoshigaki 葭垣 | Also ashigaki 葦垣. Also called yoshizubei 葭簀塀 or yoshizugaki 葭簀垣. A fence made of ditch reed … |
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| Yoshino jidai 吉野時代 | The Yoshino period. A seldom-used, rather old-fashioned term for the Southern and Northern Courts period *… |
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| yotesaki tokyō 四手先斗きょう | A 4-stepped bracket complex found mainly on the upper part of a *tahōtō 多宝塔.… |
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| yotsuya maruta 四谷丸太 | Also called yotsuya migaki maruta 四谷磨き丸太 or migaki maruta 磨き丸太. A cedar log stripped of its bark and then… |
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| yūgen 幽玄 | Lit. "profound mystery." A multivalent and influential medieval aesthetic ideal expressing darkness, depth, mystery,… |
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| yukachigai 床違 | Floors that have different levels. For example, the floor of the alcove *tokonoma… |
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| yukadaka 床高 | The distance from the top surface of a floor to the ground below. The term can also refer to the height of a building's… |
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| yukaura 床裏 | The space made by the joists *neda 根太, between the flooring of a second story and… |
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| yukazuka 床束 | Short struts placed on base stones beneath a floor to support the sleepers *ōbiki… |
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| yukimi shōji 雪見障子 | Also called *agesage shōji 上下障子 (up and down shōji). Lit. "snow… |
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| yumi ranma 弓欄間 | ✓ | Also called namiranma 波欄間 (wave-patterned slats), takewaki ranma 立涌欄間 (vertical billow-patterned slats in… |
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| yūri odaruki 遊離尾垂木 | ✓ | Separated tail rafters supported by fulcrums which in turn support long purlins at their mid point and at each end. They are… |
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| yuta-zukuri 雪打造 | Also written 雨打造. A style of architecture that employs pent roof. A common 13th-19th century expression for *… |
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