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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
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…

Architecture, General Terms
itajiki 板敷

A common type of wooden board flooring commonly used before thick straw matting *tatami…

Architecture, General Terms
itakarado 板唐戸 ✓

Also read itagarado; also called itatobira 板扉. A 6th-7th century door made of a single, thick wooden plank…

Architecture, General Terms
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
itaniwa 板庭

1 A low timber platform constructed within the earth-floored area *doma…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
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…

Architecture, General Terms
itaokoshi 板起し

Also hegesoko 扮げ底, heragaeshi 箆返. The method of removing a ceramic tea caddy *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
itaosae 板押

Also read itaoshi. Battens used to prevent boards from moving. They are long, thin strips of wood set vertically…

Architecture, General Terms
itojaku 糸尺

Lit. string plus shaku. A measurement that equals 30.3 cm or about one foot. It is the term used to measure the…

Architecture, Measurement
itomarugawara 糸丸瓦

The smallest semi-circular tile, with a diameter of 7.5 cm. An eave end tile of this size decorated with a comma pattern is…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
itomasa 糸柾

A shortened form of itomasame 糸柾目. Straight, narrow grained wood. Two examples are Japanese arborvitae, nezuko…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
itsutesaki 五手先

A rare five-stepped bracket complex found at a temple on Sado 佐渡 Island, Niigata Prefecture.

Architecture, General Terms
iwayadō 岩屋堂

A temple hall built into a natural grotto, or a grotto cut from rock high up on the face of a cliff or steep slope. One…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures

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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