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| jabara ita 蛇腹板 | ✓ | Lit. snake belly board. The boards lined up under the thick eave ends nokizuke 軒付 of a cypress bark *… |
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| jabara 蛇腹 | Lit. snake's belly. |
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| jabara shirin 蛇腹支輪 | ✓ | Also called honshirin 本支輪 (main shirin). A short, curved, non-supporting transitional member that connects… |
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| jabara tenjō 蛇腹天井 | ✓ | Lit. snake belly ceiling. An open or exposed ceiling composed of curved, parallel rafters, thought to resemble a snake's… |
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| jabaragawa 蛇腹皮 | Lit. snake skin. The boards lined up under the thick eave ends nokizuke 軒付 of a cypress bark *… |
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| jari 砂利 | Gravel, small stones, or pebbles. A corrupted form of sazare 細 meaning tiny stones. Jari have been given… |
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| jidaruki 地垂木 | Also called omodaruki 母垂木. A base rafter that extends outward from the roof framework, generally the eave purlin *… |
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| jien hikaku 地円飛角 | ✓ | Also read chien hikaku. Double eaves *futanoki 二軒, composed of base… |
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| jifuku 地覆 | 1 A sleeper. The lowermost horizontal beam that spans the width of a bay *… |
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| jifuku-ishi 地覆石 | Also written 地幅石. A long horizontal base stone, sometimes called a sleeper, or a continuous plinth course. It is placed at… |
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| jifuku nageshi 地覆長押 | Also jinageshi 地長押. A non-penetrating tie beam that is shaped to fit snugly around the base of a pillar. |
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| jigyō 地業 | Also 地形 chikei. The preliminary foundation work on a building. Materials for this include: rubble *… |
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| jikuana 軸穴 | Also 軸孔; jikuzuriana 軸吊穴; jiku uke 軸受; tobira jikuana 扉軸穴. The socket into which the pivot hinge… |
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| jikubu 軸部 | The framework or body of a building between the foundation and the roof structure. In traditional architecture it includes… |
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| jikuzuri 軸吊 | ✓ | Also written 軸釣, 軸摺. Pivot hinge. A metal covered wooden-core pivot inserted into a socket *… |
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| jinuki 地貫 | Also called shimonuki 下貫. A penetrating tie beam at the base of a pillar or a tie beam beneath a building's… |
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| jisumigi 地隅木 | A base hip rafter found at the corners of a roof. Ordinary rafters *jidaruki… |
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| jizō gōshi 地蔵格子 | A latticed door made with both horizontal and vertical laths at the same surface level. There are no recessed laths nailed… |
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| jō 畳 | Also written 帖. |
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| Jōdokyō bijutsu 浄土教美術 | Art of the Pure Land faith. Originating in the Nara period, Pure Land Buddhism is a more personal form of the faith than… |
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| Jōgan gishiki 貞観儀式 | The Jōgan gishiki is a ten volume collection of ceremony regulations compiled by Fujiwara Ujimune 藤原氏宗 by order of… |
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| Jōmon jidai 繩文時代 | Lit. cord-mark period. The Jōmon period ran from ca. 10,000 BC-ca. 300 BC. The period takes its name from the decoration on… |
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| jōsei kidan 上成基壇 | ✓ | The upper level of a two-stepped podium *nijū kidan 二重基壇. The lower level is… |
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| jōyabari 上屋梁 | Principal transverse beam. The beam that receives the diagonal braces at the end of a gable roof. It also supports the ridge… |
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| ō-itabuki 大板葺 | Large wooden shingles which are about 30 cm wide and are laid from the ridge to the eaves. Where the shingles need to be… |
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| ōatsuzai 応圧材 | A load-bearing structural member. Refers to any structural element which supports the roof including pillars *… |
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| ōbaku tenjō 黄檗天井 | ✓ | Also called wadaruki 輪垂木. An open ceiling found in Buddhist temples of the Ōbaku 黄檗 sect. The architectural style… |
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| obido 帯戸 | ✓ | Also called obisando 帯桟戸. A simple wooden door made of thin boards with rails at top and bottom and stiles, left… |
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| ōbiki 大引 | ✓ | Also obiki 尾引. Sleepers about 10 cm sq. that extend horizontally at right angle to posts that are erected on a sill… |
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| ochi-en 落縁 | ✓ | A outer veranda constructed a step lower than the adjacent floor. It may also be constructed one step lower than a broad… |
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| ochigakari 落掛 | The junction point of a horizontal and diagonal structural member. For example, the point where the bottom of the hip rafter… |
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| odaruki 尾垂木 | ✓ | A tail rafter. A large rafter which usually extends through the second step of a 3-stepped bracket complex *… |
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| odawarabuki 小田原葺 | Also called da-itabuki 駄板葺. A shingled roof which has bamboo battens and or stones to hold the shingles in place.… |
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| ogami 拝 | Lit. "praying." |
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| ōgidaruki 扇垂木 | ✓ | Fan rafters. There are two arrangements: those that radiate from a center point on each side of the building; or those that… |
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| oigata taiheizuka 笈形大瓶束 | ✓ | A bottle strut *taiheizuka 大瓶束, with a sculptural decoration called … |
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| ōkabe 大壁 | A wall which is completely plastered so that the pillars or posts are not visible. This method is common for the… |
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| ōkabe-zukuri 大壁造 | ✓ | 1 A style or method of constructing a wall, in which the basic framework for plastering is made on the… |
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| okashi おかし | 1 Charming, or delightful. An approach to the aesthetic indicating a carefree appreciation of objects and… |
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| Okazarisho 御飾書 | Shogun Ashikaga's 足利 book of tea ceremony implement arrangement, thought to have been written by Sōami 相阿弥 (1455-1525), a… |
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| okoshi-ezu 起絵図 | Also called tate-ezu 建絵図. A fold-up, three-dimensional plan drawn on paper, to show the interior of rooms assembled… |
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| oku 奥 | 1 The interior or heart of something. The furthermost, innermost or ultimate space in a sequence of spaces… |
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| oku-in 奥院 | An inner sanctuary. The part of a temple most remote from the main entrance. An example is the Keikyū-in 桂宮院, at Kōryūji… |
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| okurito 送斗 | ✓ | Also called uketo 受斗. A bearing block, longer than but shaped very much like the *… |
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| okuyuki 奥行 | The depth or distance from front to rear of an object, piece of furniture, room, building, plot of land etc. It may be… |
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| ōkyokuzai 応曲材 | A general term for structural members that sustain pressure horizontally. Transverse beams *… |
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| ōma 大間 | 1 A gate mon 門, with multiple pillars with large intervals between them. |
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| omote 表 | Lit. "the front, surface, or exterior of something." |
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| ōmune 大棟 | Architecture, General Terms | ||
| ōnaoshi 大直 | The second layer of a plastered wall. The first layer of a plastered wall is made of a rough clay-sod or mud-plaster mixture… |
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| oniwaku 鬼枠 | A type of saw horse on which to place timber so that a carpenter can cut it easily. Two posts are sunk directly into the… |
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| ōnoki 大軒 | Lit. "a big eave." An eave made of long base rafters *jidaruki 地垂木, which is… |
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| ōnuki 大貫 | An archaic term for a tie beam roughly 3.6 m long by 11 cm wide by 2.5 cm thick. Cedar or cypress were commonly used. Now… |
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| oriage gōtenjō 折上格天井 | ✓ | A coved and coffered ceiling. The coved part has curved struts. It surrounds the coffered ceiling and at the same time… |
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| oriage kogumi gōtenjō 折上小組格天井 | ✓ | A coved, coffered and finely latticed ceiling. When the height of a ceiling of the same type is increased by curved struts… |
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| oriage tenjō 折上天井 | ✓ | A coved ceiling. A ceiling raised by diagonally placed straight timbers *shirin… |
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| oriokigumi 折置組 | ✓ | Also orioki 折置. Method of assembly in a building's structural frame. A method of fixing a transverse beam *… |
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| ōya-ishi 大谷石 | Neocene quartz. A type of soft volcanic tuff that is rough, porous and easily worked. It is a light, bluish greenish brown… |
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| ōyuka 大床 | 1 The board-floor veranda at the top of the steps of a shrine building. The veranda at the bottom of the… |
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