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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
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 *…

Architecture, General Terms
jabara 蛇腹

Lit. snake's belly.

1 A cornice. Called nokijabara 軒蛇腹, at the eaves of a building and …

Architecture, General Terms
jabara shirin 蛇腹支輪 ✓

Also called honshirin 本支輪 (main shirin). A short, curved, non-supporting transitional member that connects…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
jabaragawa 蛇腹皮

Lit. snake skin. The boards lined up under the thick eave ends nokizuke 軒付 of a cypress bark *…

Architecture, General Terms
jari 砂利

Gravel, small stones, or pebbles. A corrupted form of sazare 細 meaning tiny stones. Jari have been given…

Architecture, General Terms
jidaruki 地垂木

Also called omodaruki 母垂木. A base rafter that extends outward from the roof framework, generally the eave purlin *…

Architecture, General Terms
jien hikaku 地円飛角 ✓

Also read chien hikaku. Double eaves *futanoki 二軒, composed of base…

Architecture, General Terms
jifuku 地覆

1 A sleeper. The lowermost horizontal beam that spans the width of a bay *…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
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.
Architecture, General Terms
jigyō 地業

Also 地形 chikei. The preliminary foundation work on a building. Materials for this include: rubble *…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
jikubu 軸部

The framework or body of a building between the foundation and the roof structure. In traditional architecture it includes…

Architecture, General Terms
jikuzuri 軸吊 ✓

Also written 軸釣, 軸摺. Pivot hinge. A metal covered wooden-core pivot inserted into a socket *…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
jisumigi 地隅木

A base hip rafter found at the corners of a roof. Ordinary rafters *jidaruki…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
jō 畳

Also written 帖.

1 A counter for screens *byōbu 屏風 and…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Art History, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Art History, General Terms
jōsei kidan  上成基壇 ✓

The upper level of a two-stepped podium *nijū kidan 二重基壇. The lower level is…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
ōatsuzai 応圧材

A load-bearing structural member. Refers to any structural element which supports the roof including pillars *…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
ochigakari 落掛

The junction point of a horizontal and diagonal structural member. For example, the point where the bottom of the hip rafter…

Architecture, General Terms
odaruki 尾垂木 ✓

A tail rafter. A large rafter which usually extends through the second step of a 3-stepped bracket complex *…

Architecture, General Terms
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.…

Architecture, General Terms
ogami 拝

Lit. "praying."
1 Structural elements arranged in such a way as to resemble the image of hands joined in…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
oigata taiheizuka 笈形大瓶束 ✓

A bottle strut *taiheizuka 大瓶束, with a sculptural decoration called …

Architecture, General Terms
ōkabe 大壁

A wall which is completely plastered so that the pillars or posts are not visible. This method is common for the…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
okashi おかし

1 Charming, or delightful. An approach to the aesthetic indicating a carefree appreciation of objects and…

Art History, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms, Document
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…

Architecture, General Terms
oku 奥

1 The interior or heart of something. The furthermost, innermost or ultimate space in a sequence of spaces…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
okurito 送斗 ✓

Also called uketo 受斗. A bearing block, longer than but shaped very much like the *…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
ōkyokuzai 応曲材

A general term for structural members that sustain pressure horizontally. Transverse beams *…

Architecture, General Terms
ōma 大間

1 A gate mon 門, with multiple pillars with large intervals between them.
One example is…

Architecture, General Terms
omote 表

Lit. "the front, surface, or exterior of something."
1 The front part of a house and the area around the…

Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
ōmune 大棟

Also *mune 棟, *munagi…

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…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
ōnoki 大軒

Lit. "a big eave." An eave made of long base rafters *jidaruki 地垂木, which is…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
oriage tenjō 折上天井 ✓

A coved ceiling. A ceiling raised by diagonally placed straight timbers *shirin…

Architecture, General Terms
oriokigumi 折置組 ✓

Also orioki 折置. Method of assembly in a building's structural frame. A method of fixing a transverse beam *…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms

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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