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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
jihiro 地火炉

Also read jikaro.

1 A hearth *ro 炉 excavated in…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
jimune 地棟

A base ridge.

1 A longitudinal timber plate resting upon the principal transverse roof beams *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jinaimachi 寺内町

Also jinaichō. A type of religious township that developed in the Sengoku period in connection mainly with temples…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jiro 地炉

Also *ro 炉

1 A hearth constructed in an earth…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jishin bansho 自身番所

The office or guardroom provided in each city ward *machi 町, in the city of Edo…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jizaikagi 自在鈎 ✓

A pothook. A device that enables a pot nabe 鍋 or tea kettle tetsubin 鉄瓶 to be suspended over a sunken…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses
jōgo zukuri 漏斗造

Also called jōgomune 漏斗棟. A roof-style found on vernacular houses *minka…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jōi 上居

Also written 常居.

1 A principal everyday living room in traditional vernacular houses *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jōya 上屋

Lit. upper house. Principal part of farmhouse structure. The central portion of the cross-section of the structural frame in…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jōyabashira 上屋柱

1 The posts which support the ends of the principal transverse beams *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
jōyageta 上屋桁

The purlins or plates *keta 桁, supported on the main frame posts *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
ochimune-zukuri 落棟造

A design incorporating a projection from a major building with a roof ridge *mune…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
ōdo 大戸 ✓

1  Lit. "great door." Also called *ōdoguchi 大戸口. The door…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
ōdoguchi 大戸口

1 The main entrance to traditional vernacular houses *minka 民家…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
okamabashira 御竃柱

Also written 御釜柱. A pillar which is erected opposite the main central support pillar *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
okami 御上

1 A room that abutted the earth-floored area *doma 土間, at its…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
okiya 置屋

The houses of procurers keeping teams of yūjo 遊女, female entertainers and prostitutes in the authorised pleasure…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
okiyane 置屋根 ✓

The upper roof erected over storehouses, kura 倉, of the *dozō …

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
okuzashiki 奥座敷

1 A general term for the final or innermost room of a *shoin 書院…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
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
omoteya 表屋

A row of urban vernacular buildings *machiya 町家, directly facing the street at…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
omoteya-zukuri 表屋造 ✓

A layout of urban vernacular residences *machiya 町家, found during the Edo…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
oshi-ita 押板

1 A low four-legged table used in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods in upper class priestly and lay…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
oue 御上

1 The wife of a member of the upper classes and her living chambers. The term, used in the Muromachi period…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings

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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