| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| jihiro 地火炉 | Also read jikaro. |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| jimune 地棟 | A base ridge. |
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 |
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. |
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." |
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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