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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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| raigō-bashira 来迎柱 | Two or four-circular pillars right and left at each corner of the Buddhist altar to define the most sacred place in a temple… |
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| raigō-kabe 来迎壁 | ✓ | Also called raigō-heki. A clay or wooden wall erected behind a Buddhist altar *… |
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| raimon kōshi 雷文格子 | Lattice arranged in a fret pattern, used especially on railings of balconies. |
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| ranma 欄間 | ✓ | A transom. A rectangular opening, longer in the horizontal direction, constructed between the lintels *… |
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| ranseki 乱石 | ✓ | Also called no-ishizumi 野石積. Stones with an irregular shape. Those that are somewhat square are called nozura-… |
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| ransekizumi kidan 乱石積基壇 | Also referred to as ranzumi kidan 乱積基壇, ranzō ransekizumi 乱層乱石積, kuzure ishizumi くずれ石積 or simply… |
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| ranzumi 乱積 | Also called *ransekizumi 乱石積, waraizumi 笑い積. Randomly piled natural stones *… |
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| renjimado 連子窓 | Also written 櫺子窓. Lit. "a row lath window." |
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| rensō 連窓 | Multiple windows. Two or more windows connected horizontally, or windows connected within one frame window with vertical… |
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| rensōmado 連双窓 | ✓ | Rensōmado means double windows. Two windows in line. Also called *meotomado… |
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| rō 廊 | A roofed corridor or passageway that connects one structure to another. It may also encompass an open area. There are… |
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| ro 炉 | ✓ | A sunken hearth. A square box installed into the floor of a tea ceremony room to make a charcoal fire. The standard size… |
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| rō-zukuri 楼造 | ✓ | A gate *rōmon 楼門, that appears to have two stories, but in reality is a high… |
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| roban 露盤 | ✓ | Commonly used abbreviation of shō roban 承露盤; also called masugata 枡形. Originally, an entire spire *… |
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| rodai 露台 | ✓ | 1 An unroofed platform, a dais, or a projected veranda or balcony. |
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| rōka 廊下 | 1 A hallwayor corridor within a building giving access to various rooms. |
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| roku 陸 | Also riku. A synonym for suihei 水平 meaning level. |
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| rokuchū-zukuri 六注造 | Also called rokkaku yane 六角屋根. A six-sided roof that covers an hexagonal building *… |
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| rōkyō 廊橋 | Also called hashirō 橋廊. A covered bridge, often with a resting place at the central point. Rōkyō can… |
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| ronji daruki 論治垂木 | Also called koshikake daruki 腰掛垂木, ranji daruki 鸞翅垂木, or tenbō daruki 天望垂木. |
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| ryōbiraki 両開 | Also *kannonbiraki tobira 観音開扉, double doors that open in one… |
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| ryōkusabi 両楔 | Wedges used on the right and left sides to strengthen and to secure a penetrating tie beam inserted into a pillar. |
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| ryōsage 両下 | A type of gable roof *kirizuma-zukuri 切妻造. Also called… |
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| ryūsha 竜車 | Lit. "dragon vehicle." The round or oval section of a pagoda finial *sōrin… |
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| ryūyōdana 柳葉棚 | ✓ | Lit. "willow leaf shelf." |
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