| 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 | |
| takahei 高塀 | Also pronounced takahe. The gable walls of the central thatched portion kirizuma 切妻 of the roof *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| takahei-zukuri 高塀造り | Also pronounced takahe-zukuri. Lit. "high wall construction." Also called *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| takiguchi 焚口 | The stokehole or stokeholes in the side of a cooking range *kamado 竃. The… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tana 棚 | Shelves. 1 A type of shelf, sometimes with a rack, of which there are many ordinary household… |
Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings | |
| tarukidake 垂木竹 | Bamboo rafters that span from the ridge *munagi 棟木 to the eave ends *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tateana jūkyo 竪穴住居 | A pit dwelling. Generally a house type with a sunken, excavated floor. Houses of this type existed in Japan from the Jōmon… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tateba 立て場 | 1 Small settlements between the larger officially recognized inn towns *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| teppōdoko 鉄砲床 | A term for an alcove or recess of the *oshi-ita 押板 type found in… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tokomise 床見世 | Also written 床店. A small shop *mise 店, or stall, used for retail… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tomobeya 伴部屋 | Also written 供部屋. A room used principally by the servants or attendants tomo 伴, 供 of high ranking visitors both as… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tōriniwa 通り庭 | ✓ | Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsuchido 土戸 | 1 In the Heian and Kamakura periods, a gate in a pise mud wall *tsuiji… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Storehouses | |
| tsuji 辻 | 1 A crossroads or intersection of two roads. See *zushi… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsukabumi 束踏 | 1 An alternative term for the base ridge *jimune 地棟. The base… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsunagibari 繋梁 | Lit. "connecting beam." 1 Also *geyabari 下屋梁. A short… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsuribeya 吊り部屋 | A small upper floor or mezzanine loft space *chūnikai 中二階, usually only about… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsushi nikai 厨子二階 | ✓ | Also read zushi nikai. A loft in the roof space of a single-story vernacular house *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
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