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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
yakuba 役場

1 The parts of a stone wall such as exterior corners, top surfaces, or openings for drainage where…

Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings
yamatomune 大和棟

An alternative term for a roof style found on Edo period farmhouses nōka 農家, called *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
yanakadake 屋中竹

Also yamadake 屋間竹. The bamboo purlins, about 20-30 cm in circumference, that are placed about 30-36 cm apart over a…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
yokoza 横座

1 The seat of the principal and most honored guest sonsha 尊者 at formal banquets in the shinden…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
yorikimado 与力窓 ✓

1 A rectangular window used in exterior walls, fitted with thick horizontal timber bars *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
yoritsuki 寄付

Also written 寄附.

1 Room immediately inside an entrance to the raised floor zone; *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses
yotsudate 四つ建て

Also *yoritsuki 寄付. A structural system found in farmhouses, nōka 農家, of the Edo…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
yūjoya 遊女屋

The house of a procurer in the pleasure districts *yūkaku 遊廓 of Edo period…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
yūkaku 遊廓

Also written 遊郭. The pleasure district of the early modern Japanese city. The earliest developed example is said to have…

Architecture, 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