| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| jabara 蛇腹 | Lit. snake's belly. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jabara shirin 蛇腹支輪 | ✓ | Also called honshirin 本支輪 (main shirin). A short, curved, non-supporting transitional member that connects… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| 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… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| jabaragawa 蛇腹皮 | Lit. snake skin. The boards lined up under the thick eave ends nokizuke 軒付 of a cypress bark *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jari 砂利 | Gravel, small stones, or pebbles. A corrupted form of sazare 細 meaning tiny stones. Jari have been given… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jibuki 地葺 | The traditional method of laying or setting tiles on the sheathing *noji 野地 of… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| jibukuro 地袋 | ✓ | A small cabinet with sliding doors at the bottom of open, often split-level shelves *… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings |
| jibutsudō 持仏堂 | Also called *butsuma 仏間. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jichinsai 地鎮祭 | Also called chinjisai 鎮地祭; jisai 地祭, jiiwai 地祝, tsuchimatsuri 土祭 or tokoshizume no… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| jidaruki 地垂木 | Also called omodaruki 母垂木. A base rafter that extends outward from the roof framework, generally the eave purlin *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jien hikaku 地円飛角 | ✓ | Also read chien hikaku. Double eaves *futanoki 二軒, composed of base… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| jifuku 地覆 | 1 A sleeper. The lowermost horizontal beam that spans the width of a bay *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jigokuhozo 地獄ほぞ | ✓ | Lit. hell tenon. So named because once it is inserted, it is impossible to withdraw. A blind tenon joint with wedges *… |
Architecture, Joints |
| jigyō 地業 | Also 地形 chikei. The preliminary foundation work on a building. Materials for this include: rubble *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jihiro 地火炉 | Also read jikaro. |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| jikidō 食堂 | Also called saidō 斎堂. A refectory. An independent building on temple grounds where priests and monks had their… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jiku 軸 | 1 A roller used for a hanging scroll *kakemono 掛物 or hand… |
Art History, Painting, Tea Houses, Architecture | |
| 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… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jikubu 軸部 | The framework or body of a building between the foundation and the roof structure. In traditional architecture it includes… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jikukakekugi 軸掛釘 | Also jikukugi 軸釘, kakemonokugi 掛物釘. A hook for hanging scrolls, *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| jikuzuri 軸吊 | ✓ | Also written 軸釣, 軸摺. Pivot hinge. A metal covered wooden-core pivot inserted into a socket *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| 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 | |
| jingūji 神宮寺 | Also called jingoji 神護寺, jingū'in 神宮院, jinganji 神願寺, miyadera 宮寺, or bettōji… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jinja kenchiku 神社建築 | Lit. shrine architecture. The architecture associated with Shinto shrines, including all the shrine buildings, shaden… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| jinja 神社 | ✓ | A generic name for a Shinto shrine. Before World War Two shrines were classified into five categorize: first rank, … |
Architecture, Shrines |
| jinjiro 陣城 | Lit. camp fortress. A temporary fortification constructed on a battlefield or stopping-place by armies on the march, used… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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 | |
| jisumigi 地隅木 | A base hip rafter found at the corners of a roof. Ordinary rafters *jidaruki… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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 |
| 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… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jizōdō 地蔵堂 | ✓ | A temple hall where the Buddhist deity *Jizō 地蔵 (Sk. Ksitigarbha) is… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| jō 畳 | Also written 帖. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jō 丈 | A unit of linear measure that equals 3.03 meters or about 10 feet. Equivalent to 10 shaku 尺. Although the metric… |
Architecture, Measurement | |
| jōdan 上段 | ✓ | A dais or a part of the floor in aristocratic dwellings of the *shoin 書院 style,… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings |
| Jōdo sanmandara 浄土三曼荼羅 | Lit. three Pure Land Mandalas. Traditionally refers to the three most famous types of *… |
Architecture, Iconography | |
| jōdo teien 浄土庭園 | Lit. Pure Land garden. Large pond gardens at Pure Land Buddhist temples which recreate the palatial garden of *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| Jōdodō 浄土堂 | Lit. Pure Land Hall. The main hall of the Shingon 真言 sect temple of Jōdoji 浄土寺 in Hyōgo Prefecture, dedicated to *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| 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… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Jōge nidanshiki teien 上下二段式庭園 | Lit. upper-lower, two-step style garden. A modern term designating a common type of bipartite garden featuring a small pond… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| jōgi 定規 | ✓ | A gauge used to confirm the straightness of structural members. A structural member is placed between the two boards of the… |
Architecture, Tools |
| jōgo zukuri 漏斗造 | Also called jōgomune 漏斗棟. A roof-style found on vernacular houses *minka… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| jōgyōdō 常行堂 | Also called jōgyō sanmaidō 常行三昧堂. A hall where a devotee walks around a statue of the *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jōi 上居 | Also written 常居. |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| jōjōdan 上々段 | ✓ | A relatively small space elevated one step higher than the *jōdan 上段,… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings |
| jōkamachi 城下町 | Lit. town below the castle. A castle town. A town's fortress was located as a rule in a mountain, while the accompanying… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| Jōmeimon 承明門 | ✓ | Also read Shōmeimon, called *Kōmon 閤門. A large, single-storied gate… |
Architecture, Gates |
| jōōgata tōrō 紹鴎形灯籠 | A lantern with a canopy and a square fire holder higuchi 火口 supported below the middle base by a single natural… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| jorinmoku 如鱗杢 | Also 如鱗木, gyorinmoku 魚鱗木. Lit. curly wood-grain. |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| jōsaku 城柵 | 1 A fence around a castle. See *saku 柵. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| jōsei kidan 上成基壇 | ✓ | The upper level of a two-stepped podium *nijū kidan 二重基壇. The lower level is… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| jōshikō ganna 上仕工鉋 | Special finishing plane. A smoothing plane used in the final stages of wood preparation to get a glossy surface on timber,… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| 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 | |
| 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… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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 | |
| jōzadoko 上座床 | Lit. upper seat alcove. Also read kamizadoko. An alcove *tokonoma… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| jū 重 | A story or level of a building, used especially in reference to a pagoda. For example, a *… |
Architecture, Measurement | |
| jūben rengemon 重弁蓮華文 | ✓ | A roof tile style with a lotus pattern with double layered petals. The additional petals are placed between the leaf sprout… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| jūben 重弁 | A layered petal motif with one or more petals superimposed one on top of another. It is found on some pendants *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| jūbō 住房 | The earliest (6th-12th century) Buddhist living quarters for priests' and monks. Arranged outside the sacred area containing… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jūhozo 重ほぞ | ✓ | Also called kasanehozo 重ねほぞ; also ryōhozo 両ほぞ. Lit. a stacked tenon. A tenon with a 2-stepped broad… |
Architecture, Joints |
| Jūjūtō 十重塔 | A unique, ten-story stone pagoda *sekitō 石塔 at Injōji 引接寺(1386) in Kyoto.… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jūkenmon 重圏文 | A pattern composed of concentric circles on a pendant *gatō 瓦当 and parallel… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| jukōgata tōrō 珠光形灯籠 | Also read shukōgata tōrō. Also written shikōgata 四光形. A type of lantern with a gently rounded canopy… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| jūkomon nokihiragawara 重弧文軒平瓦 | ✓ | A pattern of parallel lines decorating the pendant *gatō 瓦当 of a broad,… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| jun'yokoya 順横矢 | Lit. regular side arrow. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| jūsanjū-no-tō 十三重の塔 | ✓ | A thirteen-storied pagoda. The only wooden thirteen-storied pagoda extant is located at Danzan Jinja 談山神社 (1532) in Nara.… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| jūsōmon 重層門 | Lit. a gate of more than one story. Jūsōmon is a gate with a large roof over the entire structure. A balcony,… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| jūyōsoben rengemon 十葉素弁蓮華文 | The decorative pattern of a ten-petalled flower which is used on roof tiles, particularly on round eaves tiles *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| zaimoku 材木 | Timber prepared for construction. | Architecture, General Terms | |
| zakanshiki teien 座観式庭園 | Lit. "seated appreciation style garden." A modern term designating gardens meant to be seen or "appreciated" from a fixed… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| zashiki kazari 座敷飾 | The *zashiki 座敷 is a guest room; its name deriving from that of the mat… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| zashiki 座敷 | ✓ | A generic term for a room covered with straw mats *tatami 畳. In the Heian… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings |
| zashikigura 座敷蔵 | A two-story fireproof structure of the storehouse type *dozō 土蔵 that… |
Architecture, Storehouses | |
| zazen-ishi 座禅石 | Lit. "stone for seated meditation." A large, flat-topped stone which is used for, or thought to be appropriate for… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| Zen'inshiki no niwa 禅院式の庭 | Lit. "Zen 禅 temple style gardens." A modern term designating the various types of gardens associated with Zen sect temples… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| Zendō 禅堂 | ✓ | Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Zendōjigata tōrō 善導寺形灯籠 | Type of lantern found in the garden of Zendōji 善導寺, Kyoto. Six semi-spherical swellings surround the base and have been… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| zenigata mizubachi 銭形水鉢 | Lit. "coin shape water basin." A type of round water basins *chōzubachi 手水鉢… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| zenkishiki karesansui 前期式枯山水 | Lit. "early style dry landscape." The Heian period arrangement of stones in areas with neither a pond nor stream. The 11th-… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| zenmon 前門 | An especially impressive front gate or entry. Examples are *hirakaramon… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| zenpai 前拝 | Old name kizahashi 階 means steps (see *hashi 階). The front steps… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Zenshitsu 禅室 | Sometimes an alternative *Zendō 禅堂. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| zenshūyō 禅宗様 | A style of architecture imported from China during the Song dynasty. It includes the architectural elements that came with… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Zenshūyō kōran 禅宗様高欄 | ✓ | Also called Karayō kōran 唐様高欄. A railing or balustrade *kōran 高欄 with… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| Zenshūyō tokyō 禅宗様斗きょう | ✓ | Also called Karayō tokyō 唐様斗きょう. A Zen style bracket complex. The bracket arms *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| zentei 前庭 | Lit. "front garden." A general term referring to the garden in front of a building. In contrast to the main garden which is… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| zetsu 舌 | ✓ | Lit. "tongue." A thin ornamental molding *kurigata 繰形, carved on the bottom… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| zōbana 象鼻 | ✓ | Also read zōhana. A beam projection or nosing *kibana 木鼻, molded or… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| zōkinzuri 雑巾摺 | ✓ | Also called hōkizuri 掃摺 or zōkindome 雑巾留. A long thin finishing board, similar to a base board, that is… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| zōsaku 雑作 | Also witten 造作. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| zuan 図案 | A rough sketch of a building plan including, floor plans, elevations, the placement of doors and windows, etc. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| zuijinmon 随神門 | Middle gates *chūmon 中門 with statues of Zuijin 随神, shrine guards… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| zushi 厨子 | 1 A miniature shrine in which Buddhist images or rolls of sutras kyō 経 are kept. Reliquary… |
Architecture, General Terms |
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