| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| kagiya 鍵屋 | Lit. key-shaped house. A widely used term for vernacular houses *minka 民家, of… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kama no kami 釜の神 | A general term for the tutelary deity or deities, kami 神, of the cooking range *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kamado 竈 | Lit. place for the cauldron. Also called kudo くど, fudo ふど, hettsui へっつい, kama かま. … |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kamadogami 竈神 | Also kamagami 釜神. The tutelary deity of the hearth or cooking range *kamado… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kamaotoko 釜男 | Also sometimes written 竃男. Lit. cauldron male. An alternative term for *kamadogami… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kamaya 釜屋 | ✓ | Also written 竈屋. Lit. cooking room. Either refers to a freestanding structure used for cooking, or a part of a vernacular… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| kamayadate 釜屋建て | A particular type of divided roof style *buntōgata 分棟型, where the raised… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kamidaidokoro 上台所 | Lit. upper kitchen.
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Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| kamidana 神棚 | ✓ | An interior shelf *tana 棚, where paper talismans, kamifuda 神札, or… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| kanban 看板 | ✓ | A signboard placed outside or affixed to the front of a commercial premises displaying the name of the shop yagō… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| kannonbiraki tobira 観音開扉 | ✓ | 1 A pair of swing doors *tobira 扉 designed to meet at the… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| karakasadate 傘建て | A structural system found in small-scale, Edo period thatched farmhouses in the area of Shiga Prefecture north of Lake Biwa… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| karasu tobi 烏鳶 | Also written 烏飛び. |
Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings | |
| karasudomari 烏止まり | ✓ | Lit. crow's perch. A widely used term for a range of elements used to decorate the ridge of the roof in vernacular houses *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| karasuodori 烏踊り | Lit. crow dance. A widely used term for a range of elements used to decorate the ridge of the roof in thatched vernacular… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| katte mawari 勝手廻り | A part of a house in the vicinity of the kitchen; *katte 勝手, *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| katte 勝手 | The term is believed to signify a place where one cooks food, kate wo kashigu 糧を炊ぐ, in use since the Kamakura… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses | |
| katteguchi 勝手口 | 1 A service or tradesmen's entry. A house entry that lead to the kitchen; *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses | |
| kawaragushi 瓦櫛 | A tiled ridge on the roofs of thatched vernacular houses *minka 民家 in parts of… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kawarayane-zukuri 瓦屋根造 | A vernacular house *minka 民家 with a tiled roof *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kazaribuki 飾葺 | A decorative type of thatch made from cogon, umikaya 海茅, a tall, coarse grass growing along the coastal… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kazuki 被き | An enclosed room generally equivalent to a bedchamber (see *nando 納戸, *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| keshōdake 化粧竹 | ✓ | Bamboo facing placed close to the eave ends *nokisaki 軒先 of a… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| kijiri 木尻 | 1 One of the seats around the sunken hearth *irori 囲炉裏, in the… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kinezuka 杵束 | Also called tōkyōzuka 東京束. A strut that bulges out at top and bottom. The term is derived from a long-handled… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| Kōjin 荒神 | 1 Also called Kōjinsama 荒神様; Kōjinsan 荒神さん.
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| komayose 駒寄せ | 1 A low fence of latticework *kōshi 格子, construction, used to… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| komise 小店 | Also written 小見世.
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| koshō 胡床 | Also shōgi 床几. A folding chair or a stool. These folding chairs were derived from the chairs used by the Huns (Jp:… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kudo-zukuri 竈造 | A roof style found on vernacular houses *minka 民家 in Saga… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kugurido 潜り戸 | 1 A generic term for a small door, very often a wicket door set into the leaf of another larger door or… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses | |
| kugurimon 潜り門 | 1 A small low gate cut through an earth wall, tsuchibei 土塀, or timber fence *… |
Architecture, Gates, Folk Dwellings | |
| kuriya 厨 | 1 A cooking structure which houses a cooking range *kamado… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| kyōma 京間 | 1 The standard measurement used for bay size in the Kansai 関西 region, along the Inland Sea, along the San'… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| machinami 町並 | Also pronounced chōnami. |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| machiya 町家 | 1 Also written 町屋. One of the two main categories of vernacular house *minka… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| magariya 曲り屋 | ✓ | Also written 曲屋. A farmhouse, nōka 農家, with a room that housed stables *umaya… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| magariya-zukuri 曲屋造 | A general term for farmhouses with an L-shaped plan *magariya 曲り屋 |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| mata-zukuri 股造 | 1 A structural system employing posts called *matabashira 股柱, which… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| matabashira 股柱 | A type of post found in vernacular houses *minka 民家, of the 17th… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| mawarikumiido 回り組井戸 | A well with a particular arrangement of stone sidings for its top and shaft lining. It has four lining elements each of… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| minja みんじゃ | 1 A dialect variant of *mizuya 水屋, used in the Edo period to designate an… |
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| minka 民家 | A general term for vernacular dwellings of the ancient, medieval, or premodern periods, or rebuilt in the style of the… |
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| mise 店 | Also pronounced tana. |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| misedana 見世棚 | Also written 店棚. |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| misedoma 店土間 | The front part of the earthen-floored area *doma 土間, in urban vernacular… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| miseniwa 店庭 | The space outside the front part of the earthern-floored area *doma 土間 of… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| miseoku 店奥 | Lit. "beyond the shop." A term used most commonly in the Kinai 畿内 district and Kii 紀伊 (Wakayama Prefecture), during the Edo… |
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| mizuya 水屋 | ✓ | 1 Also written 水遣, 水谷, 水舎. Also called *daidokoro 台所, *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings |
| monohoshidai 物干し台 | A railed timber platform built on the roofs of urban vernacular houses *machiya… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| monzengō 門前郷 | A type of settlement of lesser officials and servants which developed around the precincts of great shrines and temples… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| monzenmachi 門前町 | Also pronunced monzenchō. A settlement in front of the main gate of a temple (or *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| mukaidaidokoro 向台所 | A second raised-floor area at the lower end *shimote 下手, of… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| munamochibashira 棟持柱 | ✓ | Also osabashira 小狭柱 or futabashira 二柱. A generic name for pillars which rise from the ground to… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| muro 室 | 1 In Japan's earliest compilations, the 8th century Kojiki 古事記 and Nihon shoki 日本書紀, a… |
Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings | |
| mushamado 武者窓 | ✓ | Also bukemado 武家窓, bugyōmado 奉行窓. Edo period windows with heavy vertical lattice bars, used in castle… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings |
| mushiko gōshi 虫籠格子 | Also written 蒸子格子. A type of lattice *kōshi 格子 used on windows… |
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| mushikomado 虫籠窓 | ✓ | A type of window containing a lattice of *mushiko gōshi 虫籠格子, set into the upper part… |
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