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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.

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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.



1 The room or building in which the final stages of food preparation took…

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.

1 A set of fire fighting equipment installed on the roof ridge of an urban…

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.



2 A god that…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
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.



1 A deep covered walkway *hisashi…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
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.

1 Streetscape in an urban area. The linear space defined by the…

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…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
minka 民家

A general term for vernacular dwellings of the ancient, medieval, or premodern periods, or rebuilt in the style of the…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
mise 店

Also pronounced tana.

1 Abbreviation of *misedana 見世棚.
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Architecture, Folk Dwellings
misedana 見世棚

Also written 店棚.

1 A small-scale shop in the mediaeval period. Known from the late Heian…

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…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
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…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
mushikomado 虫籠窓 ✓

A type of window containing a lattice of *mushiko gōshi 虫籠格子, set into the upper part…

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