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| kabeshiro 壁代 | A type of curtain hung from the upper non-penetrating tie beam, uwanageshi (or kaminageshi ) 上長押 in temple… |
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| kaburagegyo 蕪懸魚 | ✓ | Lit. turnip bargeboard pendant. A gable pendant *gegyo 懸魚 decorated with… |
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| kaeribanaza 反花座 | Abbreviated to *kaeribana 反花. Also soribana 反り花. A… |
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| kagebana sōshoku 懸華装飾 | A festoon. Also fesutun フェストゥーン, hanazuna sōshoku 花網装飾, or sagewa kazari 下げ環飾. A carved or molded… |
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| kaigata gegyo 貝形懸魚 | ✓ | Also kaigashira gegyo 貝頭懸魚. Lit. shell-head gable pendant. A type of decorative gable pendant *… |
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| kakimayu 欠眉 | Also written 缺眉 or 欠き眉. A type of carved molding *kurigata 繰形, widely used in… |
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| kanagu 金具 | Also kanamono 金物 (metal thing). Metal fittings that are not only functional but often decorative. |
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| karahafu gegyo 唐破風懸魚 | A type of bargeboard pendant *gegyo 懸魚 found on a Chinese style… |
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| karigasumi 雁霞 | ✓ | A pattern used for muntins *kumiko 組子. It is thought to resemble… |
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| karimata gegyo 雁股懸魚 | ✓ | Lit. double-headed-arrow gable pendant. A gable pendant *gegyo 懸魚 with a tip… |
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| kasane izutsu 重井筒 | A pattern formed by interweaving the strokes ofthe character 井 'i ' meaning 'well'. |
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| kasane 重ね | 1 The area where members such as siding boards shitami-ita 下見板 (see *… |
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| katō 火灯 | Also written 花頭, 華頭, 架灯. A shape used for windows in Zen style architecture *zenshūyō… |
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| katō kyokusen 火灯曲線 | A specific arrangement of curved lines found on top of an arched window called *… |
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| kazari kanagu 飾金具 | Ornamental metal fittings. Metalwork pieces *kanagu 金具, attached to parts of a… |
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| kebori 毛彫 | ✓ | Hairline engraving. A technique used in metalwork where a design was engraved on a surface in a sequence of fine lines,… |
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| kendomoe 剣巴 | Also pronounced kentomoe. A decorative pattern combining a sword blade, ken 剣, with the swirling heraldic… |
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| kenmayu 剣眉 | A type of molding *kurigata 繰形, carved in a sword shape. It is… |
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| kensaki 剣先 | A geometric pattern based on three joined hexagonal shapes. It closely resembles *… |
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| keshō 化粧 | Refers to the appearance or exposed surface of an architectural structural element. Also a smoothly planed wooden finish as… |
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| ketakakushi 桁隠 | Lit. beam cover. Also *kudarigegyo 降懸魚, ketakakushi… |
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| kikuza 菊座 | Also called *rokuyō 六葉. Lit. chrysanthemum seat. A decorative metal piece… |
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| kinranmaki 金襴巻 | ✓ | Lit. gold-brocade wrap. Decorative metal fittings *kazarikanagu 飾金具 and… |
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| kirigegyo 切懸魚 | Lit. cut bargeboard pendant.
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| kirisasu 切扠首 | 1 A short, diagonal timber which receives the helmet beam kabutogeta 兜桁 on a thatched roof … |
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| kobushibana 拳鼻 | Lit. a fist nosing.
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| koguchi kanagu 木口金具 | ✓ | Also koguchi kanamono 小口金物. A metal fitting placed over the crosscut end of a timber. The fitting on the ends of… |
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| komochi yamagata 子持山形 | A decorative pattern consisting of a pair of parallel zig-zag lines, one thick and one thin. |
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| kōraiberi 高麗縁 | ✓ | Also kōraibuchi 高麗縁, monkōraiberi 紋高麗縁. A decorated binding used to make the edge of a straw mat *… |
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| kudarigegyo 降懸魚 | Also *ketakakushi 桁隠, ketakakushigegyo 桁隠懸魚, *… |
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| kugikakushi 釘隠 | ✓ | An ornament used to conceal the head of a large nail on a pressing tie rail *nageshi… |
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| kumikikkō 組亀甲 | A decorative pattern of interlocking hexagonal shapes with small triangles in the interstices. A variation of the tortoise… |
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| kumo gasshōhire 雲合掌鰭 | Lit. cloud principal-rafter fins. A pair of sculpted forms *hire 鰭 in decorative… |
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| kuri 繰 | Curved designs carved into wood to make moldings *kurigata 繰形. |
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| kurigata 繰形 | Also written 刳形. Incised or molded decoration that appears on the edge of exposed architectural members such as no sings *… |
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| kurinuki kaerumata 刳抜蟇股 | A type of open frog strut honkaerumata 本蟇股, which is cut from a single timber with decorative openwork carvings *… |
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| kushigata ranma 櫛形欄間 | A transom *ranma 欄間, with an arched opening in the shape of a comb *… |
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| kushigata 櫛形 | 1 Lit. Comb shape. A semicircular shape、or part of a semicircle, often with trimmed corners. Used in… |
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| kushigatamado 櫛形窓 | A window in the shape of a comb *kushigata 櫛形. Sometimes built into outside… |
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| kutsumaki 沓巻 | A decorative metal fitting *kanagu 金具, wound around the bottom… |
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| kyō-no-maki 経の巻 | ✓ | Lit. sutra scrolls. Three or five cylindrical tiles found at the top of a lion-mouth roof *… |
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| madokazari 窓飾 | Lit. "window decoration." A thin decoration that is hung around the outer border of a window, over the curtain, to provide… |
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| magatama 曲玉 | 1 Also written 勾玉. A bead with religious significance, introduced to Japan from the Korean peninsula. It is… |
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| makikanagu 巻金具 | U-strap. A コ-shaped metal fitting used to secure wooden joints. |
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| manjitsunagi 万字繋 | ✓ | Also written 満字繋, 卍つなぎ. A pattern *mon'yō 文様, or mullion *… |
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| matsubakuzushi 松葉崩 | A geometric pattern based on stylized pine needles, matsuba 松葉, that is used for muntins *… |
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| matsubatsunagi 松葉繋 | Lit. "connected pine needles." A geometrical pattern used for muntins *kumiko… |
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| matsuedaberi 松江田縁 | Also matsuidaberi 松井田縁. A navy-blue linen binding used to make the edge of a straw mat *… |
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| mayu 眉 | 1 A carved molding *kurigata 繰形, found on the lower edges of… |
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| mayukaki 眉欠き | Also mayujakuri 眉決, mabigaki まびがき. The process of carving *mayu 眉, moldings… |
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| mitsubana gegyo 三花懸魚 | ✓ | Lit. "three-flowered bargeboard pendant." A decorative gable pendant *gegyo… |
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| mitsubana kudarigegyo hiretsuki 三花降懸魚鰭付 | A decorative gable pendant *gegyo 懸魚 covering the ends of purlins in a gable… |
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| mokkōgata ranma 木瓜形欄間 | A transom *ranma 欄間, with openwork *… |
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| munekazari 棟飾り | A generic name for the ornaments added to the ridge of a thatched or wooden roof to protect the roof-ridge, and to symbolize… |
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