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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
ochimune-zukuri 落棟造

A design incorporating a projection from a major building with a roof ridge *mune…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
ōdo 大戸 ✓

1  Lit. "great door." Also called *ōdoguchi 大戸口. The door…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
ōdoguchi 大戸口

1 The main entrance to traditional vernacular houses *minka 民家…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
okamabashira 御竃柱

Also written 御釜柱. A pillar which is erected opposite the main central support pillar *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
okami 御上

1 A room that abutted the earth-floored area *doma 土間, at its…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
okiya 置屋

The houses of procurers keeping teams of yūjo 遊女, female entertainers and prostitutes in the authorised pleasure…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
okiyane 置屋根 ✓

The upper roof erected over storehouses, kura 倉, of the *dozō …

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
okuzashiki 奥座敷

1 A general term for the final or innermost room of a *shoin 書院…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
omote 表

Lit. "the front, surface, or exterior of something."
1 The front part of a house and the area around the…

Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
omoteya 表屋

A row of urban vernacular buildings *machiya 町家, directly facing the street at…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
omoteya-zukuri 表屋造 ✓

A layout of urban vernacular residences *machiya 町家, found during the Edo…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
oshi-ita 押板

1 A low four-legged table used in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods in upper class priestly and lay…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
oue 御上

1 The wife of a member of the upper classes and her living chambers. The term, used in the Muromachi period…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, 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