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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
kanmuridana 冠棚 ✓

Also called kanmuridai 冠台 or kanmurishoku 冠卓.



1 A light shelf of unusual…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
kiyodokoro 清所

Lit. office of purification. Often synonymous with *kamidaidokoro上台所, *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
kobusuma 小襖

The small, opaque, paper-framed sliding doors found on cupboards above or below shelving adjacent to the alcove *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
kuriya 厨

1 A cooking structure which houses a cooking range *kamado…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
kusa-no-ma 草の間

A passage used by grooms in *shoin 書院 style stables *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
ochima 落間

Also kiriotoshi 切落.

1 A generic term for a floor that is lower than the main floor of a…

Architecture, Aristocratic 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
onari goten 御成御殿

A generic term used from the Muromachi through the Edo periods to indicate facilities provided for the visit of a shogun to…

Architecture, Aristocratic 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
osue 御末

Also written 男末.
1 A writing and service room for servants responsible for household chores in either…

Architecture, Aristocratic 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
oyudono-ue 御湯殿上

A room connected to the *oyudono 御湯殿 where utensils for the emperor's meals were kept.…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
oyudono 御湯殿

1 A north room in the western pent-roof structure *hisashi 廂…

Architecture, Aristocratic 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