Lit. upper kitchen.

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

Also called kanmuridai 冠台 or kanmurishoku 冠卓.

1　A light shelf of unusual…

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

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

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

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

Also kiriotoshi 切落.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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