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kai no kuchitsugi 貝の口継 ✓

Lit. shell mouth joint. A straight end-to-end joint *tsugite 継手 used for very…

Architecture, Joints
kakikomi 欠込 ✓

Also pronounced kakikomu; watarikakitsugi 渡欠継. Also written kakikomu 缺込む in old sources. One of…

Architecture, Joints
kakitsugi 欠継 A scarf joint used to join two timber members together to form one continuous piece.
Architecture, Joints
kakiuchi 欠打 ✓

A nailed right angled joint made on two crossed structural members by cutting a notch into one timber equal to the width of…

Architecture, Joints
kakushiaridome 隠蟻留 ✓

Lit. a hidden mitered dovetail joint, or blind mitered dovetail joint. Also called kakushiarigata kumitsugi 隠蟻形組接…

Architecture, Joints

kama 鎌
A gooseneck tenon. A tenon cut with a long neck (thought to resemble the neck and elongated head of a goose), blunted on the… Architecture, Joints
kamatsugi 鎌継 ✓

A gooseneck tenon and mortise joint. The mortise is cut into one section, and the tenon, with head and neck a single member…

Architecture, Joints
kanawa tsugi 金輪継 ✓

An oblique, housed (dadoed), rabbeted, T-shaped, half-blind, tenoned scarf joint. Because both the tenon and mortise are…

Architecture, Joints
kerakubi 螻首

1 A tenon *hozo ほぞ and mortise *…

Architecture, Joints
kikugi 木釘

A wooden nail. The term applies to dowels, also called joggles *daboso 太ぼぞ, pins kumisen 込栓 or daisen…

Architecture, Joints
koguchiari 木口蟻

A right-angled dovetail joint used to connect the corners of sills and footings. Its significant feature is that the end of…

Architecture, Joints
kokihozo 扱ほぞ ✓

Also pronounced kokibozo. Any tenon that gradually narrows toward its outer end.

Architecture, Joints
konehozo 小根ほぞ ✓

An angle joint *shiguchi 仕口 with a rabbeted tenon *…

Architecture, Joints
koshiire mechigaitsuki aritsugi 腰入目違付蟻継 ✓

A half-lapped, half-blind, tenoned dovetail joint. The indented piece is cut with a bench (hip, koshi 腰), open in…

Architecture, Joints
koshikake aritsugi 腰掛蟻継 ✓

A half-lap, dovetailed joint. Also shikimen aritsugi 敷面蟻継, shikimen arihozotsugi 敷面蟻ほぞ継, koshikake…

Architecture, Joints
koshikake kamatsugi 腰掛鎌継 ✓

Also shikimen kamatsugi 敷面鎌継. A half-lap, gooseneck tenon joint. An end joint which combines two joints: a half-lap…

Architecture, Joints
koshikake 腰掛

Lit. Lap or bench. A basic part of many joints. Although similar to the *aigaki…

Architecture, Joints
koshikaketsugi 腰掛継

Also *koshi 腰; kasanetsugi 重継. Lit. seat joint. A simple…

Architecture, Joints
kumite 組手

A generic term used in Japanese wood architecture to refer to the joining of one member to another by means of various types…

Architecture, Joints
kusabi 楔 ✓

A wedge. Easily identified by its isosceles triangle shape. Its two main sides slant from its relatively wide top to a very…

Architecture, Joints
samisentsugi 三味線継 ✓

A wooden splicing joint used for a beam. The length of the joint is 3x the height of the beam, and the tenon *…

Architecture, Joints
saobiki dokko 竿引独鈷 ✓

A long, lapped, rod-type tenon cut in the end of a rainbow beam *kōryō 虹梁, or…

Architecture, Joints
saobuchi 竿縁

A batten used to make a board and batten ceiling *saobuchi tenjō 竿縁天井.…

Architecture, Joints
saoshachitsugi 竿車知継 ✓

Also saotsugi 竿継. Joint with long, rather slender tenons called saohozo 竿ほぞ (rod or pole tenons) and…

Architecture, Joints
sashikomihozo 差込ほぞ

A generic term meaning to insert, usually a tenon *hozo ほぞ into a mortise *…

Architecture, Joints
shachi 車知 ✓

An abbreviation of shachisen 車知栓. A draw pin, key, or cotter made of hard wood, usually zelkova or oak. The pin is…

Architecture, Joints
shakushi hozo 杓子ほぞ ✓

Lit. "dipper or ladle tenon." A flat tenon *hozo ほぞ that is attached to the end…

Architecture, Joints
shiguchi 仕口

An angled joint. There are two general types of shiguchi.

1 watashigake shiguchi…

Architecture, Joints
shihō ari 四方蟻 ✓

A dovetail splicing joint *aritsugi 蟻継, made in such way that the dovetails…

Architecture, Joints
shikimen 敷面 ✓

Also called *koshikake 腰掛.
A bench joint. A flat surface in…

Architecture, Joints
shintsugi 真継 ✓

The junction of two lengths of a purlin that are set into the top of a post. The line of the joint is centered to coincide…

Architecture, Joints
shippasami tsugi 尻挟継 ✓

Also called shiribasami tsugi 尻挟継 or obasami tsugi 尾鋏継. A blind, stubbed, housed, rabbeted, oblique, scarf…

Architecture, Joints
shitaki 下木 ✓

Also pronounced shitagi or kaboku. The lower of two or more joined timbers. Shitaki is the…

Architecture, Joints
sogi 殺

A basic bevelled scarf. A timber with a slanted cut, usually at an approximately 30 degree angle. To form a joint, a scarf…

Architecture, Joints
sogitsugi 殺継 ✓

Also called suberihatsugi 滑刃継; hauchitsugi 羽打継. A scarf joint. A simple butt joint made stronger by…

Architecture, Joints
suitsuki arizan 吸付蟻桟 ✓

Also arizan 蟻桟, suitsukizan 吸付桟, or suitsukiari 吸付蟻. A long, narrow dovetail tenon *…

Architecture, Joints

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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