| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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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… |
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| kakikomi 欠込 | ✓ | Also pronounced kakikomu; watarikakitsugi 渡欠継. Also written kakikomu 缺込む in old sources. One of… |
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| kakitsugi 欠継 | A scarf joint used to join two timber members together to form one continuous piece. |
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| 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… |
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| kakushiaridome 隠蟻留 | ✓ | Lit. a hidden mitered dovetail joint, or blind mitered dovetail joint. Also called kakushiarigata kumitsugi 隠蟻形組接… |
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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… |
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| kanawa tsugi 金輪継 | ✓ | An oblique, housed (dadoed), rabbeted, T-shaped, half-blind, tenoned scarf joint. Because both the tenon and mortise are… |
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| kerakubi 螻首 | 1 A tenon *hozo ほぞ and mortise *… |
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| kikugi 木釘 | A wooden nail. The term applies to dowels, also called joggles *daboso 太ぼぞ, pins kumisen 込栓 or daisen… |
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| 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… |
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| kokihozo 扱ほぞ | ✓ | Also pronounced kokibozo. Any tenon that gradually narrows toward its outer end. |
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| konehozo 小根ほぞ | ✓ | An angle joint *shiguchi 仕口 with a rabbeted tenon *… |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| koshikake 腰掛 | Lit. Lap or bench. A basic part of many joints. Although similar to the *aigaki… |
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| koshikaketsugi 腰掛継 | Also *koshi 腰; kasanetsugi 重継. Lit. seat joint. A simple… |
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| 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… |
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| kusabi 楔 | ✓ | A wedge. Easily identified by its isosceles triangle shape. Its two main sides slant from its relatively wide top to a very… |
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| 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 *… |
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| saobiki dokko 竿引独鈷 | ✓ | A long, lapped, rod-type tenon cut in the end of a rainbow beam *kōryō 虹梁, or… |
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| saobuchi 竿縁 | A batten used to make a board and batten ceiling *saobuchi tenjō 竿縁天井.… |
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| 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… |
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| sashikomihozo 差込ほぞ | A generic term meaning to insert, usually a tenon *hozo ほぞ into a mortise *… |
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| 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… |
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| shakushi hozo 杓子ほぞ | ✓ | Lit. "dipper or ladle tenon." A flat tenon *hozo ほぞ that is attached to the end… |
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| shiguchi 仕口 | An angled joint. There are two general types of shiguchi. |
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| shihō ari 四方蟻 | ✓ | A dovetail splicing joint *aritsugi 蟻継, made in such way that the dovetails… |
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| shikimen 敷面 | ✓ | Also called *koshikake 腰掛. |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| shitaki 下木 | ✓ | Also pronounced shitagi or kaboku. The lower of two or more joined timbers. Shitaki is the… |
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| 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… |
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| sogitsugi 殺継 | ✓ | Also called suberihatsugi 滑刃継; hauchitsugi 羽打継. A scarf joint. A simple butt joint made stronger by… |
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| suitsuki arizan 吸付蟻桟 | ✓ | Also arizan 蟻桟, suitsukizan 吸付桟, or suitsukiari 吸付蟻. A long, narrow dovetail tenon *… |
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