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| kabeshiro 壁代 | A type of curtain hung from the upper non-penetrating tie beam, uwanageshi (or kaminageshi ) 上長押 in temple… |
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| kaburagegyo 蕪懸魚 | ✓ | Lit. turnip bargeboard pendant. A gable pendant *gegyo 懸魚 decorated with… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| kaeribanaza 反花座 | Abbreviated to *kaeribana 反花. Also soribana 反り花. A… |
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| kagebana sōshoku 懸華装飾 | A festoon. Also fesutun フェストゥーン, hanazuna sōshoku 花網装飾, or sagewa kazari 下げ環飾. A carved or molded… |
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| kaigata gegyo 貝形懸魚 | ✓ | Also kaigashira gegyo 貝頭懸魚. Lit. shell-head gable pendant. A type of decorative gable pendant *… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| kakimayu 欠眉 | Also written 缺眉 or 欠き眉. A type of carved molding *kurigata 繰形, widely used in… |
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| kanagu 金具 | Also kanamono 金物 (metal thing). Metal fittings that are not only functional but often decorative. |
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| karahafu gegyo 唐破風懸魚 | A type of bargeboard pendant *gegyo 懸魚 found on a Chinese style… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| karigasumi 雁霞 | ✓ | A pattern used for muntins *kumiko 組子. It is thought to resemble… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| karimata gegyo 雁股懸魚 | ✓ | Lit. double-headed-arrow gable pendant. A gable pendant *gegyo 懸魚 with a tip… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| kasane izutsu 重井筒 | A pattern formed by interweaving the strokes ofthe character 井 'i ' meaning 'well'. |
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| kasane 重ね | 1 The area where members such as siding boards shitami-ita 下見板 (see *… |
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| katō 火灯 | Also written 花頭, 華頭, 架灯. A shape used for windows in Zen style architecture *zenshūyō… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| katō kyokusen 火灯曲線 | A specific arrangement of curved lines found on top of an arched window called *… |
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| kazari kanagu 飾金具 | Ornamental metal fittings. Metalwork pieces *kanagu 金具, attached to parts of a… |
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| kebori 毛彫 | ✓ | Hairline engraving. A technique used in metalwork where a design was engraved on a surface in a sequence of fine lines,… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| kendomoe 剣巴 | Also pronounced kentomoe. A decorative pattern combining a sword blade, ken 剣, with the swirling heraldic… |
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| kenmayu 剣眉 | A type of molding *kurigata 繰形, carved in a sword shape. It is… |
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| kensaki 剣先 | A geometric pattern based on three joined hexagonal shapes. It closely resembles *… |
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| keshō 化粧 | Refers to the appearance or exposed surface of an architectural structural element. Also a smoothly planed wooden finish as… |
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| ketakakushi 桁隠 | Lit. beam cover. Also *kudarigegyo 降懸魚, ketakakushi… |
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| kikuza 菊座 | Also called *rokuyō 六葉. Lit. chrysanthemum seat. A decorative metal piece… |
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| kinranmaki 金襴巻 | ✓ | Lit. gold-brocade wrap. Decorative metal fittings *kazarikanagu 飾金具 and… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| kirigegyo 切懸魚 | Lit. cut bargeboard pendant.
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| kirisasu 切扠首 | 1 A short, diagonal timber which receives the helmet beam kabutogeta 兜桁 on a thatched roof … |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kobushibana 拳鼻 | Lit. a fist nosing.
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| koguchi kanagu 木口金具 | ✓ | Also koguchi kanamono 小口金物. A metal fitting placed over the crosscut end of a timber. The fitting on the ends of… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| komochi yamagata 子持山形 | A decorative pattern consisting of a pair of parallel zig-zag lines, one thick and one thin. |
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| kōraiberi 高麗縁 | ✓ | Also kōraibuchi 高麗縁, monkōraiberi 紋高麗縁. A decorated binding used to make the edge of a straw mat *… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| kudarigegyo 降懸魚 | Also *ketakakushi 桁隠, ketakakushigegyo 桁隠懸魚, *… |
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| kugikakushi 釘隠 | ✓ | An ornament used to conceal the head of a large nail on a pressing tie rail *nageshi… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| kumikikkō 組亀甲 | A decorative pattern of interlocking hexagonal shapes with small triangles in the interstices. A variation of the tortoise… |
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| kumo gasshōhire 雲合掌鰭 | Lit. cloud principal-rafter fins. A pair of sculpted forms *hire 鰭 in decorative… |
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| kuri 繰 | Curved designs carved into wood to make moldings *kurigata 繰形. |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kurigata 繰形 | Also written 刳形. Incised or molded decoration that appears on the edge of exposed architectural members such as no sings *… |
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| kurinuki kaerumata 刳抜蟇股 | A type of open frog strut honkaerumata 本蟇股, which is cut from a single timber with decorative openwork carvings *… |
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| kushigata ranma 櫛形欄間 | A transom *ranma 欄間, with an arched opening in the shape of a comb *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kushigata 櫛形 | 1 Lit. Comb shape. A semicircular shape、or part of a semicircle, often with trimmed corners. Used in… |
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| kushigatamado 櫛形窓 | A window in the shape of a comb *kushigata 櫛形. Sometimes built into outside… |
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| kutsumaki 沓巻 | A decorative metal fitting *kanagu 金具, wound around the bottom… |
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| kyō-no-maki 経の巻 | ✓ | Lit. sutra scrolls. Three or five cylindrical tiles found at the top of a lion-mouth roof *… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| sagiashi 鷺足 | Also sagi-no-ashi. Lit. "heron's leg." A type of long, curved leg found on a Chinese style desk, tōzukue… |
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| sakakibashira 逆木柱 | ✓ | Also sakabashira 逆柱 or sakasabashira 逆さ柱. Lit. "upside down pillar." |
Architecture, Decorations |
| samidare 五月雨 | Lit. "fifth month rain." A geometric pattern used for fretwork muntins. The design is inspired by early summer rain, … |
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| san'yō 三葉 | Lit. "three leaves." A decorative pattern carved into the shape of three leaves; used particularly for metal fittings found… |
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| sannojikuzushi 三の字崩 | ✓ | A type of decorative pattern used for muntins on transoms *ranma 欄間. The design… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| sasaguri 笹繰 | Concave curves carved out of the upper surface of the bracket arms *hijiki… |
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| sasakanamono 笹金物 | ✓ | Lit. "bamboo-grass metal fitting." A long, narrow, metal fitting *kanagu 金具,… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| sayagata 紗綾形 | ✓ | A design pattern of interlocking swastikas, manji 万字 (卍). Most sources agree that the term (a contraction of sa… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| seifun 正吻 | ✓ | Also shifun 蚩吻. A decoration in the shape of a fictional animal found at each end of a main roof-ridge *… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| seigaiha 青海波 | ✓ | 1 Also pronounced seikaiha. A wave design made of the arches of concentric circles superimposed… |
Art History, Painting, Decorations, Architecture |
| senjōmon 線条文 | Lit. "line pattern." A design pattern found on a slanting strut *shirin 支輪,… |
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| shakudō 赤銅 | Lit. "gold bronze." Ornamental metal fittings *kazari kanagu … |
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| shakujōbori 錫杖彫 | ✓ | Also shakujōbori 釈杖彫, yuengata 油煙形. A type of decorative carving *… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| shibi 鴟尾 | ✓ | Also written 鵄尾, 蚩尾, 鮪; also called tobi-no-o 鴟の尾, kutsugata 沓形 (shoes tile) because it is thought to… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| shichiyō 七葉 | Lit. "seven leaves." A decoration in the shape of seven petals, used on a gable pendant *… |
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| shide 四出 | A decorative motif that is characterized by a central flower pattern surrounded by either a flower or leaf pattern that is… |
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| shikami 顰 | ✓ | An abbreviation for *shikamibori 顰彫. Formerly also written shikami… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| shikamibori 顰彫 | Often abbreviated as *shikami 顰. The gouged-out or indented part… |
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| shiken ikka 四間一花 | Also ikka shiken 一花四間. A type of decorative flower pattern painted on coffered ceilings. Coffers *… |
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| shiracha-iro 白茶色 | Lit. "white-brown color." Also shiracha 白茶. A light brown color. |
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| shiratsuchi-nuri 白土塗 | To paint a surface with plaster *shikkui 漆喰 or a plastered… |
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| shishibana 獅子鼻 | ✓ | A style of nosing *kibana 木鼻 carved to resemble the head and… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| shiyō 四葉 | ✓ | Lit. "four leaves." Abbreviation of *shiyōza 四葉座. A decorative pattern carved… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| shiyōza 四葉座 | ✓ | Also read yotsubaza. A metal nailhead cover *kugikakushi 釘隠 with… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| shōgon 荘厳 | The ornamentation of a Buddhist hall. A Buddhist statue made in a dignified and beautiful style by adding features such as a… |
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| sudarezama 簾狭間 | Also sudaresama. A transom *ranma 欄間, with openwork… |
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| sukashi kaerumata 透蟇股 | ✓ | Also called *kurinuki kaerumata 刳抜蟇股. A frog-leg strut that is… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| sutemayu 捨眉 | A type of molding *kurigata 繰形 incised on the lower edge of a… |
Architecture, Decorations |
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