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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
kamakebiki 鎌毛引

A double-line marking gauge with an iron handle bent into an L-shape where the marking blade is attached. The iron handle is…

Architecture, Tools
kanazuchi 金槌

A carpenter's hammer with an iron head. It differs from the steel double faced hammer *…

Architecture, Tools
kane-no-te 矩の手

An architecutural element which incorporates a right angle. For example, a corridor with a right angle bend is referred to…

Architecture, Tools
kanejaku 曲尺 ✓

A carpenter's square. It has a long side, about 49 cm, and a short side about 24 cm, and looks like an L shaped ruler. Also…

Architecture, Tools
kanna 鉋

A plane, used to shave away the surface of timber to get a smooth finish. In Japan, where most buildings in pre-Meiji…

Architecture, Tools
kebiki 毛引

A marking gauge. A tool used to draw accurate, straight lines on the surface of timber. The marking blade is fixed to the…

Architecture, Tools
kiri 錐

A gimlet. A tool used to bore holes in timber by rotating the blade tip. Gimlets are divided into three types depending on…

Architecture, Tools
kiwaganna 際鉋

A plane used for shaving and finishing the sides of a mortise or an internal angle. There is a plane for left-side cutting…

Architecture, Tools
kizuchi 木槌

A mallet that is usually made of oak or holly. It is used in cases where a metal hammer such as the *…

Architecture, Tools
kotenomi 鏝鑿

A trowel chisel. A type of paring chisel *tsukinomi 突鑿, with…

Architecture, Tools
sagefuri 下振

Also called shōjiki 正直. A plumb line with a plumb bob, furiko 振子, at the lower end. The plumb bob is a…

Architecture, Tools
shakuzue 尺杖

A rod-like, rectangular piece of wood made of Japanese cedar sugi 杉, or Japanese cypress hinoki 桧, 1.8 to…

Architecture, Tools
shiage ganna 仕上鉋

A special finishing plane. A plane used in the final stage of smoothing wood after the surface has been flattened with the…

Architecture, Tools
sokosarainomi 底渫鑿

Lit. "bottom-cleaning chisel." A chisel designed to clean out the wooden shavings which have accumulated in the base of the…

Architecture, Tools
soridaiganna 反り台鉋 ✓

A plane used for moulding curved, wooden architectural elements such as gable boards or projecting rafters. The sole of the…

Architecture, Tools
sujikebiki 筋毛引

A carpentry gauge used to mark accurate, parallel lines on pillars, door frames and planks, or to accurately redraw the…

Architecture, Tools
suminawa 墨縄

Also known as sumi-ito 墨糸. A carpenter's inking line. It is used for drawing a reference line (the procedure is…

Architecture, Tools
sumisashi 墨刺

Also written 墨芯. A bamboo brush or drawing spatula. The tip of a piece of bamboo is sharpened into a pallet shape and then…

Architecture, Tools
sumitsubo 墨壷

Carpenter's ink pot, or ink pad. The sumitsubo, unlike other carpentry tools, does not have a fixed shape or size.…

Architecture, Tools

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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