| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| kagiya 鍵屋 | Lit. key-shaped house. A widely used term for vernacular houses *minka 民家, of… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kama no kami 釜の神 | A general term for the tutelary deity or deities, kami 神, of the cooking range *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kamado 竈 | Lit. place for the cauldron. Also called kudo くど, fudo ふど, hettsui へっつい, kama かま. … |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kamadogami 竈神 | Also kamagami 釜神. The tutelary deity of the hearth or cooking range *kamado… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kamaotoko 釜男 | Also sometimes written 竃男. Lit. cauldron male. An alternative term for *kamadogami… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kamaya 釜屋 | ✓ | Also written 竈屋. Lit. cooking room. Either refers to a freestanding structure used for cooking, or a part of a vernacular… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| kamayadate 釜屋建て | A particular type of divided roof style *buntōgata 分棟型, where the raised… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kamidaidokoro 上台所 | Lit. upper kitchen.
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Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| kamidana 神棚 | ✓ | An interior shelf *tana 棚, where paper talismans, kamifuda 神札, or… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| kanban 看板 | ✓ | A signboard placed outside or affixed to the front of a commercial premises displaying the name of the shop yagō… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| kannonbiraki tobira 観音開扉 | ✓ | 1 A pair of swing doors *tobira 扉 designed to meet at the… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| karakasadate 傘建て | A structural system found in small-scale, Edo period thatched farmhouses in the area of Shiga Prefecture north of Lake Biwa… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| karasu tobi 烏鳶 | Also written 烏飛び. |
Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings | |
| karasudomari 烏止まり | ✓ | Lit. crow's perch. A widely used term for a range of elements used to decorate the ridge of the roof in vernacular houses *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| karasuodori 烏踊り | Lit. crow dance. A widely used term for a range of elements used to decorate the ridge of the roof in thatched vernacular… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| katte mawari 勝手廻り | A part of a house in the vicinity of the kitchen; *katte 勝手, *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| katte 勝手 | The term is believed to signify a place where one cooks food, kate wo kashigu 糧を炊ぐ, in use since the Kamakura… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses | |
| katteguchi 勝手口 | 1 A service or tradesmen's entry. A house entry that lead to the kitchen; *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses | |
| kawaragushi 瓦櫛 | A tiled ridge on the roofs of thatched vernacular houses *minka 民家 in parts of… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kawarayane-zukuri 瓦屋根造 | A vernacular house *minka 民家 with a tiled roof *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kazaribuki 飾葺 | A decorative type of thatch made from cogon, umikaya 海茅, a tall, coarse grass growing along the coastal… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kazuki 被き | An enclosed room generally equivalent to a bedchamber (see *nando 納戸, *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| keshōdake 化粧竹 | ✓ | Bamboo facing placed close to the eave ends *nokisaki 軒先 of a… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| kijiri 木尻 | 1 One of the seats around the sunken hearth *irori 囲炉裏, in the… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kinezuka 杵束 | Also called tōkyōzuka 東京束. A strut that bulges out at top and bottom. The term is derived from a long-handled… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| Kōjin 荒神 | 1 Also called Kōjinsama 荒神様; Kōjinsan 荒神さん.
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Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| komayose 駒寄せ | 1 A low fence of latticework *kōshi 格子, construction, used to… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| komise 小店 | Also written 小見世.
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Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| koshō 胡床 | Also shōgi 床几. A folding chair or a stool. These folding chairs were derived from the chairs used by the Huns (Jp:… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kudo-zukuri 竈造 | A roof style found on vernacular houses *minka 民家 in Saga… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kugurido 潜り戸 | 1 A generic term for a small door, very often a wicket door set into the leaf of another larger door or… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses | |
| kugurimon 潜り門 | 1 A small low gate cut through an earth wall, tsuchibei 土塀, or timber fence *… |
Architecture, Gates, Folk Dwellings | |
| kuriya 厨 | 1 A cooking structure which houses a cooking range *kamado… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| kyōma 京間 | 1 The standard measurement used for bay size in the Kansai 関西 region, along the Inland Sea, along the San'… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| takahei 高塀 | Also pronounced takahe. The gable walls of the central thatched portion kirizuma 切妻 of the roof *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| takahei-zukuri 高塀造り | Also pronounced takahe-zukuri. Lit. "high wall construction." Also called *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| takiguchi 焚口 | The stokehole or stokeholes in the side of a cooking range *kamado 竃. The… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tana 棚 | Shelves. 1 A type of shelf, sometimes with a rack, of which there are many ordinary household… |
Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings | |
| tarukidake 垂木竹 | Bamboo rafters that span from the ridge *munagi 棟木 to the eave ends *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tateana jūkyo 竪穴住居 | A pit dwelling. Generally a house type with a sunken, excavated floor. Houses of this type existed in Japan from the Jōmon… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tateba 立て場 | 1 Small settlements between the larger officially recognized inn towns *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| teppōdoko 鉄砲床 | A term for an alcove or recess of the *oshi-ita 押板 type found in… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tokomise 床見世 | Also written 床店. A small shop *mise 店, or stall, used for retail… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tomobeya 伴部屋 | Also written 供部屋. A room used principally by the servants or attendants tomo 伴, 供 of high ranking visitors both as… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tōriniwa 通り庭 | ✓ | Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsuchido 土戸 | 1 In the Heian and Kamakura periods, a gate in a pise mud wall *tsuiji… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Storehouses | |
| tsuji 辻 | 1 A crossroads or intersection of two roads. See *zushi… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsukabumi 束踏 | 1 An alternative term for the base ridge *jimune 地棟. The base… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsunagibari 繋梁 | Lit. "connecting beam." 1 Also *geyabari 下屋梁. A short… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsuribeya 吊り部屋 | A small upper floor or mezzanine loft space *chūnikai 中二階, usually only about… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsushi nikai 厨子二階 | ✓ | Also read zushi nikai. A loft in the roof space of a single-story vernacular house *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
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