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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
kamidaidokoro 上台所

Lit. upper kitchen.



1 The room or building in which the final stages of food preparation took…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
kanmuridana 冠棚 ✓

Also called kanmuridai 冠台 or kanmurishoku 冠卓.



1 A light shelf of unusual…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
kiyodokoro 清所

Lit. office of purification. Often synonymous with *kamidaidokoro上台所, *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
kobusuma 小襖

The small, opaque, paper-framed sliding doors found on cupboards above or below shelving adjacent to the alcove *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
kuriya 厨

1 A cooking structure which houses a cooking range *kamado…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
kusa-no-ma 草の間

A passage used by grooms in *shoin 書院 style stables *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
yanagidana 柳棚

Lit. "willow shelf." An asymmetrical arrangement of three decorative shelves tokowakidana 床脇棚 arranged in the…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
yokoza 横座

1 The seat of the principal and most honored guest sonsha 尊者 at formal banquets in the shinden…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
yorikimado 与力窓 ✓

1 A rectangular window used in exterior walls, fitted with thick horizontal timber bars *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
yūgiridana 夕霧棚

An arrangement of three staggered shelves in the upper half of the recess *tokowaki…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings

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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