| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| kan'unjoku 寒雲卓 | ✓ | A type of pitcher shelf *mizusashidana 水指棚. A version of… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| kanabakari-zu 矩計図 | Sectional details. Also kanabakari 矩計. A detailed drawing of the specific parts of a structure in a scale larger… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kanagu 金具 | Also kanamono 金物 (metal thing). Metal fittings that are not only functional but often decorative. |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kaname 要 | A term used for the imaginary center point from which fan rafters *ōgidaruki… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kanawa tsugi 金輪継 | ✓ | An oblique, housed (dadoed), rabbeted, T-shaped, half-blind, tenoned scarf joint. Because both the tenon and mortise are… |
Architecture, Joints |
| kanazuchi 金槌 | A carpenter's hammer with an iron head. It differs from the steel double faced hammer *… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| 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 |
| kandachi 神館 | A place for Shinto purification rites, as well as a place for priests to go into seclusion for a set amount of time. |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| 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 | |
| kaneguchi no nuki 鐘口貫 | A penetrating beam *nuki 貫 that is inserted into the structure of a belfry *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kanehō 矩方 | A line running at a right angle to another line, or something that moves at a direction of 90 degrees relative to something… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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 |
| kanekōbai 矩勾配 | The 45 degree pitch of the hypotenuse, the side opposite the right angle, of an isosceles right-angled triangle. A right… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Kangakuin 勧学院 | Also omotemon 表門. The front gate of Shūgenji 宗源寺 a subsidiary temple of Hōryūji 法隆寺. It serves as a place for study… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kangō shūraku 環濠集落 | A settlement surrounded by a moat. The earliest enclosed settlement appeared about 2000 years ago and is associated with the… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kanimendo gawara 蟹面戸瓦 | Also kanimendo 蟹面戸. Lit. crab filler tile. A crab-shaped tile used to cover the gap created by the junction of two… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| kanjōdō 潅頂堂 | Also called kanjōin 潅頂院. The hall used to conduct the ceremony to confer the basic precepts and mystic teachings of… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Kankaimon 歓会門 | The front gate of Shurijō 首里城 in Okinawa Prefecture. It was burned down during World War 2 and rebuilt in 1974. It is an… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| kanmuridana 冠棚 | ✓ | Also called kanmuridai 冠台 or kanmurishoku 冠卓.
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Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings |
| kanmurigawara 冠瓦 | Roof tiles stacked up on the ridge of a temple or castle roof. Also called *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| 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 | |
| kannonbiraki tobira 観音開扉 | ✓ | 1 A pair of swing doors *tobira 扉 designed to meet at the… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| kannondō 観音堂 | ✓ | A Buddhist temple hall dedicated to the Goddess of Mercy *Kannon 観音. Fukushima… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| kannuki 閂 | ✓ | A gate bar. A heavy piece of timber or iron used to affix a plank door to its structure. The kannuki is slipped… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kansha 官社 | 1 Shrines which in the Nara and Heian periods received special government supported status. These shrines… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kanshinjiyō 観心寺様 | A composite style that includes a mixture of architectural elements from the daibutsu style *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kanshūjigata tōrō 勧修寺形灯籠 | A lantern style based on lanterns found in the Heian period Kanshūji or Kajūji 勧修寺 garden in Kyoto. It is low with a large,… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| kansuryō 監寺寮 | One of the administration offices within the priests' living quarters *kuri 庫裡,… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kara yakuimon 唐薬医門 | A richly decorated gate with bracket complexes *tokyō 斗きょう, placed on top… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| karabori 空堀 | ✓ | A dry moat, usually with a V-shaped cross-section called *yagenbori 薬研堀. The… |
Architecture, Castles |
| karadake 唐竹 | Lit. Chinese bamboo. A common type of slender, long-jointed bamboo madake 真竹. It is often used to construct bamboo… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| karado 唐戸 | Either double plank doors *itakarado 板唐戸 in a single opening or paneled… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| karadomen 唐戸面 | ✓ | A molding found on the corners of pillars, sills, etc, often used on paneled doors such as *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| karagaki 唐垣 | Lit. Chinese fence. Also written 韓垣 meaning a Korean fence.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| karahafu gegyo 唐破風懸魚 | A type of bargeboard pendant *gegyo 懸魚 found on a Chinese style… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| karahafu 唐破風 | ✓ | An undulating bargeboard. The shape of a karahafu flows downward from the top center with convex-curves on each… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| karahafu torii 唐破風不鳥居 | ✓ | A unique Shinto gate *torii 鳥居 in Kyoto, called Itsukushima… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| karaishiki 唐居敷 | ✓ | Also pronounced karaijiki. An abbreviationof kara-ishishiki 唐石敷.
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Architecture, General Terms |
| karakami shōji 唐紙障子 | Also called *karakami 唐紙. A term used in the late 19th century for opaque… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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 | |
| karaki 唐木 | Also pronounced tōboku; also meiboku 銘木. Timber from the tropics including red sandalwood (rosewood… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| karakusagawara 唐草瓦 | Lit. arabesque roof tile. Also *hanahiragawara 端平瓦.
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Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| karametemon 搦手門 | Also karameteguchi 搦手口. Term used for the rear gate of a castle from the medieval period onward. Term used in… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| karamon 唐門 | ✓ | Also read karakado. A generic term for a gate with undulating bargeboards *… |
Architecture, Gates |
| 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 |
| karasugami 烏紙 | Lit. crow paper. Very black paper used under straw mats *tatami 畳. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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 | |
| karayō-no-niwa 唐様の庭 | Lit. Chinese style garden. A general and problematic term used to distinguish gardens with an exotic continental flavor from… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kareike 枯池 | Lit. dry pond. A symbolic pond made with rocks, pebbles, and white sand instead of water. Along with the more common dry… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| karenagare 枯流 | ✓ | Lit. dry stream. A common garden element construction in dry landscape *karesansui… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| karesansui gogan 枯山水護岸 | Lit. dry landscape revetment. The technique of arranging stones to suggest the bank gogan 護岸 of a dry pond or… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| karesansui 枯山水 | ✓ | Lit. dry landscape. A common type of garden which suggests mountains and water using only stones, sand or gravel and,… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| karetaki 枯滝 | Lit. dry waterfall. A common technique in dry landscape *karesansui … |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kariden 仮殿 | Also karidono. A temporary shrine building to which a deity is transferred while the main sanctuary *… | Architecture, Shrines | |
| karigasumi 雁霞 | ✓ | A pattern used for muntins *kumiko 組子. It is thought to resemble… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| karikomi 刈込 | Lit. pruning. The term refers to the clipped hedge or clipped plants common in Japanese gardens. Karikomi is… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| karimata gegyo 雁股懸魚 | ✓ | Lit. double-headed-arrow gable pendant. A gable pendant *gegyo 懸魚 with a tip… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| kasa-ishi 笠石 | Coping stones. A finish on the tops of fences and stone walls to protect them from weathering. Also used on the tops of the… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kasa-ita 笠板 | 1 A crowning board. Similar to the lid placed at the top of storage boxes for rain shutters *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kasa 笠 | Lit.umbrella. The part of a stone lantern ishidōrō 石灯籠 that acts as an umbrella over the fire box *… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| kasagawara 笠瓦 | Coping tiles. Tiles used to cover the top of a fence or wall to prevent weathering. The fences may be made of wood, bamboo… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| kasagi 笠木 | Also written 葢木 or 衡木; also *kabuki 冠木.
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Architecture, Shrines | |
| kasan 仮山 | Lit. artificial mountain. Also read kazan, or kasansui 仮山水. A general term referring to an artificial… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kasane izutsu 重井筒 | A pattern formed by interweaving the strokes ofthe character 井 'i ' meaning 'well'. |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kasane-umadashi 重馬出 | Multiple barriers *umadashi 馬出, erected or naturally occurring… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kasane 重ね | 1 The area where members such as siding boards shitami-ita 下見板 (see *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kasanezaka 重坂 | Also read kasanarizaka. A type of warrior run *mushabashiri… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kasatōba 笠塔婆 | ✓ | Also called kasasotōba 笠卒都婆. A memorial or grave stone. The most common has a square shaft *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| kashigidono 炊殿 | Also mikashigidono 御炊殿
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Architecture, Shrines | |
| kashii-zukuri 香椎造 | A style of building used for the sanctuary *honden 本殿, at a… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| kashima torii 鹿島鳥居 | ✓ | Shinmei type pillars *shinmei torii 神明鳥居,… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| kashiranageshi 頭長押 | A horizontal, non-penetrating head beam nailed along the outside and inside of the top face of pillars. If the nails show,… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kashiranuki 頭貫 | ✓ | Horizontal head penetrating tie beams that are connected to the tops of pillars to make them secure. These tie beams may be… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kasuga torii 春日鳥居 | ✓ | A shinmei type of shrine gate *shinmeitorii 神明鳥居. The two… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| kasuga-zukuri 春日造 | A style of shrine architecture employed in main sanctuaries *honden … |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| kasugai 鎹 | ✓ | A cleat. A strip of metal or wood driven into two members to hold them together securely. A metal cleat that is bent at each… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kasumi 霞 | ✓ | 1 A pattern representing mist, often stylized into shapes like the ideographs 工 or 王. It is used as a… |
Architecture, General Terms, Art History, Painting |
| kasumidoko 霞床 | Also kasumidoko-no-seki 霞床の席. An alcove *tokonoma 床の間, with… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kata-ita 形板 | Also written 型板. A template. Boards cut with designs that can be traced onto members that require moldings. For example, the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kata 肩 | 1 Lit. shoulder. The shoulder of a tea ceremony tea caddy or tea jar *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| katabiki shōji 片引障子 | ✓ | Also katahiki shōji. A single, horizontally sliding translucent screen *shōji… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| katabikido 片引戸 | Lit. one-way pull door. A single leaf sliding door that is pulled left and right to open and close. There are two sliding… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| katabiraki 片開 | Lit. single swinging door. A rotating door katabirakido 片開戸, or window katabirakimado 片開窓, that… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| katamen-zukuri 片面造 | A construction method that uses half brackets on top of the corners in the inner worship sanctuary *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| katanagare 片流 | Also *nagare 流. The slope, in one direction, of one side of a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| katanagareyō 片流様 | An oblong island created in a garden pond. Although it is a fabrication, its appearance seems genuine due to the natural… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| katanaka 片中 | A common abbreviation for katanakazumi 片中隅. The point that indicates 1/4 of the entire length of a structural… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| katanakake 刀掛 | ✓ | A single or double rack usually found at the outside left of a tea house entrance to hold the swords of warriors. Part of… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| katanakake-ishi 刀掛石 | Lit. sword rack stone. The trump stone *yaku-ishi 役石 set in… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kataorido 片折戸 | A folding door that is hinged to a single gate post. When the leaf attached to the gate post is pulled closed, the folding… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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 *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| katōgaki 火灯垣 | Lit. flame fence. A type of fence with an ogee-arched entrance. See *katō 火灯… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| katōguchi 火灯口 | Also written 花頭口, 火頭口, 華頭口. Also called *sadōguchi 茶道口 or *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| katōmado 火灯窓 | ✓ | Also written 花頭窓. A synonym for genjimado 源氏窓. The name is derived from the window in the room called Genji-no-ma… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| katsuogi 堅魚木 | ✓ | Also written 鰹木, 勝男木, 葛緒木. Also called kasoegi 斗木. Wooden billets placed atop and at right angle to a roof ridge,… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| katsura 葛 | The building material, such as rough or dressed stone, that forms the horizontal edge of a podium *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| katsura-ishi 葛石 | Also pronounced kazura-ishi; also written 桂石.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| katsuragaki 桂垣 | The bamboo fence that surrounds the Katsura Rikyū 桂離宮 in Kyoto. The fence it is widely imitated today. At given intervals… |
Architecture, Gardens |
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