| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| Kihakuken 既白軒 | A tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室, at Myōshinji Keishun'in 妙心寺桂春院 in Kyoto.… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kijiri 木尻 | 1 One of the seats around the sunken hearth *irori 囲炉裏, in the… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kikieda 利き枝 | A large and powerful branch which dominates a tree. The kikieda featured in garden design and also in paintings… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kikine 利き根 | A term which refers to the large roots of trees, for example in Kano Eitoku's 狩野永徳 (1543-90) painting, Birds and Flowers… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kikkamon 菊花文 | ✓ | A stylized chrysanthemum pattern derived from the imperial crest used on the pendant *gatō… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| kikkōzumi 亀甲積 | ✓ | Lit. tortoise shell stack. Also called roppōzumi 六法積; or hachi-no-su 蜂の巣 meaning honeycomb or bee hive. An… |
Architecture, Castles |
| kiku 規矩 | Also read sumigane 墨矩; kikujutsu 規矩術; tsubokane 壷矩.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| kikugawara 菊瓦 | ✓ | Also called kikumaru 菊丸, kikumarugawara 菊丸瓦, or kogiku 小菊. A tile decorated with a… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| kikugi 木釘 | A wooden nail. The term applies to dowels, also called joggles *daboso 太ぼぞ, pins kumisen 込栓 or daisen… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| kikuto 菊斗 | ✓ | Sometimes pronounced kikudo; also called onito or onimasu 鬼斗, sumito 隅斗, … |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kikuza 菊座 | Also called *rokuyō 六葉. Lit. chrysanthemum seat. A decorative metal piece… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| 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 | |
| kinin-datami 貴人畳 | Also called tokomaedatami 床前畳. Lit. a nobleman's tatami. A straw mat *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kinin-ishi 貴人石 | Lit. noble's stone. A type of trump stone *yaku-ishi 役石, used… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kininguchi 貴人口 | ✓ | Also kinin agariguchi 貴人上り口. Lit. nobleman's entrance. An entrance made especially for noblemen or other… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| kinkakujigaki 金閣寺垣 | ✓ | Lit. Kinkakuji 金閣寺 style fence. A type of low, bamboo see-through fence *… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| kinranmaki 金襴巻 | ✓ | Lit. gold-brocade wrap. Decorative metal fittings *kazarikanagu 飾金具 and… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| kinsei 近世 | Lit. recent ages. The proto-modern age that includes the Momoyama and Edo periods (1568-1868). During the former period… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kinsei karakusamon 均正唐草文 | ✓ | A perfectly balanced design around a symmetrical central motif. A type of arabesque found on the pendants *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| kinuhada 絹肌 | A generic name for an exceedingly smooth silky texture found on the shoulder, body, and lid of some kettles used for the tea… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kioi 木負 | A flying rafter support. A long horizontal timber or plate placed close to the ends of the base rafters *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kioioroshi 木負卸 | ✓ | A method used to determine the proper width of a veranda. The technique positions the outer edge of the veranda in direct… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kireisabi きれいさび | Lit. refined rusticity. Also written 綺麗寂. An aesthetic ideal of the early 17th century associated with the *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kiri-ishi 切石 | Lit. cut stones. Angular, free cut stones that can be a paved walkway *nobedan… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kiri-ishibashi 切石橋 | Lit. cut stone bridge. A type of stone bridge *ishibashi 石橋,… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kiri-ishijiki 切石敷 | ✓ | Cut paving stones. The stones may be slabs cut freely in any desired shapes. The stone paving laid at Katsura Rikyū 桂離宮 in… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| 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 | |
| kiriage tenjō 切上天井 | A raised ceiling. A ceiling raised by a low wall, straight struts, or vertical or horizontal strips of wood. A ceiling… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kiridoguchi 切戸口 | Also called kirido 切戸, okubyōguchi 臆病口, wasureguchi 忘れ口. A small wicket entrance with a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kiridome 切止 | 1 The end of the handle of a tea scoop *chashaku 茶杓. Various… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kiridōshi 切通 | A road, or entrance, that is constructed by cutting through mountainous or hilly terrain, leaving sharply hewed vertical… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kirigegyo 切懸魚 | Lit. cut bargeboard pendant.
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Architecture, Decorations | |
| kirigishi 切岸 | A man-made, precipitous bank or steep bluff excavated while constructing a road through mountainous terrain *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kirihafu 切破風 | Also kirizuma hafu 切妻破風. A term used for bargeboards *hafu 破風, attached… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kirihikite 切引手 | Also *chiriotoshifusuma 塵落襖. A type of door catch found on a thick,… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kiriko 切子 | 1 A square structural element from which a right angled section cut from each corner. Also called … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kirikomihagi 切込矧ぎ | ✓ | Lit. cut and inserted masonry. A type of stone wall *ishigaki 石垣 construction… |
Architecture, Castles |
| kirikumi 切組 | Also kirikizami 切刻み. The measuring and cutting of all structural members into predetermined forms. Before large… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kirime nageshi 切目長押 | A threshhold tie beam. A penetrating tie beam placed between the sliding door track *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kirimedō 切馬道 | In the 10th to 12th century, an earthen floored passageway that was a continuation of a floored connecting corridor, … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kirimen 切面 | ✓ | Also kiremen. The simple chamfer used on a square post with straight-cut, 45 degrees planed corners. The tool used… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kiriotoshiguchi 切落口 | ✓ | An opening set into the second-story floor of a storehouse *dozō 土蔵 or shop… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kirisasu 切扠首 | 1 A short, diagonal timber which receives the helmet beam kabutogeta 兜桁 on a thatched roof … |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kirishitan dōrō キリシタン灯篭 | Lit. A Christian lantern. A lantern with carved designs of Christian figures were influenced by the early Christians in 16th… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| kiriyokebisashi 霧除廂 | Also called mabisashi 眉廂. A small eave, generally not exceeding 30 cm, that extends from the top of the lintel *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kirizuka 切束 | A short strut centered between a base sill and themiddle rail of a balustrade. | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kirizuma yane 切妻屋根 | ✓ | Also called *ryōsage 両下 or ryōka 両下. One of the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kirizuma-zukuri 切妻造 | ✓ | Also called *ryōsage 両下; iraka-zukuri 甍造. A style of building… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kirizumi 切墨 | A carpenter's term for the ink line drawn on a timber to indicate where it should be cut. The tool used to draw this line is… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kishū-ishi 紀州石 | Lit. Kishū stones. A type of blue stone *ao-ishi 青石, quarried in… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kiso 基礎 | ✓ | The footing or foundation of a building. A generic term for any substructure that bears the weight of a superstructure.… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kissakōmongashi 喫茶敲門瓦子 | Lit. piece of tile knocking against the gate. A handbook on the Sen 千 family, tea ceremony, written by Fujii Iseki 藤井維石 and… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| Kitagomon 北御門 | A group of gates that face north found outside the sacred areas of Ise Jingū 伊勢神宮. With the exception of the outermost fence… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| kitasōmon 北総門 | A general purpose gate on the north side of a compound. |
Architecture, Gates | |
| kitsune gōshi 狐格子 | ✓ | Also kizure gōshi 木連格子; tsumagōshi 妻格子. The latticework that fills the gable pediment, hafu-no… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kitsunedo 狐戸 | A corrupted form for *tsumado 妻戸. Latticework *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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 | |
| kiwaneda 際根太 | Lit. edge joist. A joist set along the bottom edges of posts or pillars to provide a place to attach the ends of floor… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kiwari 木割 | Lit. wood-cutting. Also kikudaki 木砕. A system for measuring out the wooden components to be used in architecture or… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kiyodokoro 清所 | Lit. office of purification. Often synonymous with *kamidaidokoro上台所, *… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| 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 | |
| kizukuri 木造 | 1 The process of working on timber to create the desired structural element. See *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kizuri 木摺 | Wooden slats, placed 2 cm apart, which are attached horizontally to main posts *hashira… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kō-ita 甲板 | A long thick horizontal board placed at the apex of a roof as a cover to protect the uppermost ridge. The board is used… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| ko-ita 小板 | ✓ | 1 The small strip of red pine that is inserted between the end of the firebox and the rear wall, or between… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| koana 小穴 | ✓ | A shallow, narrow groove cut into a pillar, flooring board or other structural element to allow for a secure junction with… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kōbai 勾配 | Incline, slope, or pitch. Applied especially to the incline of the roof, yane kōbai 屋根勾配, in traditional Japanese… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kobari 小梁 | Also kōtsubari or kō-otsubari 甲乙梁. A smaller beam used in conjunction with a large one, ōbari 大梁… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kōbō 工房 | A studio or place of work for artists and craftsmen. Also refers to artists or craftsmen who group together to produce work… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kobushibana 拳鼻 | Lit. a fist nosing.
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Architecture, Decorations | |
| kobusuma 小襖 | The small, opaque, paper-framed sliding doors found on cupboards above or below shelving adjacent to the alcove *… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| kōdō 講堂 | 1 Lecture hall in a Buddhist temple. In the Nara and Heian periods, it was one of the principal buildings… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kodomoe 小巴 | Also called komarugawara 小丸瓦. Eave-end, semi-cylindrical tiles *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| kōetsujigaki 光悦寺垣 | Lit. Kōetsuji fence. Also kōetsugaki 光悦垣. A type of open, woven bamboo fence *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kōfūzō 綱封蔵 | ✓ | Also called *narabigura 双倉 or twin storehouses. A large… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| kogaeri 小返 | ✓ | An inclined plane. Any plane that descends downward on either side of a ridge *mune… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kogaseki 虎臥石 | Lit. lying tiger stone. A type of trump stone *yaku-ishi 役石 placed at… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kōgo-ishi 神篭石 | Ancient castle ruins in Western Japan. Rows of stones arranged on mountain slopes in Kyūshū 九州 and Western Japan, including… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| koguchi 虎口 | Lit. tiger mouth. A castle entrance. An early modern term likening the castle gateway to the tooth and fang of a tiger,… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| koguchi kaidan 木口階段 | ✓ | Steps made of thick, heavy, square, or rectangular timbers cut with their ends exposed. One step is called dangi 段木… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| 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 |
| koguchi 木口 | Also read kiguchi; also ōdanmen 横断面. A timber cut at a right angle across the grain, or the crosscut end… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| koguchiari 木口蟻 | A right-angled dovetail joint used to connect the corners of sills and footings. Its significant feature is that the end of… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| koguchidai-ishi 小口台石 | One of the seven trump stones *nanatsu-ishi 七つ石 used in a *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| koguchimasu 木口斗 | ✓ | A bearing block that is set on a pillar *hashira 柱 or bracket arm *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kogumi gōtenjō 小組格天井 | ✓ | A finely latticed and coffered ceiling. If each coffer has a mesh of small latticework that is the same as the larger… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kogumi 小組 | The grids of small lattice that fill the coffers of a coffered ceiling *gōtenjō… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kōhai 向拝 | ✓ | A roof built over the steps leading up to a temple building. A step canopy. |
Architecture, General Terms |
| koiomote 木表 | 1 The top narrow outer surface of a board cut lengthwise through the center or heartwood jushin 樹心… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kōjigumi 香字組 | Also kō-no-jigumi 香の字組, kō-no-zugumi 香の図組. A design pattern created by the arrangement of the muntins… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Kōjin 荒神 | 1 Also called Kōjinsama 荒神様; Kōjinsan 荒神さん.
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Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kojiri 木尻 | Also written 木後; 鐺. Also called hafujiri 破風尻. The bottom end of a bargeboard *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kojiro 子城 | Lit. child castle. A branch castle. The main castle is called oyajiro 親城 (parent castle). |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kokabe 小壁 | 1 A long, narrow, horizontal wall above the upper non-penetrating tie beams, uchinori nageshi 内法長押… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kōkamon 皇嘉門 | 1 Also called ryūgūmon 竜宮門. A unique type of mausoleum gate *… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| kōkenbashira 後見柱 | Also kyōgenbashira 狂言柱. The pillar located at the junction of the rear seats for stage assistants atoza 後座… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kōkenza 後見座 | The place on a noh stage *nōbutai 能舞台 where the kōken… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kokera-ita 柿板 | Also kokera 柿; koba-ita 木羽板. Also read kaki-ita 柿板.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| kokerabuki 柿葺 | ✓ | A roof covering made with a layer of thin wooden shingles made of cypress. The shingles are about 0.3 cm-0.5 cm thick, 9 cm-… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kokihozo 扱ほぞ | ✓ | Also pronounced kokibozo. Any tenon that gradually narrows toward its outer end. |
Architecture, Joints |
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