| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| kōkishiki karesansui 後期式枯山水 | Lit. late style dry landscape. A type of dry garden *karesansui 枯山水… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kokoboshi shiki-ishi 小零し敷石 | Lit. small scattered paving stones. A type of round-stone paving *tama-ishijiki… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| koma 小間 | A small tea ceremony room, from two to four and a half mats in size, which best encompasses the characteristics of the… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| komachideragata tōrō 小町寺形灯籠 | A six-sided lantern type found at Fudarakuji 補陀洛寺 in Kyoto. |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| komai 小舞 | ✓ | Also written 木舞. In the Shōsōin Monjo 正倉院文書 it appears as 古麻比 komai and in other old documents as 古万比. The… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| komaiura 小舞裏 | Lit. reverse side lath. The lath placed between the roof sheathing and the rafters *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| komajaku 高麗尺 | An ancient unit of length which was imported from the Korean kingdom of Koguryo (Jp: Kōkuri 高句麗), equivalent to… |
Architecture, Measurement | |
| komasu 小斗 | A generic term for bearing blocks that are smaller than the largest type placed on top of a pillar *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| komayose 駒寄せ | 1 A low fence of latticework *kōshi 格子, construction, used to… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kome-ishi 米石 | Lit. rice stone. A type of granite from modern Nagano and Toyama Prefectures. Also called tsume-ishi 詰石, these… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| komise 小店 | Also written 小見世.
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Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| komochi shōji 子持障子 | Two light wooden frames covered with translucent paper *shōji 障子, usually set… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| komochi yamagata 子持山形 | A decorative pattern consisting of a pair of parallel zig-zag lines, one thick and one thin. |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| Kōmon 閤門 | Also written 閣門. The gates on the inner enclosure of the Imperial Palace, and the small gates on each side of the Daigokuden… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| kōmon 後門 | Lit. rear gate. The best known is found at Kitano Tenmangū 北野天満宮. The gate is an example of *… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| komune-zukuri 小棟造 | A building with a short roof ridge. One example is a hipped roof. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kondō 金堂 | ✓ | Lit. golden hall. The name given to the principal hall housing the most sacred images at Buddhist temples from the Asuka… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| konehozo 小根ほぞ | ✓ | An angle joint *shiguchi 仕口 with a rabbeted tenon *… |
Architecture, Joints |
| kongōsaku 金剛柵 | ✓ | Also kongōgaki 金剛垣. A fence made of vertical stakes with decoratively shaped tops resembling the *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| Konjikidō 金色堂 | Also called Hikaridō 光堂 or Konjikiin 金色院. Lit. Gold colored hall. A small Buddhist edifice at… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| konoki 小軒 | Lit. small or short eave. An eave, konoki, constructed of short rafters called flying rafters *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Konpon chūdō 根本中堂 | Lit. original central hall. The main hall, Kondō 金堂 of Enryakuji 延暦寺 (1640), Shiga Prefecture. A large single storied… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| konrō 軒廊 | Lit. eave corridor. A roofed corridor with open sides. A connecting corridor between two buildings. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| konsei fukugōshiki 混成複合式 | Lit. mixed complex system. A system of combining various architectural members into a unified structure. For example: the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kōraiberi 高麗縁 | ✓ | Also kōraibuchi 高麗縁, monkōraiberi 紋高麗縁. A decorated binding used to make the edge of a straw mat *… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| kōraimon 高麗門 | ✓ | A type of gate, lit. Korean gate. Also formerly called *kabukimon… |
Architecture, Gates |
| kōran 高欄 | ✓ | Also written 鈎欄 or 勾欄, the latter said by some scholars to be the correct characters. But, 高欄 is the more common, popular… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| korō 鼓楼 | ✓ | A small, two-storied structure *rō-zukuri 楼造, in which a drum is suspended in… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| korobashineda 転ばし根太 | Also called umeneda 埋め根太. Sleepers placed directly on the ground or cement floor without using joints or struts.… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| korobi 転 | Lit. incline or inclination. Also called *uchikorobi 内転. The incline of… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kōryō 虹梁 | ✓ | Lit. rainbow beam. A generic term for any curved, transverse tie beam. It is used almost exclusively in temple or shrine… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kōryō kaerumata 虹梁蟇股 | ✓ | A structural framework for a roof that has a gable pediment arranged in a similar structure as the bottle shaped strut … |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kōryō sasugumi 虹梁扠首組 | ✓ | A roof frame constructed with rainbow beams *kōryō 虹梁 that extend… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kōryō taiheizuka 虹梁大瓶束 | ✓ | A structural framework in the gable ends of a roof characterized by the use of bottle struts *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kōryōgata-no-kashiranuki 虹梁形の頭貫 | Also *mizuhiki kōryō 水引虹梁. A head penetrating tie beam *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kōshi 格子 | Latticework or grille. Normally latticework is made of wood and grille made of metal. Both are laid out in a grid. The most… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kōshi irimado 格子入窓 | ✓ | A latticed window with immovable lattice inserted into the window frame. The window is called degōshimado 出格子窓 if… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| koshi 腰 | Lit. hip or haunch.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| koshibari-ita 腰貼板 | Paneling or plain boards used to finish the lower part of a wall. If only the term *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| koshibari 腰貼 | ✓ | Also written 腰張, 腰紙貼. The pasting of paper on the lower part of the clay wall in a tea ceremony room, one piece of which is… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| kōshidai 格子台 | The oldest method used to insert lattice directly into the members of the window opening. The vertical muntins are inserted… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| koshidakashōji 腰高障子 | ✓ | Also called koshidaka akarishōji 腰高明障子, or only koshidaka. A translucent paper-covered sliding screen *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| koshigumi 腰組 | ✓ | A bracket complex, used under the balcony of high gates, beneath the multiple roofs of pagodas and the main roof of two-… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| koshiguruwa 腰郭 | Lit. waist compound. In a mountain castle *yamajiro 山城, a… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| koshiire mechigaitsuki aritsugi 腰入目違付蟻継 | ✓ | A half-lapped, half-blind, tenoned dovetail joint. The indented piece is cut with a bench (hip, koshi 腰), open in… |
Architecture, Joints |
| koshikake aritsugi 腰掛蟻継 | ✓ | A half-lap, dovetailed joint. Also shikimen aritsugi 敷面蟻継, shikimen arihozotsugi 敷面蟻ほぞ継, koshikake… |
Architecture, Joints |
| koshikake kamatsugi 腰掛鎌継 | ✓ | Also shikimen kamatsugi 敷面鎌継. A half-lap, gooseneck tenon joint. An end joint which combines two joints: a half-lap… |
Architecture, Joints |
| koshikake machiai 腰掛待合 | ✓ | A place provided in a tea garden where the mood and expectations of the participants are intensified while they wait until… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| koshikake 腰掛 | Lit. Lap or bench. A basic part of many joints. Although similar to the *aigaki… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| koshikaketsugi 腰掛継 | Also *koshi 腰; kasanetsugi 重継. Lit. seat joint. A simple… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| kōshimado 格子窓 | A latticed window. One type resembles *renjimado 連子窓. The laths are narrower… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| koshimaki doi 腰巻土居 | Also termed koshimaki-ishigaki 腰巻石垣, a waist-bandstone wall. A stone wall built around the lower part of an earthen… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| koshinageshi 腰長押 | A horizontal non-penetrating tie beam *nageshi 長押 positioned below the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| koshinuki 腰貫 | Lit. hip tie beam. Penetrating tie beams placed horizontally slightly below the center of pillars on exterior walls of… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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 | |
| kōshū kurama-ishi 甲州鞍馬石 | Also called shinkurama-ishi 新鞍馬石 and kōshūmikage-ishi 甲州御影石. A type of low quality granite quarried in… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kotenomi 鏝鑿 | A trowel chisel. A type of paring chisel *tsukinomi 突鑿, with… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| kotenshu 小天守 | A small subsidiary tower. When a castle complex has two or more donjons, the largest is called *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kotojigata tōrō 琴柱形灯籠 | A lantern found on the north bank of Kasumigaike 霞が池 in Kenrokuen 兼六園, Ishikawa Prefecture. It is very large, approximately… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| koya aratameguchi 小屋改口 | Also called tenjō aratameguchi 天井改口. Lit. roof structure inspecting entrance. A trapdoor built into a ceiling to… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| koyabari 小屋梁 | Also called rokubari 陸梁. The bottom most transverse tie beam *hari 梁 in… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| koyagumi 小屋組 | ✓ | Roof truss or framework; the frame with diagonal members on either side of a strut *tsuka… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| koyane 小屋根 | Lit. a small roof. A small roof built over a shed or subordinate structure attached to a main building. Examples include a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Koyomibari-no-seki 暦張の席 | Also called Koyomitei 暦亭. The old calendar papers that were pasted to the base of the mud plaster wall of a small… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kōzama 格狭間 | Also written 香狭間, and abbreviated to *sama 狭間. Formerly called *… |
Art History, Sculpture, General Terms, Architecture | |
| kozashiki 小座敷 | Also *koma 小間. Lit. a small room. An old name for a small sized tea ceremony room… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kudabashira 管柱 | Also called daikagurabashira 太神楽柱. Pillars used to build two story structures whereby one pillar is erected on the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kudarigegyo 降懸魚 | Also *ketakakushi 桁隠, ketakakushigegyo 桁隠懸魚, *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kudarimune 降棟 | ✓ | Also called *hira kudarimune 平降棟. A descending ridge *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kudo-zukuri 竈造 | A roof style found on vernacular houses *minka 民家 in Saga… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kugi 釘 | A nail made of metal, wood, or bamboo and shaped according to use. Traditionally, metal kugi are square, … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kugibori 釘彫 | A hole cutout piece bored on the back of a large, thick, non-penetrating tie beam *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kugikakushi 釘隠 | ✓ | An ornament used to conceal the head of a large nail on a pressing tie rail *nageshi… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| kuginukimon 釘貫門 | ✓ | Also kuginuki 釘貫. A roofless gate found at imperial tombs, mansions, and government check points. When the gate has… |
Architecture, Gates |
| 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 | |
| kuguriguchi 潜り口 | A generic term for a small low entrance through which one has to stoop or crawl. Often fitted in a large gate, so people may… |
Architecture, General Terms, 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 | |
| kui 杭 | Also kigui 木杭. Pile. A wooden stake or post driven into the ground. Closely placed round wooden posts, often shaved… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kuichigai 喰違 | Staggered embankments. A castle-wall design where the left and right embankments *doi… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kujū-no-tō 九重塔 | Also pronounced kyūjū-no-tō. A 9-storied pagoda. Kudaradaiji 百済大寺 (6th-7th century) in Nara, and Hōshōji 法勝寺 (Heian… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kumigaki 組垣 | Lit. braided fence. A generic name for fences in which the lattice pieces of the fence are braided. In some cases the bamboo… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kumiire tenjō 組入天井 | Also kumiire 組入 or kumitenjō 組天井.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| kumiizutsu 組井筒 | Lit. arranged well crib. A type of well made of four joined stone blocks. It is also called kakikomi ido 掻込井戸 (… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kumikikkō 組亀甲 | A decorative pattern of interlocking hexagonal shapes with small triangles in the interstices. A variation of the tortoise… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kumiko 組子 | 1 A muntin, mullion, or munnion. The non-structural timber parts set within the stiles *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kumimono-osae 組物押 | A beam set parallel to the eave purlin which functions like a fulcrum to support and absorb the weight of a beam called *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kumimune 組棟 | ✓ | A built-up ridge compound or rows of patterned tiles *munakomigawara… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kumite 組手 | A generic term used in Japanese wood architecture to refer to the joining of one member to another by means of various types… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| kumo gasshōhire 雲合掌鰭 | Lit. cloud principal-rafter fins. A pair of sculpted forms *hire 鰭 in decorative… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kumo shirin 雲支輪 | Also written 雲枝輪. Lit. cloud strut. A type of slanting ceiling strut *shirin 支輪… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kumohijiki 雲肘木 | Kumogata hijiki 雲形肘木. A cloud-patterned bracket arm that is characterized by a somewhat complicated decorative… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kumoto 雲斗 | ✓ | Also pronounced kumomasu or unto. Lit. cloud-shaped bearing block. A bearing block carved with a cloud-… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kumotokyō 雲斗きょう | ✓ | Also called kumogata tokyō 雲形斗きょう or kumogata kumimono 雲形組物. Lit. cloud pattern bracket complex. A… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kumotsudan 供物壇 | The small dais in front of a Buddhist altar on which offerings of boiled rice are placed. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Kundaikan sōchōki 君台観左右帳記 | A single-volume book detailing Chinese objects, particularly tea-ceremony utensils, given to the shogunal family by Ashikaga… |
Architecture, General Terms, Document | |
| kunisakitō 国東塔 | A single-storied, circular pagoda with a pyramidal roof. A type of *hōtō… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kuniyaki 国焼 | Lit. country fired. An expression used by tea masters in the Edo period to refer to ceramic tea caddies *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kunoji-no-ike 九の字の池 | "Pond (shaped like the) character 九," one type of garden pond. It is described in the garden manual Hihon sakuteiden… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kura-zukuri 蔵造 | An alternative term for *dozō-zukuri 土蔵造, the fireproof… |
Architecture, Storehouses | |
| kuraidori 位取 | The process of laying floor boards so that the edges fit snugly together and the top surface is perfectly smooth. Wherever… |
Architecture, General Terms |
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