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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
kōzama 格狭間

Also written 香狭間, and abbreviated to *sama 狭間. Formerly called *…

Art History, Sculpture, General Terms, Architecture
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
Kudara 百済

Korean: Paekche. One of the states in the Three Kingdoms period (Jp: Sangoku jidai 三国時代) of early Korean history, and…

Art History, General Terms
kudarimune 降棟 ✓

Also called *hira kudarimune 平降棟. A descending ridge *…

Architecture, General Terms
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
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
kumiire tenjō 組入天井

Also kumiire 組入 or kumitenjō 組天井.



1 A latticed ceiling. Heavy,…

Architecture, General Terms
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
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
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
kure 榑

Also called se-ita 背板. A roof board that is cut along the annual rings nenrin 年輪 of a tree trunk. Such…

Architecture, General Terms
kurin 九輪 ✓

Also kūrin 空輪, hōrin 宝輪. A part of the finial on top of a pagoda. Usually nine metal rings are attached to…

Architecture, General Terms
kuroki 黒木

Unstripped or unbarked timber. A log which is cut so that the bark is left intact. Small unbarked logs, left in their…

Architecture, General Terms
kururu 枢

Also read *toboso 枢; kuro or kuroro.



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Architecture, General Terms
kusabuki 草葺

Also kusabuki yane 草葺屋根; kuzuyane 葛屋根. Lit. grass roofing. The material used to build one style of…

Architecture, General Terms
kusarebushi 腐節

Lit. decayed knot. A common flaw in wood which can contribute to weakness in any lumber intended to support other members.…

Architecture, General Terms
kushigatabei 櫛形塀 ✓

A partition *hei 塀 between the dado band *…

Architecture, General Terms
kutsu-ishi 沓石

Also called *hashira-ishi 柱石. Lit. shoe or boot stone. The foundations…

Architecture, General Terms
kutsunugi-ishi 沓脱石 ✓

Lit. shoe-removing stone. A flat-topped stone used for taking off one's shoes before entering a *…

Architecture, General Terms
kutsuzuri 沓摺 ✓

Also kutsuzuriwaku 沓摺枠. A threshold or doorsill upon which a hinged door closes snugly because the sill is a little…

Architecture, General Terms
kyakuza 客座

1 A seat used by a guest.


2 In traditional vernacular houses *…

Architecture, General Terms
kyōrogumi 京呂組 ✓

The method used to attach a purlin *jōyageta 上屋桁 and transverse beams *…

Architecture, General Terms

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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