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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
maebiki oga 前挽大鋸 ✓

A large ripsaw with a blade about 60 cm long and 40 cm wide. It was first introduced in the 15th century and was used until…

Architecture, Tools
maebikinoko 前挽鋸

Standard purpose carpenters' ripsaw. A ripsaw with a blade approximately 35-40 cm long and 12 cm wide. The blade narrows…

Architecture, Tools
maruganna 丸鉋

A special type of plane used for paring a curved wooden surface. A sotomaruganna 外丸鉋 is used for paring a concave…

Architecture, Tools
marunomi 丸鑿

A type of striking chisel *tatakinomi 叩鑿, with a thin, arc-shaped…

Architecture, Tools
masakari 鉞

A carpenter's hewing ax. It is smaller than a tree-felling ax, tazuki 多都岐, and weighs between 750 and 1300 g. The…

Architecture, Tools
mentoriganna 面取鉋

A special plane used to cut bevelled corners. A shooting board, that serves as a guide, is attached to a small smoothing…

Architecture, Tools
mizoganna 溝鉋 ✓

Also known as shakuriganna 决鉋. A plane used exclusively for making grooves in a doorsill or lintel. If the width of…

Architecture, Tools
motoichi shakuriganna 基一決鉋 ✓

A plane used to curve the grooves in a doorsill or lintel. Unlike the *mizoganna 溝鉋,…

Architecture, Tools
sagefuri 下振

Also called shōjiki 正直. A plumb line with a plumb bob, furiko 振子, at the lower end. The plumb bob is a…

Architecture, Tools
shakuzue 尺杖

A rod-like, rectangular piece of wood made of Japanese cedar sugi 杉, or Japanese cypress hinoki 桧, 1.8 to…

Architecture, Tools
shiage ganna 仕上鉋

A special finishing plane. A plane used in the final stage of smoothing wood after the surface has been flattened with the…

Architecture, Tools
sokosarainomi 底渫鑿

Lit. "bottom-cleaning chisel." A chisel designed to clean out the wooden shavings which have accumulated in the base of the…

Architecture, Tools
soridaiganna 反り台鉋 ✓

A plane used for moulding curved, wooden architectural elements such as gable boards or projecting rafters. The sole of the…

Architecture, Tools
sujikebiki 筋毛引

A carpentry gauge used to mark accurate, parallel lines on pillars, door frames and planks, or to accurately redraw the…

Architecture, Tools
suminawa 墨縄

Also known as sumi-ito 墨糸. A carpenter's inking line. It is used for drawing a reference line (the procedure is…

Architecture, Tools
sumisashi 墨刺

Also written 墨芯. A bamboo brush or drawing spatula. The tip of a piece of bamboo is sharpened into a pallet shape and then…

Architecture, Tools
sumitsubo 墨壷

Carpenter's ink pot, or ink pad. The sumitsubo, unlike other carpentry tools, does not have a fixed shape or size.…

Architecture, Tools

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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