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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
machinami 町並

Also pronounced chōnami.

1 Streetscape in an urban area. The linear space defined by the…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
machiya 町家

1 Also written 町屋. One of the two main categories of vernacular house *minka…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
magariya 曲り屋 ✓

Also written 曲屋. A farmhouse, nōka 農家, with a room that housed stables *umaya…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
magariya-zukuri 曲屋造

A general term for farmhouses with an L-shaped plan *magariya 曲り屋

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
mata-zukuri 股造

1 A structural system employing posts called *matabashira 股柱, which…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
matabashira 股柱

A type of post found in vernacular houses *minka 民家, of the 17th…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
mawarikumiido 回り組井戸

A well with a particular arrangement of stone sidings for its top and shaft lining. It has four lining elements each of…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
minja みんじゃ

1 A dialect variant of *mizuya 水屋, used in the Edo period to designate an…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
minka 民家

A general term for vernacular dwellings of the ancient, medieval, or premodern periods, or rebuilt in the style of the…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
mise 店

Also pronounced tana.

1 Abbreviation of *misedana 見世棚.
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Architecture, Folk Dwellings
misedana 見世棚

Also written 店棚.

1 A small-scale shop in the mediaeval period. Known from the late Heian…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
misedoma 店土間

The front part of the earthen-floored area *doma 土間, in urban vernacular…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
miseniwa 店庭

The space outside the front part of the earthern-floored area *doma 土間 of…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
miseoku 店奥

Lit. "beyond the shop." A term used most commonly in the Kinai 畿内 district and Kii 紀伊 (Wakayama Prefecture), during the Edo…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
mizuya 水屋 ✓

1 Also written 水遣, 水谷, 水舎. Also called *daidokoro 台所, *…

Architecture, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings
monohoshidai 物干し台

A railed timber platform built on the roofs of urban vernacular houses *machiya…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
monzengō 門前郷

A type of settlement of lesser officials and servants which developed around the precincts of great shrines and temples…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
monzenmachi 門前町

Also pronunced monzenchō. A settlement in front of the main gate of a temple (or *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
mukaidaidokoro 向台所

A second raised-floor area at the lower end *shimote 下手, of…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
munamochibashira 棟持柱 ✓

Also osabashira 小狭柱 or futabashira 二柱. A generic name for pillars which rise from the ground to…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
muro 室

1 In Japan's earliest compilations, the 8th century Kojiki 古事記 and Nihon shoki 日本書紀, a…

Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings
mushamado 武者窓 ✓

Also bukemado 武家窓, bugyōmado 奉行窓. Edo period windows with heavy vertical lattice bars, used in castle…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
mushiko gōshi 虫籠格子

Also written 蒸子格子. A type of lattice *kōshi 格子 used on windows…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
mushikomado 虫籠窓 ✓

A type of window containing a lattice of *mushiko gōshi 虫籠格子, set into the upper part…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
takahei 高塀

Also pronounced takahe. The gable walls of the central thatched portion kirizuma 切妻 of the roof *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
takahei-zukuri 高塀造り

Also pronounced takahe-zukuri. Lit. "high wall construction." Also called *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
takiguchi 焚口

The stokehole or stokeholes in the side of a cooking range *kamado 竃. The…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tana 棚

Shelves.

1  A type of shelf, sometimes with a rack, of which there are many ordinary household…

Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings
tarukidake 垂木竹

Bamboo rafters that span from the ridge *munagi 棟木 to the eave ends *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tateana jūkyo 竪穴住居

A pit dwelling. Generally a house type with a sunken, excavated floor. Houses of this type existed in Japan from the Jōmon…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tateba 立て場

1 Small settlements between the larger officially recognized inn towns *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
teppōdoko 鉄砲床

A term for an alcove or recess of the *oshi-ita 押板 type found in…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tokomise 床見世

Also written 床店. A small shop *mise 店, or stall, used for retail…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tomobeya 伴部屋

Also written 供部屋. A room used principally by the servants or attendants tomo 伴, 供 of high ranking visitors both as…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tōriniwa 通り庭 ✓

An earthfloored area *doma 土間 or *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tsuchido 土戸

1 In the Heian and Kamakura periods, a gate in a pise mud wall *tsuiji…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Storehouses
tsuji 辻

1 A crossroads or intersection of two roads. See *zushi…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tsukabumi 束踏

1 An alternative term for the base ridge *jimune 地棟. The base…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tsunagibari 繋梁

Lit. "connecting beam."

1 Also *geyabari 下屋梁. A short…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tsuribeya 吊り部屋

A small upper floor or mezzanine loft space *chūnikai 中二階, usually only about…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
tsushi nikai 厨子二階 ✓

Also read zushi nikai. A loft in the roof space of a single-story vernacular house *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings

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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