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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
mechigaihozotsuki kamatsugi 目違ほぞ付鎌継 ✓

Also called ōkamatsugi 大鎌継, shinkamatsugi 真鎌継. Half-blind mortise and tenon gooseneck joint. A variation…

Architecture, Joints
mechigaitsugi 目違継

Also called inrōtsugi 印籠継. A simple blind or half-blind stub tenon joint. A blind tenon, mechigaihozo 目違ほぞ…

Architecture, Joints
megi 女木

Also called shitagi 下木. The indented part of a wooden joint. It functions like a mortise *…

Architecture, Joints
mukōdome 向留 ✓

One part of the joint used when eaves supports *kayaoi 茅負 or flying rafter…

Architecture, Joints
tōshi hozo 通しほぞ

Also called tōshi hozosashi 通しほぞ差; uchinuki hozo 打抜ほぞ. A through tenon and mortise angle joint. A…

Architecture, Joints
tsugite 継手 ✓

Also written 接手.

1 A generic term for joinery including spliced and angled joints. When used as a…

Architecture, Joints
tsukitsuke 突付

A simple, basic butt joint. To butt two or more cut timbers end to end. The joint is called dōzuki 胴付 when a cut…

Architecture, Joints

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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