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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
yatoi-ari 雇蟻

A right-angled joint with a dovetail spline tenon *hozo ほぞ that resembles a…

Architecture, Joints
yatoihozo 雇ほぞ

Also called sashiki 差木, yatoiki 雇木, or machihozo 待ほぞ.

1 A spline tenon. A…

Architecture, Joints
yonmaihozo 四枚ほぞ ✓ The four tenons cut into the crosscut of a beam. Quadruple tenons. The same principle is used in making double tenons *… Architecture, Joints
yose-ari hikidokko 寄蟻引独鈷

A right angle joint used to attach a horizontal member to a pillar. It combines a type of dovetail joint *…

Architecture, Joints
yose-ari 寄蟻

Also called okuri-ari 送蟻. A right angle joint *shiguchi 仕口 used to…

Architecture, Joints
yotsutome 四留

Also pronounced yotsudome. An angled joint *shiguchi 仕口, composed of…

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