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miaraka 御殿

Also written 御舎. The emperor's palace or dwellings of the upper class in the proto-historic and early historic periods. The…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
mihashi 御階

The term for steps constructed at the center front of two important imperial palace buildings in Kyoto Gosho 京都御所, the…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
mikawamizu 御溝水

Also mikawa 御溝. Ditches surrounding each building in the Imperial Palace. The present palace, Kyoto Gosho 京都御所, has…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
misubusuma 御簾襖

A variation on the usual style of opaque sliding partitioning screen *fusuma …

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
mizushidokoro 御厨子所

1 A part of the emperor's residential compound Dairi 内裏 in the Imperial Palace, Kyoto Gosho 京都御所. The…

Architecture, Aristocratic 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
yanagidana 柳棚

Lit. "willow shelf." An asymmetrical arrangement of three decorative shelves tokowakidana 床脇棚 arranged in the…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
yokoza 横座

1 The seat of the principal and most honored guest sonsha 尊者 at formal banquets in the shinden…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
yorikimado 与力窓 ✓

1 A rectangular window used in exterior walls, fitted with thick horizontal timber bars *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
yūgiridana 夕霧棚

An arrangement of three staggered shelves in the upper half of the recess *tokowaki…

Architecture, Aristocratic 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