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mokume 木目 ✓

Sometimes written 杢目. Also called mokuri 木理 or kime 肌目. The wood grain exposed when a log is cut…

Architecture, General Terms
mokuzai 木材

Wooden construction material including lumber, wood,and timber. All parts of heavy branches and tree trunks jukan…

Architecture, General Terms
mokuzō 木造

Architectural structures constructed mainly of timber. The term is used even if the walls are plastered and the roofing is…

Architecture, General Terms
Momoyama jidai 桃山時代

Also Azuchi-momoyama jidai 安土桃山時代. Lit. "peach mountain period." The Momoyama period (1568-1615) during which Japan…

Art History, General Terms
monbashira 門柱

Also read monchū. Posts or pillars to which gates are attached.

Architecture, General Terms
monooki 物置

A general term for a small room or simple structure where objects such as items of equipment, tools, containers and utensils…

Architecture, General Terms
mosaku 模作

Lit. "to make a copy." A copy of an artwork. In the case of painting and calligraphy, it is specifically called *…

Art History, General Terms
moya 母屋

1 The core of a building. Prior to the introduction of Buddhism the term moya meant the central…

Architecture, General Terms
moyageta 母屋桁

Also *moya 母屋. Purlins; horizontal members placed between and parallel to the…

Architecture, General Terms
muchikake 鞭掛

Also osagomai or usakomai 小狭小舞; 小来舞. Four slender wooden members, square at their inner ends, and circular…

Architecture, General Terms
mukōzuma 向妻

Also *tsumairi 妻入; mukōzuma-zukuri 向妻造; *…

Architecture, General Terms
mukuri 起 ✓

Lit. "camber." In traditional Japanese architecture, a roof surface or individual member with convex curves as opposed to…

Architecture, General Terms
mukuri yane 起屋根 ✓

A camber roof. A roof with convex curve from eave end *nokisaki 軒先, to ridge…

Architecture, General Terms
mume shikii 無目敷居

Also called mekurashikii 盲敷居, *mume 無目, nume 滑, or mume…

Architecture, General Terms
mume 無目

Lit. "smooth or flat." A prefix used to indicate that a threshold or sill *shikii…

Architecture, General Terms
munafuda 棟札

Ridge tag. A narrow, wooden tag or marker, measuring from 30 cm to 1 m long, upon which pertinent information regarding a…

Architecture, General Terms
munagi 棟木

A ridge pole or ridge beam. The topmost horizontal member in a roof. It receives the upper ends of the rafters.

Architecture, General Terms
munakata 棟形

Ridge beam. Also called munegata, munagata, munegeta 棟桁; *…

Architecture, General Terms
munazutsumi 棟包 ✓

Also read munezutsumi.

1 A general term used to refer to any tile stacked high in layers…

Architecture, General Terms
mune 棟

Also called *munagi 棟木. A ridge. Mune includes not only the main ridge at the very…

Architecture, General Terms
muneageshiki 棟上式

Also muneage 棟上; jōtōsai 上棟祭; jōtōshiki 上棟式. A ridge-raising ceremony that takes place upon…

Architecture, General Terms
muneshinanoki 棟品軒

The main ridge pole that extends beyond the end of a roof surface and abuts against the footplate ashimoto 足元, of…

Architecture, General Terms
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
Muromachi jidai 室町時代

Also Ashikaga jidai 足利時代. The Muromachi period (1392-1568). The period derives its name from a district in Kyoto which…

Art History, General Terms
mushakakushi 武者隠

Lit. "hidden warriors." A small room closed off from the raised-floor area *jōdan…

Architecture, General Terms
musōmado 無双窓 ✓

Abbreviated term for musō renjimado 無双連子窓, also further shortened to musō 無双. A window made of narrow…

Architecture, General Terms
mutesaki tokyō 六手先斗きょう ✓

Sometimes abbreviated to mutesaki 六手先. Six-stepped bracket complexes as seen on the great south gate, Tōdaiji *…

Architecture, General Terms

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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