| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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… |
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| mokuzō 木造 | Architectural structures constructed mainly of timber. The term is used even if the walls are plastered and the roofing is… |
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| 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… |
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| monbashira 門柱 | Also read monchū. Posts or pillars to which gates are attached. |
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| monooki 物置 | A general term for a small room or simple structure where objects such as items of equipment, tools, containers and utensils… |
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| mosaku 模作 | Lit. "to make a copy." A copy of an artwork. In the case of painting and calligraphy, it is specifically called *… |
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| moya 母屋 | 1 The core of a building. Prior to the introduction of Buddhism the term moya meant the central… |
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| moyageta 母屋桁 | Also *moya 母屋. Purlins; horizontal members placed between and parallel to the… |
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| 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… |
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| mukōzuma 向妻 | Also *tsumairi 妻入; mukōzuma-zukuri 向妻造; *… |
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| 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… |
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| mume 無目 | Lit. "smooth or flat." A prefix used to indicate that a threshold or sill *shikii… |
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| 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… |
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| munagi 棟木 | A ridge pole or ridge beam. The topmost horizontal member in a roof. It receives the upper ends of the rafters. |
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| munakata 棟形 | Ridge beam. Also called munegata, munagata, munegeta 棟桁; *… |
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| munazutsumi 棟包 | ✓ | Also read munezutsumi. |
Architecture, General Terms |
| mune 棟 | Also called *munagi 棟木. A ridge. Mune includes not only the main ridge at the very… |
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| muneageshiki 棟上式 | Also muneage 棟上; jōtōsai 上棟祭; jōtōshiki 上棟式. A ridge-raising ceremony that takes place upon… |
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| 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… |
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| muro 室 | 1 In Japan's earliest compilations, the 8th century Kojiki 古事記 and Nihon shoki 日本書紀, a… |
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| 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… |
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| mushakakushi 武者隠 | Lit. "hidden warriors." A small room closed off from the raised-floor area *jōdan… |
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| 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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