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nagarehozo 流ほぞ ✓

A sloped tenon, which is cut into the end of a beam. The top of the tenon is flush with the top surface of the beam. The…

Architecture, Joints
nejigumi 捻組

Lit. "twisted construction." A bevelled, wooden, angled joint, sogi mokuzō shiguchi 殺木造仕口, commonly used to connect…

Architecture, Joints
nimaihozo 二枚ほぞ ✓

Double tenons. Double tenons take many forms including individual, rectangular tenons of the same size placed side by side…

Architecture, Joints
nogetsugi 芒継 ✓ Also called kayaoi kamatsugi 茅負鎌継. A joint used to join sections of an eave support *kayaoi… Architecture, Joints
ōire ariotoshi 大入蟻落 ✓

Also called kageire ariotoshi 陰入蟻落; ōire arikake 大入蟻掛. A joint made to connect a purlin *…

Architecture, Joints
ōire 大入 ✓

Also written 追入 or 尾入. A dadoed or housed, angled T-joint, which is used to join beams to posts. A shallow square or…

Architecture, Joints
okkake daisentsugi 追掛大栓継 ✓

An oblique, housed (dadoed) and rabbeted scarf joint. The upper and lower pieces are exactly the same but reversed. The…

Architecture, Joints
otoshikama 落鎌 ✓

Also called sagekama 下鎌. A commonly used half-blind, gooseneck tenon *kama…

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