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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
nagashi 流し

1 A sink used for washing food before its preparation, for washing utensils after a meal, or for washing…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
nakabashira 中柱

1 Also *daimebashira 台目柱. A small pillar which stands at…

Architecture, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings
nakado 中戸 ✓

A pair of sliding doors *hikichigai 引違, separating the front…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
nakadoma machiya 中土間町家

An urban vernacular residence *machiya 町家, characterised by a…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
nakadoma 中土間

An inner earth-floored area found in *nakadoma machiya…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
nakai 中居

1 A private service-oriented room in the mansions of aristocrats, warriors, retired emperors, abbots and…

Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings
nakaniwa 中庭

1 A place for hanging clothes in vernacular dwellings of the Kantō 関東 region.


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Architecture, Folk Dwellings
namakokabe 海鼠壁 ✓

Also written 生子壁. A traditional finish for *dozō-zukuri 土蔵造 and *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
nedoko 寝床

Also *nema 寝間, *nando 納戸, *heya…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
nema 寝間

A room for sleeping in vernacular houses *minka 民家 of the Edo period.…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
nichōgake 弐丁懸

Roughly dressed lumber measuring less than three *ken 間 (5.5 m) in length and more…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
niuji 入地

The main living room *hiroma 広間, adjacent to the earthen-floored area…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
niwa daikokubashira 庭大黒柱

Also abbreviated to niwadaikoku 庭大黒.

1 A freestanding post *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
niwakamado 庭竃

1 A new cooking range *kamado 竃, or open hearth *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
noren 暖簾

1 A hanging cloth suspended from the eaves or in the openings (especially entrances) of a building as…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
nurigome 塗篭

1 A sleeping space used by the master and mistress of the house, enclosed with solid plaster walls, usually…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
nuriya tenjō 塗屋天井

A ceiling of the *sunoko 簀子 type made from bamboo stalks lashed…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
nuriya-zukuri 塗屋造

An alternative term for *ōkabe-zukuri 大壁造. The fireproofing…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
nyōbōza 女房座

Lit. "wife's seat." Also frequently called kakaza 嬶座. One of the seats around the edge of the sunken hearth *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
shakemachi 社家町

A township composed of *shake 社家, families who held posts (usually hereditary) as…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
shikibari 敷梁

Also *ushibari 牛梁, nakahikibari 中引梁, ushihikibari 牛引梁, …

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
shimodaidokoro 下台所

Lit. "lower kitchen."

1 The outermost part of the kitchen that functioned as a service zone in the…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
shimomise 下店

1 A room in the front *shimote 下手 corner of the earth-floored…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
shishimado 獅子窓

1 A large window in the front wall frame of a principal living room *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
shukubamachi 宿場町

A type of settlement or township which developed along major trunk roads during the medieval and early modern periods,…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
shukuya 宿屋

A vernacular house *minka 民家, in the style known as *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
shukuya-zukuri 宿屋造

1 A term for a style of vernacular residence *minka 民家, with…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
sodeudatsu 袖卯立 ✓

Lit. "sleeve udatsu." Extensions of the gable parapet walls *udatsu 卯立…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
sudomon 簀戸門

Lit. "latticed door gate." A type of garden gate which features lattice, or basket-work of split bamboo. Varieties include…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
suzumeodori 雀踊 ✓

Lit. "sparrow dance." A widely-used term for a range of elements used to decorate the ridge of the roof in vernacular houses…

Architecture, General Terms, Folk 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