| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| 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 | 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. |
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." |
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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