| 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 | |
| takahei 高塀 | Also pronounced takahe. The gable walls of the central thatched portion kirizuma 切妻 of the roof *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| takahei-zukuri 高塀造り | Also pronounced takahe-zukuri. Lit. "high wall construction." Also called *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| takiguchi 焚口 | The stokehole or stokeholes in the side of a cooking range *kamado 竃. The… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tana 棚 | Shelves. 1 A type of shelf, sometimes with a rack, of which there are many ordinary household… |
Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings | |
| tarukidake 垂木竹 | Bamboo rafters that span from the ridge *munagi 棟木 to the eave ends *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tateana jūkyo 竪穴住居 | A pit dwelling. Generally a house type with a sunken, excavated floor. Houses of this type existed in Japan from the Jōmon… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tateba 立て場 | 1 Small settlements between the larger officially recognized inn towns *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| teppōdoko 鉄砲床 | A term for an alcove or recess of the *oshi-ita 押板 type found in… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tokomise 床見世 | Also written 床店. A small shop *mise 店, or stall, used for retail… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tomobeya 伴部屋 | Also written 供部屋. A room used principally by the servants or attendants tomo 伴, 供 of high ranking visitors both as… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tōriniwa 通り庭 | ✓ | Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsuchido 土戸 | 1 In the Heian and Kamakura periods, a gate in a pise mud wall *tsuiji… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Storehouses | |
| tsuji 辻 | 1 A crossroads or intersection of two roads. See *zushi… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsukabumi 束踏 | 1 An alternative term for the base ridge *jimune 地棟. The base… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsunagibari 繋梁 | Lit. "connecting beam." 1 Also *geyabari 下屋梁. A short… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsuribeya 吊り部屋 | A small upper floor or mezzanine loft space *chūnikai 中二階, usually only about… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsushi nikai 厨子二階 | ✓ | Also read zushi nikai. A loft in the roof space of a single-story vernacular house *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
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