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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

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
uchigenkan 内玄関

A subordinate entry in houses possessing a formal guest entry *genkan 玄関, and…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
udatsu-bashira うだつ柱

1 A wide post at the interface between the earth-floored space *doma…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
udatsu 卯立 ✓

Also written 卯建, 宇立, うだつ; all read udachi, odatsu, or odachi.

1 A term…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
udatsuya うだつ屋

1 A rudimentary thatched dwelling hut or ancillary structure with a gable roof *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
umaya 馬屋 ✓

A stable. Also written 厩. Also maya 馬屋 or 厩, keiya けいや, and kyūsha 厩舎. Applied to both a…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
ushibari 牛梁

1 A particularly large beam that runs in a longitudinal direction, ketayuki hōkō 桁行方向 (see *…

Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings
ushiroya chūmon 後屋中門

A rear wing which extends from the main structure of a folk dwelling *minka…

Architecture, Gates, Folk Dwellings
usuniwa 臼庭 ✓

1 An alternative term for all or part of the earth-floored area, *doma…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
usuya 臼屋

1 A small-scale freestanding structure containing a mortar or hand mill, usu 臼, for pounding rice…

Architecture, 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