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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
numazugaki 沼津垣 ✓

Also called ajirogaki 網代垣 or ajiro takegaki 網代竹垣. A type of wickerwork fence, especially popular in…

Architecture, Gardens
nune torii 奴禰鳥居

An ornamental type of *myōjin torii 明神鳥居, or gate-like entrance a Shinto…

Architecture, Shrines
nuno-ishi 布石

1 Also called *nunokiso 布基礎. One meter long rectangular base…

Architecture, General Terms
nunokiso 布基礎 ✓

Also called renzoku kiso 連続基礎. A type of direct footing that runs diagonally across corners and attaches to the…

Architecture, General Terms
nunome-gawara 布目瓦

A generic term for the textured impression found on the underside of a roof tile. The impression is left by the cloth placed…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
nunomeato 布目痕

The traces left by the pressure of a cloth on a clay surface. The character 痕 ato or kon means a mark left…

Architecture, General Terms
nunozuki 布築

Lit. "cloth construction." Ashlar construction. Also termed nunozumi 布積 (cloth piling). A technique used in dry…

Architecture, Castles
nure-en 濡縁

Lit. "wet veranda." Also called *ochi-en 落縁, kirime-en 切目縁. A…

Architecture, General Terms
nuresagigata tōrō 濡鷺形灯籠

Lit. "wet-heron type." A lantern with six uniform sides and a long, thick bell-shaped canopy without…

Architecture, Lanterns
nurigamachi 塗框

Also pronounced nurikamachi. The lacquered rails or finishing strips used for the framework of sliding screens *…

Architecture, Decorations
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
nurigome-zukuri 塗篭造

A generic term for the process used to build a fire-resistent wall. Typically the wooden structural frame is entirely…

Architecture, General Terms
nurigōshi 塗格子 ✓

Windows made with plaster-covered lattice, commonly used in merchants' houses *machiya…

Architecture, General Terms
nurimawashidoko 塗廻床 ✓

Also written 塗回床. An alcove *tokonoma 床の間, with three sides and the wall…

Architecture, General Terms
nurishiro 塗代

Also nuriatsu 塗厚. Depth of plastering. The ratio between the thickness from the first rough coat applied to the…

Architecture, General Terms
nuriya tenjō 塗屋天井

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

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
nuriya 塗屋

Also written 塗り屋, 塗家.

1 A fireproof building in which all the timber surfaces of the structural…

Architecture, General Terms
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

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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