Also kiriotoshi 切落.

1　A generic term for a floor that is lower than the main floor of a…

1　A general term for the final or innermost room of a *shoin 書院…

Lit. "the front, surface, or exterior of something."
1　The front part of a house and the area around the…

A generic term used from the Muromachi through the Edo periods to indicate facilities provided for the visit of a shogun to…

1　A low four-legged table used in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods in upper class priestly and lay…

Also written 男末.
1　A writing and service room for servants responsible for household chores in either…

1　The wife of a member of the upper classes and her living chambers. The term, used in the Muromachi period…

A room connected to the *oyudono 御湯殿 where utensils for the emperor's meals were kept.…

1　A north room in the western pent-roof structure *hisashi 廂…

Lit. "monkey's ears." A pair of cleats that did not really resemble monkey's ears but rather the horns of a bull. The cleats…

Lit. "pointing to the alcove." Ceiling battens *saobuchi 竿縁 or thick straw…

Also written 色代の間. A room or building that projects from (or adjacent and linked by galleries to) the rear of the main…

Also written 色代.

1　A low broad step or platform of timber, which had become a standard feature of the…

A toilet for servants. The toilet used by the elite or by the master in merchants housing was called jōchōzu 上手水.…

Lit. "lower kitchen."

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

One of the residences granted to daimyō 大名 by the Edo government, as part of the system where feudal lords…

1　A large reception room developed in the Momoyama period, used by military leaders, daimyō …