| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| ochimune-zukuri 落棟造 | A design incorporating a projection from a major building with a roof ridge *mune… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| ōdo 大戸 | ✓ | 1 Lit. "great door." Also called *ōdoguchi 大戸口. The door… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| ōdoguchi 大戸口 | 1 The main entrance to traditional vernacular houses *minka 民家… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| okamabashira 御竃柱 | Also written 御釜柱. A pillar which is erected opposite the main central support pillar *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| okami 御上 | 1 A room that abutted the earth-floored area *doma 土間, at its… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| okiya 置屋 | The houses of procurers keeping teams of yūjo 遊女, female entertainers and prostitutes in the authorised pleasure… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| okiyane 置屋根 | ✓ | The upper roof erected over storehouses, kura 倉, of the *dozō … |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| okuzashiki 奥座敷 | 1 A general term for the final or innermost room of a *shoin 書院… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| omote 表 | Lit. "the front, surface, or exterior of something." |
Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| omoteya 表屋 | A row of urban vernacular buildings *machiya 町家, directly facing the street at… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| omoteya-zukuri 表屋造 | ✓ | A layout of urban vernacular residences *machiya 町家, found during the Edo… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| oshi-ita 押板 | 1 A low four-legged table used in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods in upper class priestly and lay… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| oue 御上 | 1 The wife of a member of the upper classes and her living chambers. The term, used in the Muromachi period… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, 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. |
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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