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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
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."
1 The front part of a house and the area around the…

Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, 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

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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