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| raigō-bashira 来迎柱 | Two or four-circular pillars right and left at each corner of the Buddhist altar to define the most sacred place in a temple… |
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| raigō-kabe 来迎壁 | ✓ | Also called raigō-heki. A clay or wooden wall erected behind a Buddhist altar *… |
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| raimon kōshi 雷文格子 | Lattice arranged in a fret pattern, used especially on railings of balconies. |
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| ranma 欄間 | ✓ | A transom. A rectangular opening, longer in the horizontal direction, constructed between the lintels *… |
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| ranseki 乱石 | ✓ | Also called no-ishizumi 野石積. Stones with an irregular shape. Those that are somewhat square are called nozura-… |
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| ransekizumi kidan 乱石積基壇 | Also referred to as ranzumi kidan 乱積基壇, ranzō ransekizumi 乱層乱石積, kuzure ishizumi くずれ石積 or simply… |
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| ranzumi 乱積 | Also called *ransekizumi 乱石積, waraizumi 笑い積. Randomly piled natural stones *… |
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| renjimado 連子窓 | Also written 櫺子窓. Lit. "a row lath window." |
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| rensō 連窓 | Multiple windows. Two or more windows connected horizontally, or windows connected within one frame window with vertical… |
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| rensōmado 連双窓 | ✓ | Rensōmado means double windows. Two windows in line. Also called *meotomado… |
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| rō 廊 | A roofed corridor or passageway that connects one structure to another. It may also encompass an open area. There are… |
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| ro 炉 | ✓ | A sunken hearth. A square box installed into the floor of a tea ceremony room to make a charcoal fire. The standard size… |
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| rō-zukuri 楼造 | ✓ | A gate *rōmon 楼門, that appears to have two stories, but in reality is a high… |
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| roban 露盤 | ✓ | Commonly used abbreviation of shō roban 承露盤; also called masugata 枡形. Originally, an entire spire *… |
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| rodai 露台 | ✓ | 1 An unroofed platform, a dais, or a projected veranda or balcony. |
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| rōka 廊下 | 1 A hallwayor corridor within a building giving access to various rooms. |
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| roku 陸 | Also riku. A synonym for suihei 水平 meaning level. |
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| rokuchū-zukuri 六注造 | Also called rokkaku yane 六角屋根. A six-sided roof that covers an hexagonal building *… |
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| rōkyō 廊橋 | Also called hashirō 橋廊. A covered bridge, often with a resting place at the central point. Rōkyō can… |
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| ronji daruki 論治垂木 | Also called koshikake daruki 腰掛垂木, ranji daruki 鸞翅垂木, or tenbō daruki 天望垂木. |
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| ryōbiraki 両開 | Also *kannonbiraki tobira 観音開扉, double doors that open in one… |
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| ryōkusabi 両楔 | Wedges used on the right and left sides to strengthen and to secure a penetrating tie beam inserted into a pillar. |
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| ryōsage 両下 | A type of gable roof *kirizuma-zukuri 切妻造. Also called… |
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| ryūsha 竜車 | Lit. "dragon vehicle." The round or oval section of a pagoda finial *sōrin… |
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| ryūyōdana 柳葉棚 | ✓ | Lit. "willow leaf shelf." |
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| uchikaeshi 打返し | Also pronounced uttegaeshi 打って返し, utasegaeshi 打たせ返し. Perfect symmetry on both sides of a center line… |
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| uchikorobi 内転 | Pillars *hashira 柱 with an inward incline. Uchikorobi… |
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| uchikoshi daruki | ✓ | Rafters *taruki 垂木 that extend from the flying rafter support *… |
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| uchinorinuki 内法貫 | A penetrating tie beam *nuki 貫 placed directly on top of a door or… |
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| uchinorizai 内法材 | Also called uchinorimono 内法物. The wooden materials used for the framework of a sliding screen *… |
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| udegi 腕木 | 1 A relatively short horizontal timber that functions like a brace. It is attached to and extends outward… |
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| uguisubari 鴬張 | Lit. "nightingale floor." Floor boards which rub together when walked on to produce a pleasant and delicate sound. This type… |
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| ukegi 受木 | A generic term for all supporting or receiving structural members. For example, a timber that receives an eave cornice is… |
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| umegi 埋木 | Also read umeki. A wooden dowel or plug used to fill a hole in a piece of timber. If a knot or some other flaw… |
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| umemodoshi 埋戻 | To fill in any remaining open spaces with sand, gravel, soil, or other such substances, after the foundation and all… |
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| ura-ita 裏板 | A generic term for backing boards, which are boards nailed over rafters to form a backing for the roofing. In an open roof… |
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| uragaeshi-nuri 裏返塗 | Also called uragaeshi 裏返 or yobinuri 呼塗. Soft, rough plaster arakabe tsuchi 荒壁土 applied to… |
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| uragaya 裏茅 | Also urappo 裏穂. A thatching material used on vernacular dwellings *minka… |
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| uragō 裏甲 | ✓ | Visible eaves filler placed the eave support *kayaoi 茅負, and projected slightly… |
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| uragome 裏込 | Also read uragomi. The process of filling the gaps in the rear of a stone retaining wall or stone fence with rubble… |
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| urakabe 裏壁 | A plaster wall which has mud plaster applied to the front side and then to the rear side before the plaster on the front… |
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| urauchi marutagaki 裏打丸太垣 | Also called marutagaki 丸太垣. A fence constructed with logs positioned at fairly close intervals and three horizontal… |
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| urazan 裏桟 | A crosspiece used to secure the back or upper side of a ceiling board. |
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| urazumi 裏積 | Bricks or stones set at the back of a brick or stone wall to give it extra support. The term is an abbreviation of … |
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| ushibari 牛梁 | 1 A particularly large beam that runs in a longitudinal direction, ketayuki hōkō 桁行方向 (see *… |
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| ushirobutai 後舞台 | The rear stage between dressing rooms and the rear door of the main stage in a *kabuki… |
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| usushikii 薄敷居 | Lit. "thin sills." A lintel and sill used under and above transom *ranma 欄間.… |
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| utsubo-bashira 靫柱 | Also written 空柱. Lit. "hollow pillar." A box-like down-spout tatedoi 竪樋 used to carry rainwater from roof gutters… |
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| uwaba 上端 | Also called tenba 天端. |
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| uwabari 上張 | Also written 上貼, also called visible top layer keshōbari 化粧張, front side hyōmenbari 表面張 or finishing… |
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| uwanoki 上軒 | The upper-most eave of a nokizuke 軒付 or nokiba 軒端 eave end. Each part of the eave has a name. The… |
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| uwanuri 上塗り | 1 Also shiagenuri 仕上げ塗. The final layer applied to a decorative painting sōshoku kōji… |
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| uwanuri tsuchi 上塗土 | The top or finishing coat of a mud plaster wall, tsuchimonokabe 土物壁 or ōtsukabe 大津壁. |
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| uyū 烏有 | ✓ | Also called tori-no-shita 鳥の舌 (lit. "bird's tongue"). A somewhat triangular piece of wood added to a bracket arm *… |
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| uzu-ita 渦板 | A board with a carved spiral-like uzusen 渦線 linear design. It is found on frog-leg struts *… |
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