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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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| raigōbashira 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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| 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 *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| ranseki 乱石 | ✓ | Also called no-ishizumi 野石積. Stones with an irregular shape. Those that are somewhat square are called nozura-… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| 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… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| 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." |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yagura kemudashi 櫓煙出 | ✓ | Also written 櫓烟出. Also read yagura kemuridashi. An opening constructed in a thatched roof to allow the escape of… |
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| yaguranuki 櫓貫 | Commonly double-penetrating, diagonally placed beams that connect the main post *… |
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| yakata tenjō 屋形天井 | 1 A ceiling with the same pitch as the roof. Really, an exposed ceiling *… |
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| yakuba 役場 | 1 The parts of a stone wall such as exterior corners, top surfaces, or openings for drainage where… |
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| yamamichi katō 山道火灯 | A window used especially in the Zen style *zenshūyō 禅宗様; a type of ogival… |
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| yamato 大和 | ✓ | 1 An abbreviation for yamatouchi-no-to 大和打の戸 or yamatouchi 大和打. A door that has vertical… |
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| yamatobuki 大和葺 | ✓ | 1 A type of board roofing made by first spacing boards of equal width at predetermined intervals and then… |
Architecture, General Terms, Tea Houses |
| yane-ita 屋根板 | A generic name for various types of roofing boards including *noji-ita… |
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| yane kōzō 屋根構造 | ✓ | The construction of the roof framework or roof truss over the body of a building. The essential framing for a gable roof *… |
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| yane 屋根 | ✓ | Also called okugai 屋蓋, lit. "roof covering." A generic term for various types of roofs, roof styles, and roofing.… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yanebuki 屋根葺 | Roofing or roof covering. The most commonly used types of roofing are clay tiles *… |
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| yanegae 屋根替 | Rethatching, retiling, or reshingling a roof whereby old roofing is replaced with new roofing. |
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| yanekugi 屋根釘 | Also kobanekugi 小羽根釘. Small round bamboo roofing nails, with a diameter between 2.1 to 2.8 mm and a length from 50… |
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| yaneura 屋根裏 | 1 See *keshō yaneura 化粧屋根裏. 2 An… |
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| yaraiko 矢来子 | The framing members of a fence. They may be vertical, horizontal, diagonal, or arranged to form squares or lozenges. A variety… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| yareigeta 破井桁 | ✓ | Lit. "broken well crib." Also yabureigeta. A design used for muntins *kumiko… |
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| yatsumune-zukuri 八棟造 | ✓ | Lit. "eight-ridge construction." A complicated roof style with multiple ridges and bargeboards, or large vernacular house… |
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| yawari 矢割 | A method of stone-splitting achieved by boring a hole in the stone. A wedge *kusabi… |
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| Yayoi jidai 弥生時代 | The Yayoi period (ca. 400 BCE to 250 CE). The period is marked by the establishment of rice cultivation and an agrarian… |
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| yō 様 | A suffix. When used in architectural history, it means a technical style, as in *… |
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| yodo 淀 | ✓ | Also yodogi 淀木 or yodonuki 淀貫. Tapered horizontal timber, 12-15 cm wide and 4.5 cm thick, placed on top of… |
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| yōjigane 楊枝鉄 | Also called chikara gane 力鉄 or kanehōzu-e 鉄方杖. |
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| yoko-ita 横板 | 1 Horizontal, parallel boards with a wood grain that runs sideways. In shrine architecture *… |
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| yokome-ita 横目板 | Also called *oshibuchi 押縁. Narrow, thin battens placed horizontally over… |
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| yokoshigezan 横繁桟 | ✓ | Closely spaced horizontal crosspieces commonly found on latticed doors *mairado… |
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| yokoshino 横篠 | ✓ | 1 The horizontal line of a bamboo joint. |
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| yokozan 横桟 | ✓ | Also called nakazan 中桟. A generic term for the parallel crosspieces used to frame doors, windows, and other… |
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| yokozando 横桟戸 | ✓ | A timber door frame into which horizontal boards are set. The seams tsugime 継目 are hidden by crosspieces nailed in… |
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| yomezuka 嫁束 | Also called *kirizuka 切束, komitatara 込たたら. A short strut… |
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| yoroido 鎧戸 | Also called gararido がらり戸. The horizontal, louver boards yoroi-ita 鎧板 of a door that run parallel to each… |
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| yosegi 寄木 | 1 The upper horizontal timber yosegi 寄木, in a transom, called *… |
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| yosejikii 寄敷居 | ✓ | Also called *tatamiyose 畳寄, or abbreviated to yose 寄. A horizontal timber level with… | Architecture, General Terms |
| yosemune yane 寄棟屋根 | ✓ | Also abbreviated to yosemune 寄棟, also called yotsuyane 四つ屋根. A hipped roof. A roof that descends from the… |
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| yosemune-zukuri 寄棟造 | Also called *shia 四阿 in the Nara period. Also komune-zukuri 小棟造, … |
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| yoshido 葭戸 | A sliding door or screen filled with reeds yoshi 葭 or ashi 葦, sometimes called match stick blinds, to admit summer… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| yoshigaki 葭垣 | Also ashigaki 葦垣. Also called yoshizubei 葭簀塀 or yoshizugaki 葭簀垣. A fence made of ditch reed … |
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| Yoshino jidai 吉野時代 | The Yoshino period. A seldom-used, rather old-fashioned term for the Southern and Northern Courts period *… |
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| yotesaki tokyō 四手先斗きょう | A 4-stepped bracket complex found mainly on the upper part of a *tahōtō 多宝塔.… |
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| yotsuya maruta 四谷丸太 | Also called yotsuya migaki maruta 四谷磨き丸太 or migaki maruta 磨き丸太. A cedar log stripped of its bark and then… |
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| yūgen 幽玄 | Lit. "profound mystery." A multivalent and influential medieval aesthetic ideal expressing darkness, depth, mystery,… |
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| yukachigai 床違 | Floors that have different levels. For example, the floor of the alcove *tokonoma… |
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| yukadaka 床高 | The distance from the top surface of a floor to the ground below. The term can also refer to the height of a building's… |
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| yukaura 床裏 | The space made by the joists *neda 根太, between the flooring of a second story and… |
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| yukazuka 床束 | Short struts placed on base stones beneath a floor to support the sleepers *ōbiki… |
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| yukimi shōji 雪見障子 | Also called *agesage shōji 上下障子 (up and down shōji). Lit. "snow… |
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| yumi ranma 弓欄間 | ✓ | Also called namiranma 波欄間 (wave-patterned slats), takewaki ranma 立涌欄間 (vertical billow-patterned slats in… |
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| yūri odaruki 遊離尾垂木 | ✓ | Separated tail rafters supported by fulcrums which in turn support long purlins at their mid point and at each end. They are… |
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| yuta-zukuri 雪打造 | Also written 雨打造. A style of architecture that employs pent roof. A common 13th-19th century expression for *… |
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