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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
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…

Architecture, General Terms
raigōkabe 来迎壁 ✓

Also called raigōheki. A clay or wooden wall erected behind a Buddhist altar *…

Architecture, General Terms
raimon kōshi 雷文格子

Lattice arranged in a fret pattern, used especially on railings of balconies.

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
ranzumi 乱積

Also called *ransekizumi 乱石積, waraizumi 笑い積. Randomly piled…

Architecture, General Terms
renjimado 連子窓

Also written 櫺子窓. Lit. "a row lath window."

1 A window with vertical or horizontal wooden laths or…

Architecture, General Terms
rensō 連窓

Multiple windows. Two or more windows connected horizontally, or windows connected within one frame window with vertical…

Architecture, General Terms
rensōmado 連双窓 ✓

Rensōmado means double windows. Two windows in line. Also called *meotomado…

Architecture, General Terms
rō 廊

A roofed corridor or passageway that connects one structure to another. It may also encompass an open area. There are…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
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 *…

Architecture, General Terms
rodai 露台 ✓

1 An unroofed platform, a dais, or a projected veranda or balcony.
2 A nobleman's…

Architecture, General Terms
rōka 廊下

1 A hallway or corridor within a building giving access to various rooms.
2 A…

Architecture, General Terms
roku 陸

Also riku. A synonym for suihei 水平 meaning level.
1 Level building timbers.
…

Architecture, General Terms
rokuchū-zukuri 六注造

Also called rokkaku yane 六角屋根. A six-sided roof that covers an hexagonal building *…

Architecture, General Terms
rōkyō 廊橋

Also called hashirō 橋廊. A covered bridge, often with a resting place at the central point. Rōkyō can…

Architecture, General Terms
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.
A flying rafter *…

Architecture, General Terms
ryōbiraki 両開

Also *kannonbiraki tobira 観音開扉, double doors that open in one…

Architecture, General Terms
ryōkusabi 両楔

Wedges used on the right and left sides to strengthen and to secure a penetrating tie beam inserted into a pillar.

Architecture, General Terms
ryōsage 両下

A type of gable roof *kirizuma-zukuri 切妻造. Also called…

Architecture, General Terms
ryūsha 竜車

Lit. "dragon vehicle." The round or oval section of a pagoda finial *sōrin…

Architecture, General Terms
ryūyōdana 柳葉棚 ✓

Lit. "willow leaf shelf."
A single decorative shelf constructed a little below the cabinets, tenbukuro 天袋,…

Architecture, General Terms
zaimoku 材木 Timber prepared for construction. Architecture, General Terms
zashiki kazari 座敷飾

The *zashiki 座敷 is a guest room; its name deriving from that of the mat…

Architecture, General Terms
Zenshū bijutsu 禅宗美術

The general term used for any art related to the practice of Zen 禅 Buddhism in Japan. Zen flourished in Japan in the…

Art History, General Terms
zenshūyō 禅宗様

A style of architecture imported from China during the Song dynasty. It includes the architectural elements that came with…

Architecture, General Terms
Zenshūyō kōran 禅宗様高欄 ✓

Also called Karayō kōran 唐様高欄. A railing or balustrade *kōran 高欄 with…

Architecture, General Terms
Zenshūyō tokyō 禅宗様斗きょう ✓

Also called Karayō tokyō 唐様斗きょう. A Zen style bracket complex. The bracket arms *…

Architecture, General Terms
zetsu 舌 ✓

Lit. "tongue." A thin ornamental molding *kurigata 繰形, carved on the bottom…

Architecture, General Terms
zōkinzuri 雑巾摺 ✓

Also called hōkizuri 掃摺 or zōkindome 雑巾留. A long thin finishing board, similar to a base board, that is…

Architecture, General Terms
zōsaku 雑作

Also witten 造作.
All non-permanent parts of a Japanese building in contrast to those parts that are permanent and…

Architecture, General Terms
zuan 図案

A rough sketch of a building plan including, floor plans, elevations, the placement of doors and windows, etc.

Architecture, General Terms
zushi 厨子

1 A miniature shrine in which Buddhist images or rolls of sutras kyō 経 are kept. Reliquary…

Architecture, General Terms

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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