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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
sarumimi 猿耳 ✓

Lit. "monkey's ears." A pair of cleats that did not really resemble monkey's ears but rather the horns of a bull. The cleats…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
sashidoko 指床 ✓

Lit. "pointing to the alcove." Ceiling battens *saobuchi 竿縁 or thick straw…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
shikidai-no-ma 式台の間

Also written 色代の間. A room or building that projects from (or adjacent and linked by galleries to) the rear of the main…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
shikidai 式台

Also written 色代.

1 A low broad step or platform of timber, which had become a standard feature of the…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
shimochōzu 下手水

A toilet for servants. The toilet used by the elite or by the master in merchants housing was called jōchōzu 上手水.…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
shimodaidokoro 下台所

Lit. "lower kitchen."

1 The outermost part of the kitchen that functioned as a service zone in the…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
shimoyashiki 下屋敷

One of the residences granted to daimyō 大名 by the Edo government, as part of the system where feudal lords…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
shoin 書院 ✓

1 A large reception room developed in the Momoyama period, used by military leaders, daimyō …

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
takudana 卓棚

A set of decorative shelves used in an alcove. A single, high shelf with enclosed sliding doors is constructed slightly…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
tana 棚

Shelves.

1  A type of shelf, sometimes with a rack, of which there are many ordinary household…

Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings
tsukebashira 付柱

Also kobashira 小柱 or shoinbashira 書院柱. A post placed at the exterior corner of the alcove that…

Architecture, Aristocratic 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