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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
shakemachi 社家町

A township composed of *shake 社家, families who held posts (usually hereditary) as…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
shikibari 敷梁

Also *ushibari 牛梁, nakahikibari 中引梁, ushihikibari 牛引梁, …

Architecture, Folk 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
shimomise 下店

1 A room in the front *shimote 下手 corner of the earth-floored…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
shishimado 獅子窓

1 A large window in the front wall frame of a principal living room *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
shukubamachi 宿場町

A type of settlement or township which developed along major trunk roads during the medieval and early modern periods,…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
shukuya 宿屋

A vernacular house *minka 民家, in the style known as *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
shukuya-zukuri 宿屋造

1 A term for a style of vernacular residence *minka 民家, with…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
sodeudatsu 袖卯立 ✓

Lit. "sleeve udatsu." Extensions of the gable parapet walls *udatsu 卯立…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
sudomon 簀戸門

Lit. "latticed door gate." A type of garden gate which features lattice, or basket-work of split bamboo. Varieties include…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
suzumeodori 雀踊 ✓

Lit. "sparrow dance." A widely-used term for a range of elements used to decorate the ridge of the roof in vernacular houses…

Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings
uchigenkan 内玄関

A subordinate entry in houses possessing a formal guest entry *genkan 玄関, and…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
udatsu-bashira うだつ柱

1 A wide post at the interface between the earth-floored space *doma…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
udatsu 卯立 ✓

Also written 卯建, 宇立, うだつ; all read udachi, odatsu, or odachi.

1 A term…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
udatsuya うだつ屋

1 A rudimentary thatched dwelling hut or ancillary structure with a gable roof *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
umaya 馬屋 ✓

A stable. Also written 厩. Also maya 馬屋 or 厩, keiya けいや, and kyūsha 厩舎. Applied to both a…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
ushibari 牛梁

1 A particularly large beam that runs in a longitudinal direction, ketayuki hōkō 桁行方向 (see *…

Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings
ushiroya chūmon 後屋中門

A rear wing which extends from the main structure of a folk dwelling *minka…

Architecture, Gates, Folk Dwellings
usuniwa 臼庭 ✓

1 An alternative term for all or part of the earth-floored area, *doma…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
usuya 臼屋

1 A small-scale freestanding structure containing a mortar or hand mill, usu 臼, for pounding rice…

Architecture, 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