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Title	Contains Image(s)	Description	Keywords
sabi さび		Also written 寂. 1　An idea of beauty particularly important in the tea ceremony and haiku 俳句…	Art History, Architecture, General Terms
sabikabe 錆壁		The finishing coat on a wall that consists of iron rust mixed with clay or plaster. Originally, old nails were boiled, and…	Architecture, General Terms
sadōguchi 茶道口	✓	Also written 茶堂口, 茶頭口; also chatateguchi 茶立口, or *katteguchi 勝手口.…	Architecture, Tea Houses
sagefuri 下振		Also called shōjiki 正直. A plumb line with a plumb bob, furiko 振子, at the lower end. The plumb bob is a…	Architecture, Tools
sagekiri 下げ切		A little used placement of the firebox ro 炉, in a tea ceremony room …	Architecture, Tea Houses
sagiashi 鷺足		Also sagi-no-ashi. Lit. "heron's leg." A type of long, curved leg found on a Chinese style desk, tōzukue…	Architecture, Decorations
saiben rengemon 細弁蓮華文		Lit. "narrow petal lotus motif." A motif with as many as twelve or sixteen narrow petals found on some circular pendant…	Architecture, Roofing Tiles
Saiendō 西円堂	✓	An octagonal hall at Hōryūji 法隆寺, Nara, which was destroyed by a typhoon in 1050. The structure was rebuilt in 1250. It is…	Architecture, Buildings, Structures
saijō 斎場		1　An area temporarily purified to erect temporary buildings and facilities for performing the *…	Architecture, Shrines
saikan 斎館		Also *kandachi 神館, shinkan 神館. 1　At Ise Jingū…	Architecture, Shrines
saikondō 西金堂		An image hall *kondō 金堂 situated to the west of a pagoda in temple grounds.…	Architecture, Buildings, Structures
Saimon 西門		An eight-legged *hakkyakumon 八脚門, 3-bay wide, 1-entrance gate with a gable…	Architecture, Gates
Saimyōji shiorido 西明寺枝折戸		Lit. "Saimyōji 西明寺-style latticed bamboo door." One type of raised lattice door *…	Architecture, Tea Houses
sakadono 酒殿	✓	Also misakedono 御酒殿; the prefix mi 御 is an honorific. 1　A shrine building specific to…	Architecture, Shrines
sakakibashira 逆木柱	✓	Also sakabashira 逆柱 or sakasabashira 逆さ柱. Lit. "upside down pillar." 1　An upside down…	Architecture, Decorations
sakazukimendo 杯面戸	✓	Also written 盃面戸. Sometimes called goki 呉器 or gokibame 呉器羽目. The space created between small bearing…	Architecture, General Terms
saku-itabei 柵板塀		A fence supported by posts along its rear side, usually with more than four posts per one bay. The facing boards are placed…	Architecture, General Terms
saku 柵		1　Fence. Read ki (also written 城) in the ancient period. A palisade of stakes aligned at regular…	Architecture, Castles
Sakuheimon 朔平門	✓	The Sakuheimon is the center gate on the north side of Kyoto Gosho 京都御所, during the end of the Heian period. It can be seen…	Architecture, Gates
Sakuteiki 作庭記		Lit. "Treatise on Garden Making." The oldest and most revered Japanese text on garden design, it was probably…	Architecture, Gardens, Document
sama 狭間	✓	Also read hasama. A loophole or porthole made in the wall of the keep, tower, or parapet to allow a castle to…	Architecture, Castles
samakubari 狭間配		Lit. "loophole distribution." The number of loopholes per two meter (one ken 間) interval in a castle. Also refers…	Architecture, Castles
samidare 五月雨		Lit. "fifth month rain." A geometric pattern used for fretwork muntins. The design is inspired by early summer rain, …	Architecture, Decorations
samisentsugi 三味線継	✓	A wooden splicing joint used for a beam. The length of the joint is 3x the height of the beam and the tenon *…	Architecture, Joints
samon 砂紋		Also read shamon. Lit. "sand crest." The technique of making a pattern or design in sand or gravel. The creation of…	Architecture, General Terms
san-no-tsuji 桟の辻		The junction points on a door or window frame where the top rail *kamigamachi…	Architecture, General Terms
san'yō 三葉		Lit. "three leaves." A decorative pattern carved into the shape of three leaves; used particularly for metal fittings found…	Architecture, Decorations
sanbari 桟梁	✓	The transverse beams placed in a row at right angle to the large header beams *kabuki…	Architecture, General Terms
sandandaki 三段滝		Lit. "three-stage waterfall." One common type of garden waterfall. Through the arrangement of earth and rocks, the waterfall…	Architecture, Gardens
sando 桟戸	✓	A simple door made of vertical planks with horizontal cross members that are about as wide as the vertical ties placed…	Architecture, General Terms
sane 実		1　A structural element or tenon that projects out from the end of a board, post, or beam. Such projecting…	Architecture, General Terms
sanehijiki 実肘木	✓	A purlin-bearing bracket arm; one that is inserted into the small bearing blocks *makito…	Architecture, General Terms
sangarado 桟唐戸	✓	Also read sankarado. Paneled entrance doors introduced from China in the 13th to 14th century. They are associated…	Architecture, General Terms
sangawara 桟瓦	✓	A pantile that combines a broad concave tile *hiragawara 平瓦 and a semi-cylindrical…	Architecture, Roofing Tiles
sangawarabuki 桟瓦葺	✓	Also called jigawara 地瓦 because it is a base tile; and kanryakugawara 簡略瓦 because it combines a broad…	Architecture, Roofing Tiles
sangedatsumon 三解脱門		Also *sanmon 三門. The most famous example is the very large 21.05 m x 9.72 m gate at Zōjōji 増上寺…	Architecture, Gates
sangen-ikko 三間一戸	✓	A 3 x 2 bay gate, often 8-legged style *hakkyakumon 八脚門, with entrance…	Architecture, Buildings, Structures
sangendō 三間堂	✓	A building with 3 bays on all four sides, commonly written 3 × 3 bays. The result is usually a square building. However,…	Architecture, Buildings, Structures
sanja-zukuri 三社造		Also called sangenyashiro or sangensha 三間社. A type of Shinto shrine. The main building *…	Architecture, Shrines
sanjū-no-tō 三重塔		Three-storied pagodas, most of which are made of wood, but a small percentage are made of stone. See *…	Architecture, Buildings, Sculpture
sanjū orekugi 三重折釘	✓	A nail that is bent in three tines at a ninety degree angle. Like the twice bent nail *…	Architecture, General Terms
sanjūbari 三重梁	✓	Roof framework composed of struts separating three tiers of transverse beams, each proportionately shortened in length than…	Architecture, General Terms
sanjūdana 三重棚	✓	1　Triple shelves. Shelves which now are rarely seen in a tea ceremony room except at Nishihonganji…	Architecture, Tea Houses
sankaku tōrō 三角灯篭		A variation on the *yukimi dōrō 雪見灯籠. This type of lantern is found in the…	Architecture, Lanterns
sankō tōrō 三光灯籠		An unusual lantern style found along the pond at Katsura Rikyū 桂離宮, Kyoto. It is a small, rectangular box-shaped lantern…	Architecture, Lanterns
sankoshomon 三鈷杵文		Lit. "three-prong pounder motif." Also called *kongōsho 金剛杵 (vajra pounder,…	Architecture, Roofing Tiles
sankyōmon 三きょう門		Also called sanren āchimon 三連アーチ門. A gate with three arches, made within a stone wall.	Architecture, Gates
sanmaidō 三昧堂		Also called nenbutsu sanmaidō 念仏三昧堂. Nenbutsu 念仏 prayers are recited, to obtain unity with *…	Architecture, Buildings, Structures
sanmen sōbō 三面僧房		Priest and monk dormitories constructed to the north, east and west of the lecture hall *…	Architecture, Buildings, Structures
sanmen zushi 三面厨子		A miniature shrine characterized by three doors, one placed at the front and one on each side of the structure. It contains…	Architecture, Accessories
sanmon 三門	✓	Also written 山門; often called *sangedatsumon 三解脱門 meaning enlightenment gate. Main gate…	Architecture, Gates
sannō torii 山王鳥居	✓	Also called hie torii 日吉鳥居, sōgō torii 総合鳥居, hafu torii 破風鳥居 or gasshō torii 合掌鳥居.…	Architecture, Shrines
sannojikuzushi 三の字崩	✓	A type of decorative pattern used for muntins on transoms *ranma 欄間. The design…	Architecture, Decorations
sanrō 山廊	✓	Also kirō 機廊. Small, single-storied, detached buildings on temple grounds constructed on each side of a two-…	Architecture, Buildings, Structures
sanrōsho 山籠所		Lit. "a place to go into seclusion." A shrine or temple where priests or laymen can retire alone to pray. However, special…	Architecture, Shrines
sansaiyū gawara 三彩釉瓦		Roof tiles glazed with more than two colors included various tones of brown, yellow and green which were the most commonly…	Architecture, Roofing Tiles
sanshigo 三四五	✓	Lit. "three, four, five." A large size right-angled carpenter's square, ōgane 大矩, with a ratio of 3:4:5 cm. The two…	Architecture, General Terms
sanzon iwagumi 三尊石組		Lit. "Buddhist triad stone arrangement." The grouping of one large stone with two smaller flanking stones that lean toward…	Architecture, Gardens
sao 竿		Lit. "a pole or rod." Aiso written 棹. 1　A lapped rod joint. The stacked tenon *…	Architecture, General Terms
saobiki dokko 竿引独鈷	✓	A long, lapped, rod-type tenon cut in the end of a rainbow beam *kōryō 虹梁, or…	Architecture, Joints
saobuchi 竿縁		A batten used to make a board and batten ceiling *saobuchi tenjō 竿縁天井.…	Architecture, Joints
saobuchi tenjō 竿縁天井	✓	Also written 棹縁天井. A board and batten ceiling. A simple ceiling made of light weight boards laid in one direction over…	Architecture, General Terms
saoshachitsugi 竿車知継	✓	Also saotsugi 竿継. Joint with long, rather slender tenons called saohozo 竿ほぞ (rod or pole tenons) and…	Architecture, Joints
sarato 皿斗	✓	Lit. "plate-like bearing block." A relatively flat, wooden block set beneath the large bearing block *…	Architecture, General Terms
saru 猿	✓	1　Monkey. The monkey is represented in kyōgen 狂言 by a masked and costumed figure. The monkey mask…	Sculpture, Art History, Architecture, General Terms
sarubashigo 猿梯子		Also called sanbashigo 桟梯子. A ladder made of wood or bamboo placed in an almost vertical position to reach the…	Architecture, General Terms
sarubō hisashi 猿頬廂	✓	Lit. "monkey head pent roof." A pent roof *hisashi 廂, with pentagonal members…	Architecture, General Terms
sarubō tenjō 猿頬天井	✓	A ceiling characterized by battens with six sides that are not all the same size. It is similar to a *…	Architecture, General Terms
sarudo 猿戸	✓	Lit. "monkey door." A type of bolted gate, called a wicket or a *kido 木戸, used at…	Architecture, Tea Houses
sarugashira kōran 猿頭高欄	✓	1　The pyramidal shaped top of a post on the handrail of a wooden bridge. If there is only a heavy base…	Architecture, General Terms
sarugashira 猿頭	✓	Lit. "monkey headpost." A general term for timber members of pentagonal cross-section, created by chamfering away the upper…	Architecture, General Terms
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
sasagaki 笹垣		Lit. "bamboo grass fence." A living fence or hedge made of low-growing, bamboo grass called kumazasa 熊笹, and…	Architecture, Gardens
sasaguri 笹繰		Concave curves carved out of the upper surface of the bracket arms *hijiki…	Architecture, Decorations
sasakanamono 笹金物	✓	Lit. "bamboo-grass metal fitting." A long, narrow, metal fitting *kanagu 金具,…	Architecture, Decorations
sasarageta 簓桁	✓	A string, or stringer. The boards set diagonally on each side of a staircase in order to receive the treads fumi-ita…	Architecture, General Terms
sasarako jitami 簓子下見	✓	Also called sasarako bame 簓子羽目. A traditional type of weather board used to cover exterior walls. The overlapping…	Architecture, General Terms
sasatōba 笹塔婆		A very small common type of memorial stupa that is made of bamboo-grass sasa 笹 and used in many parts of Japan.…	Architecture, General Terms
sashi-ishi 差石		Small, oblong (6-10 cm) or rectangular stones placed in the space below the bamboo wall base kabedomari 壁留り of the…	Architecture, Tea Houses
sashidoko 指床	✓	Lit. "pointing to the alcove." Ceiling battens *saobuchi 竿縁 or thick straw…	Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
sashigeta 指桁		Also called sashibari 指梁. The short visible purlins that jut beyond the barge course *…	Architecture, General Terms
sashihijiki 挿肘木	✓	Also written 差肘木 or 指肘木. One or more bracket arms *hijiki 肘木, inserted into the…	Architecture, General Terms
sashikake 差掛	✓	Also called sashikake yane 差掛屋根 or sashidashi 差出. A pent roof, shed roof or lean-to roof covering an…	Architecture, General Terms
sashiki 指木		Also written 差木 or 挿木. A generic term for the joining of timbers at right angle by inserting one into the other, most often…	Architecture, General Terms
sashikomihozo 差込ほぞ		A generic term meaning to insert, usually a tenon *hozo ほぞ into a mortise *…	Architecture, Joints
sashimoya 指母屋		Short purlins *keta 桁, about the length of one bay, inserted into the bargeboards…	Architecture, General Terms
sashimoyageta 指母屋桁		A short purlin *keta 桁, that extends from the second strut within a hidden roof…	Architecture, General Terms
sashimune 挿棟		Lit. "insert ridge." Also written 指棟. Short, exposed ridges *keshō munagi…	Architecture, General Terms
sasu 扠首	✓	1　Equivalent to *inokosasu 豕扠首 in shrine and temple…	Architecture, General Terms
sasubari 叉首梁	✓	Also sashibari 指梁. The transverse beam which supports the triangular framework *…	Architecture, General Terms
sasudai 叉首台		The horizontal base on which the diagonal braces *sasuzao 扠首竿 are placed in the gable of a…	Architecture, General Terms
sasugumi 扠首組		1　Diagonal braces *sasuzao 扠首竿, set on transverse beams *…	Architecture, General Terms
sasuri 摩		Flush or even surfaces. Surfaces that are on the same plane. For example, a threshold *shikii…	Architecture, General Terms
sasuzao 扠首竿		Also 扠首棹. The diagonal braces used to form the triangular frame in many gable pediments *…	Architecture, General Terms
sasuzuka 扠首束		Also keshōzuka 化粧束. 1　A short strut centered between the diagonal braces *…	Architecture, General Terms
satojiro 里城		A village castle. A medieval castle built in a low-lying village. Typically furnished with defensive installations.	Architecture, Castles
sawatobi 沢飛	✓	Lit. "marsh crossing." A path made of stepping stones *tobi-ishi 飛石 placed in…	Architecture, Gardens
saya-no-ma 鞘の間	✓	Also called ōiya 覆屋 or *kusari-no-ma 鎖の間. 1…	Architecture, General Terms
sayadō 鞘堂		Also ōidō 覆堂, ōiya 覆屋 or tōdō 套堂. Lit. "sheath hall." A building constructed over a shrine or…	Architecture, Buildings, Structures
sayagata 紗綾形	✓	A design pattern of interlocking swastikas, manji 万字 (卍). Most sources agree that the term (a contraction of sa…	Architecture, Decorations