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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
yanagidana 柳棚

Lit. "willow shelf." An asymmetrical arrangement of three decorative shelves tokowakidana 床脇棚 arranged in the…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
yokoza 横座

1 The seat of the principal and most honored guest sonsha 尊者 at formal banquets in the shinden…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
yorikimado 与力窓 ✓

1 A rectangular window used in exterior walls, fitted with thick horizontal timber bars *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
yūgiridana 夕霧棚

An arrangement of three staggered shelves in the upper half of the recess *tokowaki…

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