| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| sugido 杉戸 | ✓ | Also called sugishōji 杉障子. Doors made of Japanese cedar. Sugido constructed in the shoin style *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| sugikawabuki 杉皮葺 | Buildings roofed with cedar bark shingles which resemble cypress bark roofing *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| suguhafu 直破風 | Bargeboards that have straight lines instead of the usual curves. There are two curved types: *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| suhama onigawara 州浜鬼瓦 | ✓ | Also written 須浜鬼瓦, also suhamagata onigawara 州浜形鬼瓦 or suhama 州浜. A dumbbell-shaped tile that is bent in… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| suiboku sansuigashiki teien 水墨山水画式庭園 | Lit. "garden in the style of ink monochrome landscape painting." A modern term used for Chinese style dry gardens *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| suien 水煙 | ✓ | Four decorative metal pieces attached at right angle to the metal sheathing that covers the tapered extended central pillar… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| suihei kajū 水平荷重 | Also yokokajū 横荷重. A lateral load. A structural element that carries horizontally the weight of a load. The… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| suihei 水平 | Suihei means water level or horizontal; also a perpendicular or vertical line made by ink dispensed by the string… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| suirin 水輪 | Lit. "water ring." The spherical second story of the five-ring pagoda *gorintō… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| suirinbashira 水輪柱 | ✓ | Suirinbashira are the outer circle of pillars that divide the exterior pillars from the core *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| suitsuki arizan 吸付蟻桟 | ✓ | Also arizan 蟻桟, suitsukizan 吸付桟 or suitsukiari 吸付蟻. A long, narrow dovetail tenon *… |
Architecture, Joints |
| sujikai 筋違 | Diagonal bracing set between the major posts that form the framework of a building wall. Their purpose is to strengthen and… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| sujikebiki 筋毛引 | A carpentry gauge used to mark accurate, parallel lines on pillars, door frames and planks, or to accurately redraw the… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| sukashi kaerumata 透蟇股 | ✓ | Also called *kurinuki kaerumata 刳抜蟇股. A frog-leg strut that is… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| sukashibori ranma 透彫欄間 | ✓ | Also called sukashi-ita ranma 透板欄間, sukashi ranma 透欄間, itabori ranma 板彫欄間 and sukashikumi… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| sukashigaki 透垣 | Lit. "see-through fence." A generic term for any kind of fence through which one can see. This type of open fence is used as… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| sukiuchiumon 透打門 | A type of gate for temporary wooden enclosures. It is characterized by the attachment of horizontal, diagonal or vertical… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| sukiya 数奇屋 | A tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室 distinguished from a genuine tea ceremony… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| sukiya-zukuri 数奇屋造 | A variation of the *shoin 書院 residence; a mansion or a country house for the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| sumaru 素丸 | A term used by tile makers and setters instead of *marugawara 丸瓦, meaning a… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| sumi-ishi 隅石 | ✓ | Also read kado-ishi 角石. Lit. "corner stone." Long, rectangularly-hewn stones laid horizontally at the corners of a… |
Architecture, Castles |
| sumi karakusagawara 隅唐草瓦 | Also nokisumigawara 軒隅瓦. Broad concave pendant tiles used at the eave ends of hip rafters *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| sumi kudarimune 隅降棟 | ✓ | Also sumimune 隅棟. A descending corner ridge. A built-up ridge made of tile that follows the downward course of… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| sumibashira 隅柱 | ✓ | Also called kakubashira 角柱. A corner post or pillar that is square or rectangular. |
Architecture, General Terms |
| sumichigai 隅違い | 1 A term referring to the arrangement of the utensils employed during a tea ceremony. Specifically, … |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| sumidomoe 隅巴 | Also called honsumigawara 本隅瓦; sumi tomoegawara 隅巴瓦. A half-round, corner, eave-end, pendant tile; also… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| sumigawara 墨瓦 | ✓ | Also called corner eave tiles, noki-no-sumigawara 軒の隅瓦. A general term for the tiles used at the corner of a… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| sumigi futagawara 隅木蓋瓦 | ✓ | A long, narrow, rectangular tile cover used to protect the edge of a hip rafter from weathering. It is conjectured that… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| sumigi-no-fure 隅木の振 | Also called furezumi 振隅. The degree of roof deflection on a roof that has a different degree of incline on the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| sumigi 隅木 | ✓ | Also called sumidaruki 隅垂木 and ōdaruki大垂木. A hip rafter or corner rafter that forms a diagonal ridge which… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| sumigisaki gawara 隅木先瓦 | Decorative clay tiles shaped to fit snugly over the crosscut, exposed end of a hip rafter, sumigi daruki 隅木垂木. The… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| sumihijiki 隅肘木 | Also called *sumiyuki hijiki 隅行肘木, or ushihijiki 牛肘木. A corner… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| sumijiri-ishi 隅尻石 | Lit. "corner tail stone." The stone that butts against the rear face tomozura 友面 of the corner stone *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| sumikake 墨掛 | The ink identification marks on a large timber which indicated where it is to be cut into planks, pillars, rafters, ridge,… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| sumimendo gawara 隅面戸瓦 | Also sumimendo 隅面戸. A roof tile fillet. An asymmetric fillet positioned below the corner descending ridge *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| suminawa 墨縄 | Also known as sumi-ito 墨糸. A carpenter's inking line. It is used for drawing a reference line (the procedure is… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| sumioyabashira 隅親柱 | The end or corner newel post of a railing *kōran 高欄. The post is topped by a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| sumiro 隅炉 | One of several arrangements for positioning the fire-box *ro 炉 or fixed hearth in a… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| sumisashi 墨刺 | Also written 墨芯. A bamboo brush or drawing spatula. The tip of a piece of bamboo is sharpened into a pallet shape and then… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| sumisonae 隅備 | ✓ | Also written 隅具. Also called sumitokyō 隅斗きょう. A bracket complex *tokyō… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| sumitoridana 隅取棚 | Also sumidana 隅棚. An ornamental, triangular shelf made to fit into the corner of a decorative alcove *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| sumitsubo 墨壷 | Carpenter's ink pot, or ink pad. The sumitsubo, unlike other carpentry tools, does not have a fixed shape or size.… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| sumiumadashi 隅馬出 | A castle entrance barrier *umadashi 馬出, erected at the corner of an… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| sumiyagura 隅櫓 | ✓ | A corner tower. Also written 角櫓. A timber-framed tower set on the corner of a castle wall where two stone walls jut out. In… |
Architecture, Castles |
| sumiyoshi torii 住吉鳥居 | A stone gate-like entrance, torii of the myōjin type *myōjin… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| sumiyoshi-zukuri 住吉造 | A style of main sanctuary *honden 本殿 in Shinto shrine… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| sumiyuki hijiki 隅行肘木 | Also called *sumihijiki 隅肘木, tsunohijiki 角肘木 and ushihijiki… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| sumiyukibari 隅行梁 | A beam that runs parallel to a hip rafter, also called a common rafter *sumigi 隅木, or any… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| sunasetchin 砂雪隠 | Lit. "sand toilet." Originally a functioning toilet for use during tea gatherings, it later became a purely ornamental… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| sunazuri 砂摺 | A plaster coating on a storehouse wall about 4.5 mm thick. Traditionally the mixture by volume was 10 parts of sand, 15… |
Architecture, Storehouses | |
| sundori 寸取 | Also suntori; also called issundori 一寸取, sun-osae 寸押 and sunkazoe 寸数. A method of… |
Architecture, Measurement | |
| sunoko 簀子 | ✓ | A slatted floor or duckboard floor made of boards or bamboo laid parallel with space between; each board is called … |
Architecture, General Terms |
| sunokogumi 簀組 | Bracket complexes constructed beneath a veranda to give it support. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| sunuki 簀貫 | A penetrating beam used as the backing and bracing for the various layers of plaster in the thick walls of a storehouse *… |
Architecture, Storehouses | |
| suriage shōji 摺上障子 | ✓ | Also written 摺揚障子. Also called *agesage shōji 上下障子. |
Architecture, General Terms |
| susa すさ | Written susa 寸莎. Also tsuta つた. A generic term for fibrous substances, including straw, hemp, or paper… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| sushiki 素式 | 1 A wall with an entirely flat white surface. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| sute-ishi 捨石 | Lit. "discarded stone." One of the seven trump stones *nanatsu-ishi… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| sutebori 捨堀 | Moats dug in open areas some distance from a castle, to hinder the advance of enemy forces. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| suteguruwa 捨郭 | A sacrificial compound constructed in front of a main compound. A camp used to launch an attacking force. When a force moves… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| sutemayu 捨眉 | A type of molding *kurigata 繰形 incised on the lower edge of a… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| suteto 捨斗 | ✓ | Also sutedo. A bracket *tokyō 斗きょう that has the same… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| Suzakumon 朱雀門 | The front gate at the center of the south end of the outer enclosure that surrounded the palace compound at Heijō-kyō 平城京… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| suzumeguchi 雀口 | ✓ | Lit. "sparrow entrance, exit." A gap under the eave end tiles *nokisakigawara… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| 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 |
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