| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| takahei 高塀 | Also pronounced takahe. The gable walls of the central thatched portion kirizuma 切妻 of the roof *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| takahei-zukuri 高塀造り | Also pronounced takahe-zukuri. Lit. "high wall construction." Also called *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| takiguchi 焚口 | The stokehole or stokeholes in the side of a cooking range *kamado 竃. The… |
Architecture, Folk 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 | |
| tarukidake 垂木竹 | Bamboo rafters that span from the ridge *munagi 棟木 to the eave ends *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tateana jūkyo 竪穴住居 | A pit dwelling. Generally a house type with a sunken, excavated floor. Houses of this type existed in Japan from the Jōmon… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tateba 立て場 | 1 Small settlements between the larger officially recognized inn towns *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| teppōdoko 鉄砲床 | A term for an alcove or recess of the *oshi-ita 押板 type found in… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tokomise 床見世 | Also written 床店. A small shop *mise 店, or stall, used for retail… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tomobeya 伴部屋 | Also written 供部屋. A room used principally by the servants or attendants tomo 伴, 供 of high ranking visitors both as… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tōriniwa 通り庭 | ✓ | Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsuchido 土戸 | 1 In the Heian and Kamakura periods, a gate in a pise mud wall *tsuiji… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Storehouses | |
| tsuji 辻 | 1 A crossroads or intersection of two roads. See *zushi… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsukabumi 束踏 | 1 An alternative term for the base ridge *jimune 地棟. The base… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsunagibari 繋梁 | Lit. "connecting beam." 1 Also *geyabari 下屋梁. A short… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsuribeya 吊り部屋 | A small upper floor or mezzanine loft space *chūnikai 中二階, usually only about… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsushi nikai 厨子二階 | ✓ | Also read zushi nikai. A loft in the roof space of a single-story vernacular house *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| yakuba 役場 | 1 The parts of a stone wall such as exterior corners, top surfaces, or openings for drainage where… |
Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings | |
| yamatomune 大和棟 | An alternative term for a roof style found on Edo period farmhouses nōka 農家, called *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| yanakadake 屋中竹 | Also yamadake 屋間竹. The bamboo purlins, about 20-30 cm in circumference, that are placed about 30-36 cm apart over a… |
Architecture, Folk 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 |
| yoritsuki 寄付 | Also written 寄附. |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses | |
| yotsudate 四つ建て | Also *yoritsuki 寄付. A structural system found in farmhouses, nōka 農家, of the Edo… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| yūjoya 遊女屋 | The house of a procurer in the pleasure districts *yūkaku 遊廓 of Edo period… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| yūkaku 遊廓 | Also written 遊郭. The pleasure district of the early modern Japanese city. The earliest developed example is said to have… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
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