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tsuka 束 ✓

Also written 短束. Tsuka-no-ma 束の間 is a synonym for tsuka. An abbreviated form for tsukabashira 束柱…

Architecture, General Terms
tsukami 掴 ✓

Also hirakasugai 平鎹. Wood or metal cleats used to secure and strengthen the junction of the two sides of bargeboard…

Architecture, General Terms
tsukenoshi 附熨斗 ✓

Boards or tiles, tsukenoshi, set above and below the thick boards *aori-ita…

Architecture, General Terms
tsukiagedo 突上戸 ✓

Also tsurido, 釣戸 or 吊戸. A door or window that is hinged along the top. It swings out from the bottom, and is held…

Architecture, General Terms
tsukidomemizo 突止溝

The track grooves on a head jamb *kamoi 鴨居 and sill *…

Architecture, General Terms
tsukuriai 造合 ✓

The point where two downward sloping roofs meet to form a valley, under which gutters must be set to carry off rain water.…

Architecture, General Terms
tsuma-ita 妻板

Trim, molding, casings, cornices, etc. Trim at the edge of cupboards, doors, windows or on the sides of drawers. Also…

Architecture, General Terms
tsuma kudarimune 妻降棟 ✓

Also shortened to tsumakudari 妻降; also called hafu kudarimune 破風降棟 or shortened to hafukudari…

Architecture, General Terms
tsuma 妻

1 The gable pediment or the gable side of a building with a gable roof *…

Architecture, General Terms
tsumabari 妻梁 ✓

A transverse beam that is visible in a gable pediment *tsuma 妻. It is one example of a gable…

Architecture, General Terms
tsumado 妻戸

Also called kowakido 小脇戸. Because they were hinged, they are also called hirakido 開戸. A side entrance. A…

Architecture, General Terms
tsumairi 妻入 ✓

The entrance of a shrine or temple building in one of the gable ends *tsuma 妻, constructed in…

Architecture, General Terms
tsumakazari 妻飾 ✓

The embellishment of gable pediments *tsuma 妻 by exposed structural members that were part of…

Architecture, General Terms
tsumegumi 詰組 ✓

Intermediate bracket complexes. An arrangement of bracket complexes *tokyō…

Architecture, General Terms
tsunagi kōryō 繋虹梁

1 A short curved rainbow beam *kōryō 虹梁 that connects a bracket…

Architecture, General Terms
tsunaginuki 繋貫

A penetrating tie beam used to stabilize the lower part of exposed posts *subashira…

Architecture, General Terms
tsungomihozo 包込ほぞ

Also read tsukkomihozo. Also *sashikomihozo 差込ほぞ. Tsungomi…

Architecture, General Terms
tsura-ichi 面一

A perfectly smooth, absolutely flat, unblemished surface. The term is applied to timber or stone structural members.

Architecture, General Terms
tsura-ishi 面石 ✓

The exterior face of a stone rampart or a stone fence. In cases where both the front and back surfaces of a stone or wall…

Architecture, General Terms
tsuremitsudo 連三斗 ✓

Shortened form of tsure mitsudogumi 連三斗組. A variation of mitsudogumi 三斗組 (*…

Architecture, General Terms
tsuriaki 吊空

The gap between an opened door or gate stile and the pillar to which it is attached.

Architecture, General Terms
tsurigi 釣木 ✓

Also written 吊木; called tenjō tsurigi 天井釣木. Long narrow strips of wood, like straps, that provide support for a…

Architecture, General Terms
tsurikabe 釣壁

Also written 吊壁. A narrow wall suspended from a ceiling to form the front and side of a boundary for an alcove set in the…

Architecture, General Terms
tsurikanamono 釣金物

Also written 吊金物. Metal fittings that are used to suspend various types of structural members, which include: hanging struts…

Architecture, General Terms
tsurimoto kamachi 吊元框

Also called tsurimoto 吊元, jikumoto kamachi 軸元框. The stile, tatekamachi 縦框, of a door or gate…

Architecture, General Terms
tsurimoto karado 吊元唐戸

Also jikumoto karado 軸元唐戸; moroori ryōbiraki 両折両開. Two doors *…

Architecture, General Terms

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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