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| uchikaeshi 打返し | Also pronounced uttegaeshi 打って返し, utasegaeshi 打たせ返し. Perfect symmetry on both sides of a center line… |
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| uchikorobi 内転 | Pillars *hashira 柱 with an inward incline. Uchikorobi… |
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| uchikoshi daruki | ✓ | Rafters *taruki 垂木 that extend from the flying rafter support *… |
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| uchinorinuki 内法貫 | A penetrating tie beam *nuki 貫 placed directly on top of a door or… |
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| uchinorizai 内法材 | Also called uchinorimono 内法物. The wooden materials used for the framework of a sliding screen *… |
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| udegi 腕木 | 1 A relatively short horizontal timber that functions like a brace. It is attached to and extends outward… |
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| uguisubari 鴬張 | Lit. "nightingale floor." Floor boards which rub together when walked on to produce a pleasant and delicate sound. This type… |
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| ukegi 受木 | A generic term for all supporting or receiving structural members. For example, a timber that receives an eave cornice is… |
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| umegi 埋木 | Also read umeki. A wooden dowel or plug used to fill a hole in a piece of timber. If a knot or some other flaw… |
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| umemodoshi 埋戻 | To fill in any remaining open spaces with sand, gravel, soil, or other such substances, after the foundation and all… |
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| ura-ita 裏板 | A generic term for backing boards, which are boards nailed over rafters to form a backing for the roofing. In an open roof… |
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| uragaeshi-nuri 裏返塗 | Also called uragaeshi 裏返 or yobinuri 呼塗. Soft, rough plaster arakabe tsuchi 荒壁土 applied to… |
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| uragaya 裏茅 | Also urappo 裏穂. A thatching material used on vernacular dwellings *minka… |
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| uragō 裏甲 | ✓ | Visible eaves filler placed the eave support *kayaoi 茅負, and projected slightly… |
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| uragome 裏込 | Also read uragomi. The process of filling the gaps in the rear of a stone retaining wall or stone fence with rubble… |
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| urakabe 裏壁 | A plaster wall which has mud plaster applied to the front side and then to the rear side before the plaster on the front… |
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| urauchi marutagaki 裏打丸太垣 | Also called marutagaki 丸太垣. A fence constructed with logs positioned at fairly close intervals and three horizontal… |
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| urazan 裏桟 | A crosspiece used to secure the back or upper side of a ceiling board. |
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| urazumi 裏積 | Bricks or stones set at the back of a brick or stone wall to give it extra support. The term is an abbreviation of … |
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| ushibari 牛梁 | 1 A particularly large beam that runs in a longitudinal direction, ketayuki hōkō 桁行方向 (see *… |
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| ushirobutai 後舞台 | The rear stage between dressing rooms and the rear door of the main stage in a *kabuki… |
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| usushikii 薄敷居 | Lit. "thin sills." A lintel and sill used under and above transom *ranma 欄間.… |
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| utsubo-bashira 靫柱 | Also written 空柱. Lit. "hollow pillar." A box-like down-spout tatedoi 竪樋 used to carry rainwater from roof gutters… |
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| uwaba 上端 | Also called tenba 天端. |
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| uwabari 上張 | Also written 上貼, also called visible top layer keshōbari 化粧張, front side hyōmenbari 表面張 or finishing… |
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| uwanoki 上軒 | The upper-most eave of a nokizuke 軒付 or nokiba 軒端 eave end. Each part of the eave has a name. The… |
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| uwanuri 上塗り | 1 Also shiagenuri 仕上げ塗. The final layer applied to a decorative painting sōshoku kōji… |
Art History, Architecture, General Terms, Painting | |
| uwanuri tsuchi 上塗土 | The top or finishing coat of a mud plaster wall, tsuchimonokabe 土物壁 or ōtsukabe 大津壁. |
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| uyū 烏有 | ✓ | Also called tori-no-shita 鳥の舌 (lit. "bird's tongue"). A somewhat triangular piece of wood added to a bracket arm *… |
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| uzu-ita 渦板 | A board with a carved spiral-like uzusen 渦線 linear design. It is found on frog-leg struts *… |
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| yagura kemudashi 櫓煙出 | ✓ | Also written 櫓烟出. Also read yagura kemuridashi. An opening constructed in a thatched roof to allow the escape of… |
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| yaguranuki 櫓貫 | Commonly double-penetrating, diagonally placed beams that connect the main post *… |
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| yakata tenjō 屋形天井 | 1 A ceiling with the same pitch as the roof. Really, an exposed ceiling *… |
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| yakuba 役場 | 1 The parts of a stone wall such as exterior corners, top surfaces, or openings for drainage where… |
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| yamamichi katō 山道火灯 | A window used especially in the Zen style *zenshūyō 禅宗様; a type of ogival… |
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| yamato 大和 | ✓ | 1 An abbreviation for yamatouchi-no-to 大和打の戸 or yamatouchi 大和打. A door that has vertical… |
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| yamatobuki 大和葺 | ✓ | 1 A type of board roofing made by first spacing boards of equal width at predetermined intervals and then… |
Architecture, General Terms, Tea Houses |
| yane-ita 屋根板 | A generic name for various types of roofing boards including *noji-ita… |
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| yane kōzō 屋根構造 | ✓ | The construction of the roof framework or roof truss over the body of a building. The essential framing for a gable roof *… |
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| yane 屋根 | ✓ | Also called okugai 屋蓋, lit. "roof covering." A generic term for various types of roofs, roof styles, and roofing.… |
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| yanebuki 屋根葺 | Roofing or roof covering. The most commonly used types of roofing are clay tiles *… |
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| yanegae 屋根替 | Rethatching, retiling, or reshingling a roof whereby old roofing is replaced with new roofing. |
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| yanekugi 屋根釘 | Also kobanekugi 小羽根釘. Small round bamboo roofing nails, with a diameter between 2.1 to 2.8 mm and a length from 50… |
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| yaneura 屋根裏 | 1 See *keshō yaneura 化粧屋根裏. 2 An… |
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| yaraiko 矢来子 | The framing members of a fence. They may be vertical, horizontal, diagonal, or arranged to form squares or lozenges. A variety… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| yareigeta 破井桁 | ✓ | Lit. "broken well crib." Also yabureigeta. A design used for muntins *kumiko… |
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| yatsumune-zukuri 八棟造 | ✓ | Lit. "eight-ridge construction." A complicated roof style with multiple ridges and bargeboards, or large vernacular house… |
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| yawari 矢割 | A method of stone-splitting achieved by boring a hole in the stone. A wedge *kusabi… |
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| Yayoi jidai 弥生時代 | The Yayoi period (ca. 400 BCE to 250 CE). The period is marked by the establishment of rice cultivation and an agrarian… |
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| yō 様 | A suffix. When used in architectural history, it means a technical style, as in *… |
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| yodo 淀 | ✓ | Also yodogi 淀木 or yodonuki 淀貫. Tapered horizontal timber, 12-15 cm wide and 4.5 cm thick, placed on top of… |
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| yōjigane 楊枝鉄 | Also called chikara gane 力鉄 or kanehōzu-e 鉄方杖. |
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| yoko-ita 横板 | 1 Horizontal, parallel boards with a wood grain that runs sideways. In shrine architecture *… |
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| yokome-ita 横目板 | Also called *oshibuchi 押縁. Narrow, thin battens placed horizontally over… |
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| yokoshigezan 横繁桟 | ✓ | Closely spaced horizontal crosspieces commonly found on latticed doors *mairado… |
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| yokoshino 横篠 | ✓ | 1 The horizontal line of a bamboo joint. |
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| yokozan 横桟 | ✓ | Also called nakazan 中桟. A generic term for the parallel crosspieces used to frame doors, windows, and other… |
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| yokozando 横桟戸 | ✓ | A timber door frame into which horizontal boards are set. The seams tsugime 継目 are hidden by crosspieces nailed in… |
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| yomezuka 嫁束 | Also called *kirizuka 切束, komitatara 込たたら. A short strut… |
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| yoroido 鎧戸 | Also called gararido がらり戸. The horizontal, louver boards yoroi-ita 鎧板 of a door that run parallel to each… |
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| yosegi 寄木 | 1 The upper horizontal timber yosegi 寄木, in a transom, called *… |
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| yosejikii 寄敷居 | ✓ | Also called *tatamiyose 畳寄, or abbreviated to yose 寄. A horizontal timber level with… | Architecture, General Terms |
| yosemune yane 寄棟屋根 | ✓ | Also abbreviated to yosemune 寄棟, also called yotsuyane 四つ屋根. A hipped roof. A roof that descends from the… |
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| yosemune-zukuri 寄棟造 | Also called *shia 四阿 in the Nara period. Also komune-zukuri 小棟造, … |
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| yoshido 葭戸 | A sliding door or screen filled with reeds yoshi 葭 or ashi 葦, sometimes called match stick blinds, to admit summer… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| yoshigaki 葭垣 | Also ashigaki 葦垣. Also called yoshizubei 葭簀塀 or yoshizugaki 葭簀垣. A fence made of ditch reed … |
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| Yoshino jidai 吉野時代 | The Yoshino period. A seldom-used, rather old-fashioned term for the Southern and Northern Courts period *… |
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| yotesaki tokyō 四手先斗きょう | A 4-stepped bracket complex found mainly on the upper part of a *tahōtō 多宝塔.… |
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| yotsuya maruta 四谷丸太 | Also called yotsuya migaki maruta 四谷磨き丸太 or migaki maruta 磨き丸太. A cedar log stripped of its bark and then… |
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| yūgen 幽玄 | Lit. "profound mystery." A multivalent and influential medieval aesthetic ideal expressing darkness, depth, mystery,… |
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| yukachigai 床違 | Floors that have different levels. For example, the floor of the alcove *tokonoma… |
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| yukadaka 床高 | The distance from the top surface of a floor to the ground below. The term can also refer to the height of a building's… |
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| yukaura 床裏 | The space made by the joists *neda 根太, between the flooring of a second story and… |
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| yukazuka 床束 | Short struts placed on base stones beneath a floor to support the sleepers *ōbiki… |
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| yukimi shōji 雪見障子 | Also called *agesage shōji 上下障子 (up and down shōji). Lit. "snow… |
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| yumi ranma 弓欄間 | ✓ | Also called namiranma 波欄間 (wave-patterned slats), takewaki ranma 立涌欄間 (vertical billow-patterned slats in… |
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| yūri odaruki 遊離尾垂木 | ✓ | Separated tail rafters supported by fulcrums which in turn support long purlins at their mid point and at each end. They are… |
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| yuta-zukuri 雪打造 | Also written 雨打造. A style of architecture that employs pent roof. A common 13th-19th century expression for *… |
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