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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
uchidashinomi 打出し鑿

A strike-through chisel. Normally, when constructing a pass-through mortise, the timber is carved away from both sides with…

Architecture, Tools
uragane 裏矩

Also called urame 裏目.
The scale marked on the back side of a carpenter's square, which is the square root of…

Architecture, Tools
yariganna 槍鉋

A plane thought to have been the only plane employed in ancient times to pare and finish timber. Today carpenters do not use…

Architecture, Tools
yasuri 鑢

U-shaped metal pieces nailed to a gate, allowing it to be locked with a sliding timber gate-bar *…

Architecture, Tools
yokobikinoko 横挽鋸 Also read yokobiki nokogiri. A crosscut saw. A saw used for cutting wood across the grain. Architecture, Tools

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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