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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
wachigaigawara 輪違瓦 ✓

Also tsumegawara 爪瓦. A row of narrow tile pieces cut crosswise from semi-cylindrical tiles *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
wajō 倭城

A Japanese castle. Refers to 25 castles constructed in various regions of Korea by the Japanese forces during the Bunroku-…

Architecture, Castles
wakaba 若葉 ✓

1 An abstract decorative pattern of extended curved lines based on the form of a leaf. The pattern is…

Architecture, Decorations
wakiagari 脇上 ✓

The wakiagari allowed visitors to enter or leave the residence from a waiting palanquin kago 駕篭 without…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
wakidana 脇棚 ✓

Shelves forming part of an arrangement in the space next to the decorative alcove *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
wakido 脇戸 ✓

A small door, usually beside the main door of a structure. Sometimes there is one on each side of the main door.

Architecture, General Terms
wakiganna 脇鉋

A plane used to smooth the sides of a groove, particularly in a doorsill or lintel, after the base plane, *…

Architecture, Tools
wakigegyo 脇懸魚

Lit. "side gable pendant." Also *kudarigegyo 降懸魚, *…

Architecture, Decorations
wakihonjin 脇本陣

A secondary *honjin 本陣, authorized by the Tokugawa 徳川 government for the…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
wakijin 脇陣

Side sanctuary. Areas beside the main hall *hondō 本堂 of a Buddhist…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
wakikoguchi 脇虎口

A side entrance to a castle. A small, inconspicuous entrance located on the side of a castle, in contrast with the main gate…

Architecture, Castles
wakikokabe 脇小壁

A long, narrow, vertical wall constructed between two or more pillars, or on each side of an entrance or a window.

Architecture, General Terms
wakimon 脇門

Also read *ekimon 掖門. A side gate or a small gate on one or both sides of a…

Architecture, Gates
wakishōji 脇障子

Wooden screens placed at the back ends of side verandas *en 縁. They…

Architecture, General Terms
wakizura 脇面

The left and right sides of a purlin *keta 桁.

Architecture, General Terms
waku 枠

A frame constructed around the perimeter of a window or doorway; the opening into which sliding panels and other structural…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
wakugi 和釘

Also called nihon kugi 日本釘. A square nail used during and after the Kofun period. The nail was made of hand-wrought…

Architecture, General Terms
wakuhijiki 枠肘木

Two bracket arms *hijiki 肘木 positioned at right angle to one…

Architecture, General Terms
wanagi hozo 輪薙ほぞ

A tenon referred to as channeled or as fingered. It is used on king posts *shinzuka…

Architecture, Joints
wanagikomi 輪薙込

Wanagikomi is an angle joint, also called an open mortise and tenon joint, a slip slot or finger mortise. It…

Architecture, Joints
warabite 蕨手 ✓

Also warabide. A style of ornamentation which features a curved design based on curling bracken shoots. It is found…

Architecture, Decorations
waranawa 藁縄

1 Rope made by twisting together strands of straw. In clay statuary, the central wooden core *…

Art History, General Terms, Architecture, Sculpture
waraza 藁座 ✓

1 Also called enza, maruza 円座, or ukeza kanamono 受座金物. The metal or…

Architecture, General Terms
waridakebari 割竹張

To cover or enclose with split bamboo. For example, found on the doors of a simple garden gate teimon 庭門 with a…

Architecture, General Terms
wariguri-ishi 割栗石

Also called wariguri 割栗, kuri-ishi 栗石 or guri ぐり (lit. "stones crushed like chestnuts"). Rock…

Architecture, General Terms
warihada 割肌

The surface of a member that was split vertically by pounding in a wedge *kusabi…

Architecture, Joints
warihaiden 割拝殿 ✓

Lit. "divided worship hall." A long structure under a single roof divided in the center by a passageway *…

Architecture, Shrines
warikebiki 割毛引

Lit. "splitting gauge." The splitting gauge is used to mark thin pieces of wood along the grain so that it can be broken…

Architecture, Tools
warikusabi 割楔

1 An extremely strong joint that uses a blind wedge-split tenon warikusabi hozo 割楔ほぞ to join two…

Architecture, Joints
warima 割間

The interval between the vertical slats *tateko 竪子 and horizontal…

Architecture, Gardens
wata-ita 綿板

Also called *ireko-ita 入子板. A board that connects the rails and crosspieces…

Architecture, General Terms
watabana 綿花

Also written 綿鼻. A molding *kurigata 繰形 in the shape of a silk-…

Architecture, Decorations
watari yagura 渡櫓 ✓

1 A connecting gallery or tower inside a square compound *masugata…

Architecture, Castles
watariago 渡腮

Also called *agokaki 腮欠, agokake 腮掛. A cogged right-angled joint…

Architecture, Joints
wayō 和様

1 Lit. "Japanese style architecture." The architectural techniques and styles introduced from China during…

Architecture, General Terms, Art History
wayō hijiki 和様肘木 ✓

A bracket arm *hijiki 肘木 that is characterized by curved surfaces on the…

Architecture, General Terms
wayō kōran 和様高欄 ✓

A railing in the wayō style *wayō 和様. The horizontal…

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