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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 …

Architecture, General Terms
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.…

Architecture, General Terms
yotsudate 四つ建て

Also *yoritsuki 寄付. A structural system found in farmhouses, nōka 農家, of the Edo…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
yotsumegaki 四目垣 ✓

Lit. "four-eyed fence." A generic name for a bamboo lattice fence. The poetic name derives from the quadrant of lozenge…

Architecture, Gardens
yotsutome 四留

Also pronounced yotsudome. An angled joint *shiguchi 仕口, composed of…

Architecture, Joints
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…

Architecture, General Terms
yu-engata 油煙形 ✓

Also kōmorigata 蝙蝠形. A decorative pattern similar to the shapes found on a foliate-panel, shape *…

Architecture, Decorations
yugamibashira 歪柱

Also called *magaribashira 曲柱. Lit. "crooked or bent post." Posts that…

Architecture, Tea Houses
yūgiridana 夕霧棚

An arrangement of three staggered shelves in the upper half of the recess *tokowaki…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
yugitō 瑜祇塔

Lit. "jewel, prayer, pagoda."
Also called gohō hatchū 五峯八柱, lit. "five peaks, eight pillars." A circular…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
yūitsu shinmei zukuri 唯一神明造

Lit. "the unique shinmei style." A style of Shinto Shrine architecture characterized by the main sanctuaries *…

Architecture, Shrines
yuiwata gegyo 結綿懸魚 ✓

A type of gable pendant *gegyo 懸魚, decorated with a sculpture resembling a floss…

Architecture, Decorations
yuiwata 結綿 ✓

1 Also *watabana 綿花, *…

Architecture, Decorations
yuiwatagashira 結綿頭

Also gyakurengashira 逆蓮頭. A type of carved decoration found on the tops of newel posts *…

Architecture, Decorations
yūjoya 遊女屋

The house of a procurer in the pleasure districts *yūkaku 遊廓 of Edo period…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
yukachigai 床違

Floors that have different levels. For example, the floor of the alcove *tokonoma…

Architecture, General Terms
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…

Architecture, General Terms
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
yukaura 床裏

The space made by the joists *neda 根太, between the flooring of a second story and…

Architecture, General Terms
yukazuka 床束

Short struts placed on base stones beneath a floor to support the sleepers *ōbiki…

Architecture, General Terms
yukidomariguruwa 行留郭

A cul-de-sac compound. A long and narrow castle compound with only one gateway entrance which turns into a blind alley.…

Architecture, Castles
yukidome 雪止め

Lit. "a snow stop." 
1 A curved handle-like piece attached to the broad concave parts of a pantile…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
yukimi dōrō 雪見灯籠

An unusual type of lantern. Like the *oribe dōrō 織部灯籠, its form is…

Architecture, Lanterns
yukimi shōji 雪見障子

Also called *agesage shōji 上下障子 (up and down shōji). Lit. "snow…

Architecture, General Terms
Yumedono 夢殿

Lit. "Hall of Dreams." A large octagonal hall *hakkakudō 八角堂, in the…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
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…

Architecture, General Terms
yumimayu 弓眉 ✓

A type of carved molding found on the lower edges of rainbow beams *kōryō …

Architecture, Decorations
yumiyaeda 弓矢枝

Lit. "bow and arrow branches." The arrangement of a tree trunk and branches in which one branch grows up from the trunk then…

Architecture, Gardens
yuniwa 斎庭

Also *saijō 斎場. A place to perform purification rituals and to worship the…

Architecture, Shrines
yuoke-ishi 湯桶石

Also called yutōseki, katakuchi-ishi 片口石, yuage-ishi 湯揚げ石, and oke-ishi 桶石. Lit. "warm…

Architecture, Tea Houses
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…

Architecture, General Terms
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 *…

Architecture, General Terms
yūyakugawara 釉薬瓦

A generic term for glazed roof or wall tiles.

Architecture, Roofing Tiles

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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