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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
busshudana 仏守棚 Lit. Buddha protecting shelf. A type of decorative shelf with sliding-door cabinets on the bottom and an ogee-shaped… Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
chōdai-no-ma 帳台の間

A small enclosed room in a large *shoin 書院 style structure built in the…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
chōdai 帳台

1 A curtained sleeping platform used by those of highest rank in shinden style *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
chōdaigamae 帳台構え

1 A built-in ornamental doorway found in the raised area *jōdan…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
chūdan 中段

Middle area. In upper class residences especially from the Momoyama period and through the Edo period, seating was…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
chūmonrō 中門廊

1 A Heian-period corridor intersected by gates. In the most elaborate Heian-period shinden style…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
daiban 台盤

A long, low, rectangular table on which food was served in the emperor's residential compound, Dairi 内裏, of the imperial…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
daibandokoro 台盤所

A room that contains a *daiban 台盤, a long, low, rectangular table on which food…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
daidokoro 台所

1 Believed to be an abbreviated form of *daibandokoro…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
dei 出居

An abbreviated form of idei-no-za 出居座, lit. lodging without, lodging away from the main structure of a residence.…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
fudegaeshi 筆返し ✓

A curved wooden border attached to the end of a desk or shelf to prevent brushes and scrolls from rolling off. It is also…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
gedan 下段

Lit. low step. The lowest level of floor space in a formal *shoin 書院 style room…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
gusokudana 具足棚

Lit. Shelves to display armor. They are placed next to an alcove *tokonoma…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
gyobutsudana 御物棚

A set of double cabinets with four sliding door panels attached to the ceiling next to the decorative alcove *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
hirashoiin 平書院

One type of window used in a shoin style room *shoin-zukuri 書院造.…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
hiroma 広間

1 The generic term used for a large room occupying the full cross section of a building in Edo period…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings
hiroshiki 広敷

1 Part of the kitchen and private residential zone of an Edo period daimyō 大名 residence.

…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
ichi no ma 一の間

Lit. room one. The innermost and most prestigious room, six to twelve straw mats *tatami…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
jibukuro 地袋 ✓

A small cabinet with sliding doors at the bottom of open, often split-level shelves *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
jihiro 地火炉

Also read jikaro.

1 A hearth *ro 炉 excavated in…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
jōdan 上段 ✓

A dais or a part of the floor in aristocratic dwellings of the *shoin 書院 style,…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
jōjōdan 上々段 ✓

A relatively small space elevated one step higher than the *jōdan 上段,…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
kamidaidokoro 上台所

Lit. upper kitchen.



1 The room or building in which the final stages of food preparation took…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
kanmuridana 冠棚 ✓

Also called kanmuridai 冠台 or kanmurishoku 冠卓.



1 A light shelf of unusual…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
kiyodokoro 清所

Lit. office of purification. Often synonymous with *kamidaidokoro上台所, *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
kobusuma 小襖

The small, opaque, paper-framed sliding doors found on cupboards above or below shelving adjacent to the alcove *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
kuriya 厨

1 A cooking structure which houses a cooking range *kamado…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
kusa-no-ma 草の間

A passage used by grooms in *shoin 書院 style stables *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
miaraka 御殿

Also written 御舎. The emperor's palace or dwellings of the upper class in the proto-historic and early historic periods. The…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
mihashi 御階

The term for steps constructed at the center front of two important imperial palace buildings in Kyoto Gosho 京都御所, the…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
mikawamizu 御溝水

Also mikawa 御溝. Ditches surrounding each building in the Imperial Palace. The present palace, Kyoto Gosho 京都御所, has…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
misubusuma 御簾襖

A variation on the usual style of opaque sliding partitioning screen *fusuma …

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
mizushidokoro 御厨子所

1 A part of the emperor's residential compound Dairi 内裏 in the Imperial Palace, Kyoto Gosho 京都御所. The…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
mushamado 武者窓 ✓

Also bukemado 武家窓, bugyōmado 奉行窓. Edo period windows with heavy vertical lattice bars, used in castle…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
nurigome 塗篭

1 A sleeping space used by the master and mistress of the house, enclosed with solid plaster walls, usually…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
ochima 落間

Also kiriotoshi 切落.

1 A generic term for a floor that is lower than the main floor of a…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
okuzashiki 奥座敷

1 A general term for the final or innermost room of a *shoin 書院…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
omote 表

Lit. "the front, surface, or exterior of something."
1 The front part of a house and the area around the…

Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
onari goten 御成御殿

A generic term used from the Muromachi through the Edo periods to indicate facilities provided for the visit of a shogun to…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
oshi-ita 押板

1 A low four-legged table used in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods in upper class priestly and lay…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
osue 御末

Also written 男末.
1 A writing and service room for servants responsible for household chores in either…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
oue 御上

1 The wife of a member of the upper classes and her living chambers. The term, used in the Muromachi period…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
oyudono-ue 御湯殿上

A room connected to the *oyudono 御湯殿 where utensils for the emperor's meals were kept.…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
oyudono 御湯殿

1 A north room in the western pent-roof structure *hisashi 廂…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
ryōri-no-ma 料理の間

1 The part of the kitchen where the finishing stages of food preparation took place and where meals were…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
sarumimi 猿耳 ✓

Lit. "monkey's ears." A pair of cleats that did not really resemble monkey's ears but rather the horns of a bull. The cleats…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
sashidoko 指床 ✓

Lit. "pointing to the alcove." Ceiling battens *saobuchi 竿縁 or thick straw…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
shikidai-no-ma 式台の間

Also written 色代の間. A room or building that projects from (or adjacent and linked by galleries to) the rear of the main…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
shikidai 式台

Also written 色代.

1 A low broad step or platform of timber, which had become a standard feature of the…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
shimochōzu 下手水

A toilet for servants. The toilet used by the elite or by the master in merchants housing was called jōchōzu 上手水.…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
shimodaidokoro 下台所

Lit. "lower kitchen."

1 The outermost part of the kitchen that functioned as a service zone in the…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
shimoyashiki 下屋敷

One of the residences granted to daimyō 大名 by the Edo government, as part of the system where feudal lords…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
shoin 書院 ✓

1 A large reception room developed in the Momoyama period, used by military leaders, daimyō …

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
takudana 卓棚

A set of decorative shelves used in an alcove. A single, high shelf with enclosed sliding doors is constructed slightly…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
tana 棚

Shelves.

1  A type of shelf, sometimes with a rack, of which there are many ordinary household…

Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings
tsukebashira 付柱

Also kobashira 小柱 or shoinbashira 書院柱. A post placed at the exterior corner of the alcove that…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
uchigenkan 内玄関

A subordinate entry in houses possessing a formal guest entry *genkan 玄関, and…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
umaya 馬屋 ✓

A stable. Also written 厩. Also maya 馬屋 or 厩, keiya けいや, and kyūsha 厩舎. Applied to both a…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
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
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
yanagidana 柳棚

Lit. "willow shelf." An asymmetrical arrangement of three decorative shelves tokowakidana 床脇棚 arranged in the…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
yokoza 横座

1 The seat of the principal and most honored guest sonsha 尊者 at formal banquets in the shinden…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
yorikimado 与力窓 ✓

1 A rectangular window used in exterior walls, fitted with thick horizontal timber bars *…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
yūgiridana 夕霧棚

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

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings
zashiki 座敷 ✓

A generic term for a room covered with straw mats *tatami 畳. In the Heian…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings

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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