| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| jōgo zukuri 漏斗造 | Also called jōgomune 漏斗棟. A roof-style found on vernacular houses *minka… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| jōgyōdō 常行堂 | Also called jōgyō sanmaidō 常行三昧堂. A hall where a devotee walks around a statue of the *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jōi 上居 | Also written 常居. |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| jōjōdan 上々段 | ✓ | A relatively small space elevated one step higher than the *jōdan 上段,… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings |
| jōkamachi 城下町 | Lit. town below the castle. A castle town. A town's fortress was located as a rule in a mountain, while the accompanying… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| Jōmeimon 承明門 | ✓ | Also read Shōmeimon, called *Kōmon 閤門. A large, single-storied gate… |
Architecture, Gates |
| jōōgata tōrō 紹鴎形灯籠 | A lantern with a canopy and a square fire holder higuchi 火口 supported below the middle base by a single natural… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| jorinmoku 如鱗杢 | Also 如鱗木, gyorinmoku 魚鱗木. Lit. curly wood-grain. |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| jōsaku 城柵 | 1 A fence around a castle. See *saku 柵. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| jōsei kidan 上成基壇 | ✓ | The upper level of a two-stepped podium *nijū kidan 二重基壇. The lower level is… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| jōshikō ganna 上仕工鉋 | Special finishing plane. A smoothing plane used in the final stages of wood preparation to get a glossy surface on timber,… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| jōya 上屋 | Lit. upper house. Principal part of farmhouse structure. The central portion of the cross-section of the structural frame in… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| jōyabari 上屋梁 | Principal transverse beam. The beam that receives the diagonal braces at the end of a gable roof. It also supports the ridge… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jōyabashira 上屋柱 | 1 The posts which support the ends of the principal transverse beams *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| jōyageta 上屋桁 | The purlins or plates *keta 桁, supported on the main frame posts *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| jōzadoko 上座床 | Lit. upper seat alcove. Also read kamizadoko. An alcove *tokonoma… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| jū 重 | A story or level of a building, used especially in reference to a pagoda. For example, a *… |
Architecture, Measurement | |
| jūben rengemon 重弁蓮華文 | ✓ | A roof tile style with a lotus pattern with double layered petals. The additional petals are placed between the leaf sprout… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| jūben 重弁 | A layered petal motif with one or more petals superimposed one on top of another. It is found on some pendants *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| jūbō 住房 | The earliest (6th-12th century) Buddhist living quarters for priests' and monks. Arranged outside the sacred area containing… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jūhozo 重ほぞ | ✓ | Also called kasanehozo 重ねほぞ; also ryōhozo 両ほぞ. Lit. a stacked tenon. A tenon with a 2-stepped broad… |
Architecture, Joints |
| Jūjūtō 十重塔 | A unique, ten-story stone pagoda *sekitō 石塔 at Injōji 引接寺(1386) in Kyoto.… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jūkenmon 重圏文 | A pattern composed of concentric circles on a pendant *gatō 瓦当 and parallel… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| jukōgata tōrō 珠光形灯籠 | Also read shukōgata tōrō. Also written shikōgata 四光形. A type of lantern with a gently rounded canopy… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| jūkomon nokihiragawara 重弧文軒平瓦 | ✓ | A pattern of parallel lines decorating the pendant *gatō 瓦当 of a broad,… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| jun'yokoya 順横矢 | Lit. regular side arrow. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| jūsanjū-no-tō 十三重の塔 | ✓ | A thirteen-storied pagoda. The only wooden thirteen-storied pagoda extant is located at Danzan Jinja 談山神社 (1532) in Nara.… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| jūsōmon 重層門 | Lit. a gate of more than one story. Jūsōmon is a gate with a large roof over the entire structure. A balcony,… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| jūyōsoben rengemon 十葉素弁蓮華文 | The decorative pattern of a ten-petalled flower which is used on roof tiles, particularly on round eaves tiles *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kabe shitaji 壁下地 | The framework for a mud-plastered wall. It consists of lath, bamboo crosspieces *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kabedoko 壁床 | ✓ | A wall alcove. An alcove that has no recessed space and no appurtenances such as a framing board *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| kabegaki 壁垣 | A generic term for shrine fences *tamagaki 玉垣. A fence built at shrines from… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kabekomai 壁小舞 | ✓ | Also written 壁木舞. Thinly split lath set vertically and horizontally to form the framework *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kabemochi bashira 壁持柱 | Small diameter posts set between two pillars to support horizontal circular laths called kabemawatashi 壁間渡. The… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kaben 花弁 | The band of lotus petals *renji 蓮子 which encircles the seed pod *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| kabeshiro 壁代 | A type of curtain hung from the upper non-penetrating tie beam, uwanageshi (or kaminageshi ) 上長押 in temple… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kabewatadono 壁渡殿 | Lit. walled bridge corridor. An archaic term for a type of corridor that connects two buildings in a Heian period… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kabuki 冠木 | Also 衡木. A horizontal timber, lintel, or crossbar. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kabukimon 冠木門 | ✓ | Also written kōmon 衡門. A roofless gate composed of two square gate posts *… |
Architecture, Gates |
| kabumono 株もの | Lit. stump. The term is used to designate trees which have no trunk but grow so that the branches come directly out of the… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kaburagegyo 蕪懸魚 | ✓ | Lit. turnip bargeboard pendant. A gable pendant *gegyo 懸魚 decorated with… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| kabutomon 兜門 | Lit. helmet gate. A type of front gate in tea gardens *roji 露地 that resembles a… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kadozuka 角束 | A short strut used at the corners of podii *kidan 基壇, or a dais *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kaeribana 反花 | 1 Lotus petal design carved around the lower base kiban 基盤 of a lantern *… |
Architecture, Art History, Sculpture, Lanterns | |
| kaeribanaza 反花座 | Abbreviated to *kaeribana 反花. Also soribana 反り花. A… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kaerumata 蟇股 | ✓ | Frog-leg strut. A strut with legs spread like those of a frog. Kaerumata in the early Nara period developed from an… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kagami-ishi 鏡石 | Lit. mirror stone. |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kagami ita 鏡板 | Boards or panels planed to a perfectly smooth surface and employed for ceilings or flooring. An example is a thin board… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kagami no ma 鏡の間 | Lit. mirror room. A room separated by a curtain from the passageway hashigakari 橋掛り leading to a noh stage *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kagami tenjō 鏡天井 | ✓ | Also kagamiita tenjō 鏡板天井. Lit. mirror ceiling. A flat ceiling made of smoothly planed boards shiraki… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kagamizumi 鏡積み | Lit. mirror piling. A method of masonry used for a stone wall *ishigaki 石垣.… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kagariya 篝屋 | Guardhouses for soldiers placed at street corners in Kyoto and Kamakura during the Kamakura period. The earliest known … |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kagebana sōshoku 懸華装飾 | A festoon. Also fesutun フェストゥーン, hanazuna sōshoku 花網装飾, or sagewa kazari 下げ環飾. A carved or molded… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kagemori 影盛 | ✓ | A plastered roof ornament on storehouses *dozō 土蔵. Located at the ends of… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kagiya 鍵屋 | Lit. key-shaped house. A widely used term for vernacular houses *minka 民家, of… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kagobori 篭彫 | ✓ | Purfled work. Lit. basket carving. A type of decorative wood carving used on beam projections *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kai 階 | Floor or storey, and also a counter for floors in a building. For example, nikai 二階 refers to the second floor or… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kai no kuchitsugi 貝の口継 | ✓ | Lit. shell mouth joint. A straight end-to-end joint *tsugite 継手 used for very… |
Architecture, Joints |
| kaidaka 階高 | The distance from the floor of one story to the floor of the next story. The topmost story is measurement from the floor to… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kaidan'in 戒壇院 | ✓ | A Tendai 天台 sect building that contains an ordination platform used exclusively for the ceremony to impart the Buddhist… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| kaidan 階段 | One or more steps composed of a tread dan ita 段板 or fumi ita 踏板 and a riser *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kaidan 戒壇 | A platform or dais used for the Buddhist ordination ceremony. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kaigata 貝形 | ✓ | 1 A trapezoid. |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kaigata gegyo 貝形懸魚 | ✓ | Also kaigashira gegyo 貝頭懸魚. Lit. shell-head gable pendant. A type of decorative gable pendant *… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| Kaiki 槐記 | The words and deeds of court-noble Konoe Iehiro 近衛家熈 (1667-1736) as collected by his personal physician Yamashina Dōan 山科道安… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kaikō 開口 | Also kaikō ana 開口穴; kaikōbu 開口部. A generic term for an opening made in a wall for a door and window, in… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kaimono 飼物 | Any kind of material used to fill a gap. If the basic material is wood, then wood filler is used. Gaps in stone walls are… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kaiorekugi 貝折釘 | ✓ | Also written 皆折釘. A large, square, angular nail used for wooden or bamboo fences. Its head is bent at right angles but has a… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kairō 回廊 | ✓ | Also written 廻廊; also called bu 廡, sōrō 走廊 or *horō 歩廊. Single-… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| kaisandō 開山堂 | ✓ | A hall that enshrines a statue, portrait or memorial tablet of the founder of a temple or the founder of a particular… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| kaisantō 開山塔 | Lit. founder's pagoda. A rare type of wooden pagoda *hōtō 宝塔, constructed… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kaisho 会所 | 1 A meeting place. Originally specified as a place in a shinden style mansion *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kaitomoshi 掻灯 | Also *tsuridōrō 釣灯籠. Lanterns, usually made of metal, hung in the… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| kaiyūshiki teien 回遊式庭園 | Lit. stroll style garden. A type of garden designed to be entered and enjoyed on foot. Most gardens can be divided either… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kajū 荷重 | Also ni 荷. Lit. load. The downward pressure exerted by the roof structure, purlins, transverse beams, etc. on the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kake domoegawara 掛巴瓦 | Often abbreviated kake domoe 掛巴. The semi-cylindrical eave-end cover tiles, noki kakedomoe marugawara… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| kake karakusagawara 掛唐草瓦 | A common term for the broad, concave eave-end pendant tiles that are placed along the gable overhang *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| kakebana 懸鼻 | ✓ | Also read kakehana, and written 掛鼻. A decorative nosing *kibana 木鼻… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kakedo 掛戸 | Lit. hanging door. A door hung on the outside of a window to prevent the penetration of rain and wind. It is really a… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kakegane 掛金 | ✓ | A ring or eyelet device used as a simple method of securing a hinged door *hirakido… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| kakegawara 掛瓦 | A general term for tiles used to cover the bargeboard *hafu 破風 on a gable roof *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| kakego zukuri 掛子造 | ✓ | A method of measurement used to determine the size of a small, 1-bay wide shrine building *… |
Architecture, Measurement |
| kakehashi 掛橋 | Also written 架橋 and 懸橋. A wooden bridge that spans a water-filled moat. Supported by posts, the bridge can be removed when a… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kakekomi tenjō 掛込天井 | Also written 駆込天井, also called *keshō yaneura no kakekomi tenjō… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kakeshōji 掛障子 | ✓ | A hanging translucent screen *shōji 障子 that is constructed with a light wooden… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| kaki 垣 | Also read en; also called kakine 垣根. A generic term for a fence, garden precinct wall, or partition. Some… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kakikomi 欠込 | ✓ | Also pronounced kakikomu; watarikakitsugi 渡欠継. Also written kakikomu 缺込む in old sources. One of… |
Architecture, Joints |
| kakikubi 欠首 | A neck-like part under a bulbous-topped post *giboshi 擬宝珠. It resembles the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kakimayu 欠眉 | Also written 缺眉 or 欠き眉. A type of carved molding *kurigata 繰形, widely used in… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kakitome no ki 垣留の木 | Lit. fence-stopping tree. The technique of painting a tree at the end of a fence. The tree should be in harmony with the… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kakitsugi 欠継 | A scarf joint used to join two timber members together to form one continuous piece. |
Architecture, Joints | |
| kakitsuke 掻きつけ | Also written 垣つけ. A method of fence construction where vertical members *tateko… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kakiuchi 欠打 | ✓ | A nailed right angled joint made on two crossed structural members by cutting a notch into one timber equal to the width of… |
Architecture, Joints |
| kakoi 囲 | Lit. enclosure. An old name for a tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室.… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kaku 閣 | ✓ | 1 A tower or a palace. For example, tenshukaku 天守閣 is the keep or dungeon of a castle. See *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kaku 角 | Also seikakuzai 正角材. A term used for any square building material. For example post is called kakubashira 角柱. | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kaku-umadashi 角馬出 | A type of defensive gateway barrier *umadashi 馬出, consisting of an earthen… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kaku zukuri 角造 | 1 A generic term for structural members that are square in cross section. Examples are found on the steps… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kakugōshi tamagaki 角格子玉垣 | Also called kakutamagaki 角玉垣 or *tatehigo tamagaki 竪籤玉垣. A… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kakurenji 角連子 | Lit. square lattice. Lattice that is square in cross section. A single section of lattice is called renjiko 連子子.… |
Architecture, General Terms |
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