| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| sumitsubo 墨壷 | Carpenter's ink pot, or ink pad. The sumitsubo, unlike other carpentry tools, does not have a fixed shape or size.… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| sumiumadashi 隅馬出 | A castle entrance barrier *umadashi 馬出, erected at the corner of an… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| sumiyagura 隅櫓 | ✓ | A corner tower. Also written 角櫓. A timber-framed tower set on the corner of a castle wall where two stone walls jut out. In… |
Architecture, Castles |
| sumiyoshi torii 住吉鳥居 | A stone gate-like entrance, torii of the myōjin type *myōjin… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| sumiyoshi-zukuri 住吉造 | A style of main sanctuary *honden 本殿 in Shinto shrine… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| sumiyuki hijiki 隅行肘木 | Also called *sumihijiki 隅肘木, tsunohijiki 角肘木 and ushihijiki… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| sumiyukibari 隅行梁 | A beam that runs parallel to a hip rafter, also called a common rafter *sumigi 隅木, or any… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| sunasetchin 砂雪隠 | Lit. "sand toilet." Originally a functioning toilet for use during tea gatherings, it later became a purely ornamental… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| sunazuri 砂摺 | A plaster coating on a storehouse wall about 4.5 mm thick. Traditionally the mixture by volume was 10 parts of sand, 15… |
Architecture, Storehouses | |
| sundori 寸取 | Also suntori; also called issundori 一寸取, sun-osae 寸押 and sunkazoe 寸数. A method of… |
Architecture, Measurement | |
| sunoko 簀子 | ✓ | A slatted floor or duckboard floor made of boards or bamboo laid parallel with space between; each board is called … |
Architecture, General Terms |
| sunokogumi 簀組 | Bracket complexes constructed beneath a veranda to give it support. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| sunuki 簀貫 | A penetrating beam used as the backing and bracing for the various layers of plaster in the thick walls of a storehouse *… |
Architecture, Storehouses | |
| suriage shōji 摺上障子 | ✓ | Also written 摺揚障子. Also called *agesage shōji 上下障子. |
Architecture, General Terms |
| susa すさ | Written susa 寸莎. Also tsuta つた. A generic term for fibrous substances, including straw, hemp, or paper… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| sushiki 素式 | 1 A wall with an entirely flat white surface. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| sute-ishi 捨石 | Lit. "discarded stone." One of the seven trump stones *nanatsu-ishi… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| sutebori 捨堀 | Moats dug in open areas some distance from a castle, to hinder the advance of enemy forces. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| suteguruwa 捨郭 | A sacrificial compound constructed in front of a main compound. A camp used to launch an attacking force. When a force moves… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| sutemayu 捨眉 | A type of molding *kurigata 繰形 incised on the lower edge of a… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| suteto 捨斗 | ✓ | Also sutedo. A bracket *tokyō 斗きょう that has the same… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| Suzakumon 朱雀門 | The front gate at the center of the south end of the outer enclosure that surrounded the palace compound at Heijō-kyō 平城京… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| suzumeguchi 雀口 | ✓ | Lit. "sparrow entrance, exit." A gap under the eave end tiles *nokisakigawara… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| suzumeodori 雀踊 | ✓ | Lit. "sparrow dance." A widely-used term for a range of elements used to decorate the ridge of the roof in vernacular houses… |
Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings |
| tabigeta 旅桁 | 1 One of the purlins used in a hidden roof *noyane … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tachiagari 立上 | A vertical timber that rises from a level or inclined surface. In modular measurement of timber *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tachichōzubachi 立手水鉢 | ✓ | Lit. "standing water basin." A type of tall basin *chōzubachi 手水鉢 that can… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| tachisama 立狭間 | A loophole *sama 狭間 cut in a wall about chest high to a standing soldier.… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| tahōtō 多宝塔 | ✓ | A 2-storied pagoda that developed from the circular, roofed one called *hōtō 宝塔… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| tai-no-shiro 対の城 | Lit. "confronting castle." Also termed mukaijiro 向城 (facing castle) and *tsukejiro… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| taibō 大房 | Also pronounced daibō. A large room 6.7 m wide and 12.7 m deep, constructed in a style customary from about the mid… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| taiheibire 大瓶鰭 | Also oigata 笈形, *gasshōhire 合掌鰭. A pair of decorative sculpted… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| taiheizuka 大瓶束 | ✓ | Lit. "large bottle strut." A strut that is used mainly in Zen style architecture *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| taiko-otoshi 太鼓落 | ✓ | The trimming or hewing of the opposite sides of a log so that the surfaces become flat and parallel making it easier to join… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| taikobari fusuma 太鼓張襖 | ✓ | Also called taikobari 太鼓張, fukuroshōji 袋障子, bōzufusuma 坊主襖. |
Architecture, General Terms |
| taikobashi 太鼓橋 | ✓ | Also called soribashi 反橋. An arched bridge made of stone or wood. One example is the Yoka Jinja 与賀神社 (1607) in Saga… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| taikodo 太鼓戸 | ✓ | A door frame covered on both sides with boards or panels. The inside of the door, like a drum taiko 太鼓, is empty.… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| taisha-zukuri 大社造 | ✓ | Also called ōyashiro-zukuri. The oldest style of shrine architecture. Its small scale is thought to resemble that… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| taishaku 大尺 | Lit. "large shaku 尺." An ancient unit of length. Introduced in the Taihōryō 大宝令 codes of 701, it measured 35.6 cm,… |
Architecture, Measurement | |
| taishidō 太子堂 | A hall either dedicated to Shōtoku Taishi 聖徳太子 (ca. 574-622), the second son of Emperor Yōmei 用明 (r. 585-87), or a building… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| taka-no-hashi 鷹の嘴 | Lit. "hawk's beak." A decorative, curved pattern often found on moldings. The pattern has pointed tips like a bird's beak.… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| takahei 高塀 | Also pronounced takahe. The gable walls of the central thatched portion kirizuma 切妻 of the roof *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| takahei-zukuri 高塀造り | Also pronounced takahe-zukuri. Lit. "high wall construction." Also called *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| takaikegaki 高生垣 | A hedge, 3 to 5 m high, planted as a wind screen or for fire control. |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| takaku-bashira 多角柱 | A pillar or post that is multi-sided or cut with many facets. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| take-bashira 竹柱 | Lit. "bamboo post." One that has been squared off. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| take-no-fushi ranma 竹の節欄間 | ✓ | Also take-no-fushi 竹の節. Lit. "bamboo joint transom." A type of transom shaped like a balustrade which became… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| take tokusabei 竹木賊塀 | ✓ | Lit. "bamboo and horsetail tokusa 木賊 fence." |
Architecture, Gardens |
| takegaki 竹垣 | ✓ | Lit. "bamboo fence." A generic name for any kind of fence made with bamboo. Specific types include *… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| takekugi 竹釘 | A bamboo nail. Usually the nail is 7.5 mm square and made from giant bamboo madake 真竹 (also nigatake 苦竹).… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| takerenji 竹連子 | ✓ | Bamboo or bamboo muntins that are used for windows in dwellings where a suggestion of rusticity is needed, or in tea… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| takeshōji 竹障子 | Paper-covered bamboo frames used as full-sized sliding doors *shōji 障子, or the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| takeyarai 竹矢来 | ✓ | Also written 竹柵. A roughly constructed bamboo fence with horizontal pieces placed close to the top, at the center, and at… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| takiguchi 焚口 | The stokehole or stokeholes in the side of a cooking range *kamado 竃. The… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| takigumi-ishi 滝組石 | Lit. "waterfall stone arrangement." A type of stone arrangement used for garden waterfalls. Also pronounced taki-… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| tako 蛸 | ✓ | A tool called a "punner" in English, used to pound down broken stones laid below the foundation of a building. It consists… |
Architecture, Tools |
| 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 | |
| tama-ishi 玉石 | Lit. "round stone." A boulder about 15-30 cm across, which has been naturally rounded by a river or ocean waves. Often… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| tama-ishijiki 玉石敷 | ✓ | A type of paving using naturally rounded stones *tama-ishi 玉石, about 15-30 cm in diameter.… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| tamabuchi 玉縁 | Lit. "jewelled edge." |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Gardens | |
| tamagaki 玉垣 | ✓ | The generic term for a fence surrounding the square or rectangular space containing the main sanctuary *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| Tamamushi no zushi 玉虫厨子 | The Tamamushi no zushi owned by Hōryūji 法隆寺 (mid-7th century) is also called the Beetle-wing Shrine, because of the… |
Architecture, Accessories | |
| tamen tahi 多面多臂 | Also *tamen kōhi 多面広臂. A Buddhist image with more heads, eyes, or limbs than… |
Architecture, Sculpture | |
| tamon 多聞 | Also termed tamon-zukuri 多聞造, tamon'yagura 多聞櫓 (many listen tower) and tamon nagaya 多聞長屋 (many… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| tan'itsubari 単一梁 | A solid, single beam made from one timber. The term is used to differentiate it from a composite beam called gōseibari… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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 | |
| tanamono 棚物 | A simplified portable shelf *daisu 台子 set on the host's mat *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| tanba-ishi 丹波石 | Lit. "Tanba stone." A type of granite from the Kameoka 亀岡 region, northwest of Kyoto. High in iron, it is used for pavements… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| tanben 単弁 | A decorative motif used on the roof of a Japanese building. It consisted of a series of single petals with one leaf seedling… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| tanben rengemon 単弁蓮華文 | ✓ | A stylized lotus flower motif with eight petals. Although it is a relatively simple arrangement, unlike the *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| tani 谷 | The valley or trough that forms when two sloping roofs meet. |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| tanigawara 谷瓦 | 1 A generic term for roof tiles used in the valley of a roof. Valleys are formed when the ridges of two… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| tanimendo 谷面戸 | Also called *mendo 面戸. The gap along both sides of the valley *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| tanjakumono 短尺物 | A timber shorter than the standard length. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tanrō 単廊 | A single corridor that is 182 cm wide, commonly found in temples. Some shrines have double corridors *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| tansō 単倉 | A single-structure storehouse constructed of triangular timber or planks set in grid plan, *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| taru-no-kuchi 樽の口 | 1 An abbreviation of taru-no-kuchi kanamono 樽の口金物. Part of the metal cover *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| taruki 垂木 | Also written たるき. This is the simplest type of rafter, called common rafter or base rafter. It extends from the ridge *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| taruki kōzō 垂木構造 | Lit. "rafter construction." Also referred to as odachi toriigumi おだち鳥居組. One of the two principal types of assembly… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tarukibori 垂木彫 | An angled joint *shiguchi 仕口 used to insert rafters into a ridge *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tarukidake 垂木竹 | Bamboo rafters that span from the ridge *munagi 棟木 to the eave ends *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tarukigata 垂木形 | A board placed parallel to the rafters on a gable roof *kirizuma yane … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tarukikake 垂木掛 | Also read tarukigake. A horizontal timber attached to the posts of an exterior wall to support the undersides of… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tarukisaki gawara 垂木先瓦 | A rafter pendant tile. A small tile formed to fit the shape of the cut end of a rafter *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| tarukisaki kanamono 垂木先金物 | A decorative metal fitting *kazari kanagu 飾金具 fixed to the end of a… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| tarukiwari 垂木割 | ✓ | The various systems of placing rafters *taruki 垂木 in relation to the pillars *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tarumi 弛み | ✓ | The degree of curvature on a bargeboard *hafu 破風, or on a roof between the peak… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tasōtō 多層塔 | ✓ | Also called tajūtō 多重塔. A generic term for pagodas that are from three to thirteen stories. An even number of… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| tassho 塔所 | Also read tōsho. The burial place for the remains of prominent Buddhist priests. Historically, the ashes of Buddha… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tasukebari 助梁 | Also called sukebari. A beam which stabilizes bottle struts *taiheizuka… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tasuki 襷 | ✓ | 1 Two interact lines, strings or rails diagonally forming a pattern of diamond shapes. Sometimes another… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| tasukigōshi 襷格子 | Also *hishigōshi 菱格子. A type of lattice *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| tasukisan 襷桟 | Also tasukizan. Thin stips of timber san 桟 that intersect to form a criss-cross pattern or a zig-zag… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tasukizumi 襷墨 | ✓ | A diagonal line. A word applied to structural members used in the modular system kikujutsu 規矩術. Specifically, this… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| tatakidoi 敲土居 | A pounded earth embankment. It was made of layers of earth mixed with water, pounded down and allowed to harden. The wall… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| tatakinomi 叩鑿 | A striking chisel. The primary structural elements in Japanese wooden buildings are pillars and beams, and not supporting… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| tatami 畳 | A floor covering made of tightly woven grass and straw. A standard tatami is a rectangular mat about 1.82 m (≒6')… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tatami-no-me 畳の目 | The mesh or the number of meshes "wales" of a straw mat *tatami 畳. One "wale" is approximately… |
Architecture, Accessories | |
| tatamidoko 畳床 | A type of straw matted alcove in which either an ordinary *tatami mat is set on… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| tatamiyose 畳寄 | Also called *yosejikii 寄敷居. A small, horizontal wooden strip that is placed… |
Architecture, General Terms |
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