| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| yokoya hizumi 横矢邪 | Also written 横矢斜 and 横矢歪. Lit. "distorted rampart." A diagonal projection from a castle rampart. Used by defending troops to… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yokoya masugata 横矢桝形 | Also termed demasugata 出桝形. A defensive box-shaped courtyard *masugata… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yokoya sumi-otoshi 横矢角落 | ✓ | Also written 横矢隅落. A diagonally cut-away corner of a castle tower, used to launch side attacks *… |
Architecture, Castles |
| 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 | |
| yokozan 横桟 | ✓ | Also called nakazan 中桟. A generic term for the parallel crosspieces used to frame doors, windows, and other… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yokozando 横桟戸 | ✓ | A timber door frame into which horizontal boards are set. The seams tsugime 継目 are hidden by crosspieces nailed in… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yokurō 翼廊 | ✓ | Lit. "wing corridors." A corridor that extends outward from the side or rear of a building. Examples: Byōdōin *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| Yōmeimon 陽明門 | ✓ | Lit. "sun bright gate." |
Architecture, Gates |
| yomezuka 嫁束 | Also called *kirizuka 切束, komitatara 込たたら. A short strut… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yonmaihozo 四枚ほぞ | ✓ | The four tenons cut into the crosscut of a beam. Quadruple tenons. The same principle is used in making double tenons *… | Architecture, Joints |
| yōraku 瓔珞 | 1 A string of beads or lacework used to decorate Buddhist statues and objects. Often found on Bodhisattva… |
Art History, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorations | |
| yorikimado 与力窓 | ✓ | 1 A rectangular window used in exterior walls, fitted with thick horizontal timber bars *… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings |
| yoritsuki 寄付 | Also written 寄附. |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses | |
| yoroido 鎧戸 | Also called gararido がらり戸. The horizontal, louver boards yoroi-ita 鎧板 of a door that run parallel to each… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yose-ari hikidokko 寄蟻引独鈷 | A right angle joint used to attach a horizontal member to a pillar. It combines a type of dovetail joint *… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| yose-ari 寄蟻 | Also called okuri-ari 送蟻. A right angle joint *shiguchi 仕口 used to… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| yose-ishijiki 寄石敷 | Stone paving in which various sizes of cut and natural stones are arranged in unique patterns. Different sizes of regular… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| yosegi 寄木 | 1 The upper horizontal timber yosegi 寄木, in a transom, called *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yosejikii 寄敷居 | ✓ | Also called *tatamiyose 畳寄, or abbreviated to yose 寄. A horizontal timber level with… | Architecture, General Terms |
| yosekake 寄掛 | A board fence erected to protect the exterior plastered walls of a storehouse *dozō… |
Architecture, Storehouses | |
| yosekakebashira 寄掛柱 | A post set against a castle's sloping stone wall, at the same angle of incline, under the watch tower gate *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yosemune yane 寄棟屋根 | ✓ | Also abbreviated to yosemune 寄棟, also called yotsuyane 四つ屋根. A hipped roof. A roof that descends from the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yosemune-zukuri 寄棟造 | Also called *shia 四阿 in the Nara period. Also komune-zukuri 小棟造, … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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." |
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 | ✓ | 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." |
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 | |
| zaimoku 材木 | Timber prepared for construction. | Architecture, General Terms | |
| zakanshiki teien 座観式庭園 | Lit. "seated appreciation style garden." A modern term designating gardens meant to be seen or "appreciated" from a fixed… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| zashiki kazari 座敷飾 | The *zashiki 座敷 is a guest room; its name deriving from that of the mat… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| zashiki 座敷 | ✓ | A generic term for a room covered with straw mats *tatami 畳. In the Heian… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings |
| zashikigura 座敷蔵 | A two-story fireproof structure of the storehouse type *dozō 土蔵 that… |
Architecture, Storehouses | |
| zazen-ishi 座禅石 | Lit. "stone for seated meditation." A large, flat-topped stone which is used for, or thought to be appropriate for… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| Zen'inshiki no niwa 禅院式の庭 | Lit. "Zen 禅 temple style gardens." A modern term designating the various types of gardens associated with Zen sect temples… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| Zendō 禅堂 | ✓ | Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Zendōjigata tōrō 善導寺形灯籠 | Type of lantern found in the garden of Zendōji 善導寺, Kyoto. Six semi-spherical swellings surround the base and have been… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| zenigata mizubachi 銭形水鉢 | Lit. "coin shape water basin." A type of round water basins *chōzubachi 手水鉢… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| zenkishiki karesansui 前期式枯山水 | Lit. "early style dry landscape." The Heian period arrangement of stones in areas with neither a pond nor stream. The 11th-… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| zenmon 前門 | An especially impressive front gate or entry. Examples are *hirakaramon… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| zenpai 前拝 | Old name kizahashi 階 means steps (see *hashi 階). The front steps… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Zenshitsu 禅室 | Sometimes an alternative *Zendō 禅堂. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| zenshūyō 禅宗様 | A style of architecture imported from China during the Song dynasty. It includes the architectural elements that came with… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Zenshūyō kōran 禅宗様高欄 | ✓ | Also called Karayō kōran 唐様高欄. A railing or balustrade *kōran 高欄 with… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| Zenshūyō tokyō 禅宗様斗きょう | ✓ | Also called Karayō tokyō 唐様斗きょう. A Zen style bracket complex. The bracket arms *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| zentei 前庭 | Lit. "front garden." A general term referring to the garden in front of a building. In contrast to the main garden which is… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| zetsu 舌 | ✓ | Lit. "tongue." A thin ornamental molding *kurigata 繰形, carved on the bottom… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| zōbana 象鼻 | ✓ | Also read zōhana. A beam projection or nosing *kibana 木鼻, molded or… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| zōkinzuri 雑巾摺 | ✓ | Also called hōkizuri 掃摺 or zōkindome 雑巾留. A long thin finishing board, similar to a base board, that is… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| zōsaku 雑作 | Also witten 造作. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| zuan 図案 | A rough sketch of a building plan including, floor plans, elevations, the placement of doors and windows, etc. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| zuijinmon 随神門 | Middle gates *chūmon 中門 with statues of Zuijin 随神, shrine guards… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| -zukuri 造 | A suffix meaning style or type frequently used in Japanese architectural history. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| zushi 厨子 | 1 A miniature shrine in which Buddhist images or rolls of sutras kyō 経 are kept. Reliquary… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| zushi 辻子 | 1 Also written 図子, 途子. A crossroads or intersection of two roads. See *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
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