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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
udatsuya うだつ屋

1 A rudimentary thatched dwelling hut or ancillary structure with a gable roof *…

Architecture, 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
ushibari 牛梁

1 A particularly large beam that runs in a longitudinal direction, ketayuki hōkō 桁行方向 (see *…

Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings
ushiroya chūmon 後屋中門

A rear wing which extends from the main structure of a folk dwelling *minka…

Architecture, Gates, Folk Dwellings
usuniwa 臼庭 ✓

1 An alternative term for all or part of the earth-floored area, *doma…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
usuya 臼屋

1 A small-scale freestanding structure containing a mortar or hand mill, usu 臼, for pounding rice…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
wakihonjin 脇本陣

A secondary *honjin 本陣, authorized by the Tokugawa 徳川 government for the…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
yakuba 役場

1 The parts of a stone wall such as exterior corners, top surfaces, or openings for drainage where…

Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings
yamatomune 大和棟

An alternative term for a roof style found on Edo period farmhouses nōka 農家, called *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
yanakadake 屋中竹

Also yamadake 屋間竹. The bamboo purlins, about 20-30 cm in circumference, that are placed about 30-36 cm apart over a…

Architecture, Folk 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
yoritsuki 寄付

Also written 寄附.

1 Room immediately inside an entrance to the raised floor zone; *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses
yotsudate 四つ建て

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

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
yūjoya 遊女屋

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

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
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
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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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