| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| 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. |
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.
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Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| kanmuridana 冠棚 | ✓ | Also called kanmuridai 冠台 or kanmurishoku 冠卓.
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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. |
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." |
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. |
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." |
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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