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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
azekura 校倉 ✓

A storage facility constructed of logs *azegi 校木, cut in appropriate lengths to…

Architecture, Storehouses
dozō 土蔵

A form of storehouse which provided a fireproof place to keep valuables which were otherwise always at risk in highly…

Architecture, Storehouses
dozō-zukuri 土蔵造

Also referred to as *kura-zukuri 蔵造. A fireproof building construction…

Architecture, Storehouses
kura-zukuri 蔵造

An alternative term for *dozō-zukuri 土蔵造, the fireproof…

Architecture, Storehouses
kurazashiki 蔵座敷

Also *zashikigura 座敷蔵. A fireproof structure *…

Architecture, Storehouses
misegura 店蔵 ✓

A shop constructed using the fireproof system of construction known as *dozō-zukuri…

Architecture, Storehouses
ōsakado 大阪戸

A plastered sliding door on a storehouse, kura 蔵. During the early 17th century they became heavy and thick,…

Architecture, Storehouses
ōtsushibari 大津縛

An abbreviation of ki-ōtsushibari 黄大津縛. A yellow clay applied about 4-5 cm thick in order to hide and protect the…

Architecture, Storehouses
sodegura 袖蔵 ✓

A *dozō 土蔵 type of storehouse flanking the main shop *…

Architecture, Storehouses
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
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
tate-nawaire 竪縄入

The layer of plaster that gradually covered ropes suspended randomly down a store house wall *…

Architecture, Storehouses
tenbinbari 天秤梁 ✓

Beams used to support a heavy lower ridge *jimune 地棟. They are…

Architecture, Storehouses
tsuchido 土戸

1 In the Heian and Kamakura periods, a gate in a pise mud wall *tsuiji…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Storehouses
urajirodo 裏白戸

Also called urajiro 裏白. Type of door used for storage buildings *dozō…

Architecture, Storehouses
yosekake 寄掛

A board fence erected to protect the exterior plastered walls of a storehouse *dozō…

Architecture, Storehouses
zashikigura 座敷蔵

A two-story fireproof structure of the storehouse type *dozō 土蔵 that…

Architecture, Storehouses

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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