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A traditional Japanese torii gate. Slightly below the top rail is a second horizontal rail, called nuki, which is an example of a nuki joint. Nuki is a Japanese style of carpentry joint connection. Nuki joints are common in Japanese and oriental carpentry, and comprise one of the simplest structural connectors. [1]
Kintsugi (Japanese: 金継ぎ, lit. 'golden joinery'), also known as kintsukuroi (金繕い, "golden repair"), [1] is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with urushi lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. The method is similar to the maki-e technique.
Wagoya type traditional roof framing, a post-and-lintel type of framing. Yogoya type traditional roof framing, called western style. Japanese carpentry was developed more than a millennium ago that is known for its ability to create everything from temples to houses to tea houses to furniture by wood with the use of few nails.
This category is for jargon relating to Japanese art (visual arts), especially terms in the original Japanese, which may be used in print in any English-language literature on Japanese art. Many terms are idiosyncratic and may not be accurately represented by a succinct English equivalent notation (rough translation).
カラオケ listen ⓘ, (English IPA : [kæriːoʊkiː]) "empty orchestra"; entertainment where an amateur singer accompanies recorded music. kintsugi 金継ぎ, the artisanry of repairing broken pottery using urushi lacquer and dusted with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, to emphasise the damage. lit. "golden joinery".
Shoji may also be installed as pocket doors between rooms, called hikikomi (引込) shoji. [83] This is a historical practice, but it is no longer common in Japan, though it is sometimes used in western-style homes. [8] Shoji in Europe are commonly suspended on panel-blind track, by 'touch-and-close' fastener such as Velcro.
For example, the joinery used to construct a house can be different from that used to make cabinetry or furniture, although some concepts overlap. In British English joinery is distinguished from carpentry, which is considered to be a form of structural timber work; [1] in other locales joinery is considered a form of carpentry.
A Phoenician joint (Latin: coagmenta punicana) is a locked mortise and tenon wood joinery technique used in shipbuilding to fasten watercraft hulls.The locked (or pegged) mortise and tenon technique consists of cutting a mortise, or socket, into the edges of two planks and fastening them together with a rectangular wooden knob.