WikiProject Japan (Talk)

Founded: 18 March 2006 (18 years and 11 days ago) Articles: 91,229 (180 featured)
Shortcuts WP:JA • WP:JP • WP:JPN • WP:WPJ • WP:Japan • WP:JAPAN
Project pages Article guidelines • Assessment • Barnsensu • Collaboration • Recognized content • Popular pages • Requested (Japan, government, anime & manga, seiyū) • Reviews (A-Class, Peer) • Translation • Participants (inactive) • ToDo (cleanup)
Project references Arts and crafts glossary • Film credits glossary • Reference library • Unusual place names • Year conversion
Task forces Ainu • Baseball↔ • Bibliography • Biography • Business & economy • Cars • Cinema↔ • CJKV↔ • Culture • Districts and municipalities (guideline)↔ • Education • Flora and fauna • Food and drink • Gaijin tarento • Geography & environment • History • Infrastructure • Karate↔ • Law & government • Military history↔ • Music • Mythology • Owarai • Photo • Politics • Prefectures • Religion • Royalty and nobility • Science & technology • Shinto • Sport • Tokyo • Transwiki↔ • Update ↔ = joint task force
Project links Category • Deletions • List • Japan • Meta • MOS (Japan, Anime, municipality guideline) • New articles • Notice board • Portals: Japan, Ancient Japan, Anime, Buddhism, Final Fantasy, Japanese cars, Nintendo, Osaka, PlayStation, Sega, Shinto, Tokyo
Child projects Anime and manga (Dragon Ball, Yu-Gi-Oh!) • Entertainment (Hello! Project, Tokusatsu) • Games (Digimon, Final Fantasy, Nintendo, PlayStation, Pokémon, Square Enix, Zelda) • Japan (Sumo, Trains/New)
Related pages Categories (Lists, Wikipedians) • Projects (Automobiles, Computer and video games, F1, Martial Arts, Mixed martial arts, MotoGP, Motorcycling, Motorsport, Sports Car Racing, WRC)
Recognition ((WPJ-Barnsensu)) (recipients) ((WikiProject Japan Barnstar 2.0)) (recipients) ((The Japan Barnstar of National Merit)) (recipients) ((The Most Noble Barnstar of National Honor)) (recipients)
Templates ((WikiProject Japan)) ((Japan current era date)) ((Japanese)) ((nihongo)) ((Nihongo2)) ((Nihongo3)) ((Nihongo foot)) ((Needhiragana)) ((Needkanji))
Userboxes ((User WikiProject Japan)) ((User WP Japan))
Project parentage Asia, Countries, East Asia, Geography
V·T·E·

This page is a glossary of Japanese arts and crafts terms translated into English. These terms are not always found in standard dictionaries, and often take some effort to figure out. This article provides a useful translation guide for those wishing to do help out this project and its descendants in this way.

Terms[edit]

Terms are listed alphabetically according to romanization.

Japanese	Rōmaji	English	Notes	References
春木作り	haruki zukuri	chopping firewood	Firewood is called haruki in Hida, Gifu.	[1]
槫へぎ	kure hegi	lumber slicing, thin board slicing	For example, for roofing boards	[2][3][4][5]
曲げ師	mageshi	magewappa maker		[6]
前挽鋸	maebikinoko	rip saw		[7]
桶屋	okeya	cooper
指物大工	sashimono daiku	joinery carpenter, joiner
柄屋	tsukaya	handle/knob/hilt maker	Maker of wooden handles, including sword hilts
入浜	irihama	naturally flooded salt farm below the high-tide mark; filled during high tide
揚浜	agehama	artificially flooded salt farm above the high-tide mark; needs to be filled by manual labour
楢詰	taruzume	Barrel, pour into barrel	something related to soy sauce production	[8]
澄場	sumashiba	Place to settle on the lees	something related to soy sauce production	[9][10]