The Japanese-French architectural dictionary Vocabulaire de la spatialité japonaise [The Vocabulary of Japanese Living Space]（CNRS Editions）, in which our Research Fellow, Atsuko Ukai was responsible for the entries for “Japanese paper” and “play,” received a prize from the l’Academie d’architecture in France (Prix du Livre de l’Académie d’Architecture 2014).
This dictionary is an ambitious work with about 200 keywords for understanding Japan from an architectural and cultural point of view, including special terms used in Japanese architectural space such as karesansui [rock garden] and tsuboniwa [inner (small) garden] as well as terms such as madori [house plan/layout] and buruu sheeto [blue sheet (tarp)] with deep connections to everyday Japanese life.