fittings that open and close; fixtures
Refers to built-in movable elements such as doors, windows, sliding screens (shoji, fusuma), and similar interior fittings. Often used in architectural, construction, and home-improvement contexts.
We ordered all the fittings for the newly built house from a craftsman.
Adjusting the fittings will make the shoji slide more smoothly.
joiner; carpenter (interior fittings); cabinetmaker
woodworker; joiner
Compound of 建 (たて, 'build') and 具 (ぐ, 'tool, implement'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word has been used since at least the Edo period to refer to built-in movable fittings.