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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
butsudan-no-ma 仏壇の間 ✓

A room in traditional vernacular houses *minka 民家, in parts of Hyōgo Prefecture…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
butsuden 仏殿 ✓

Also *daiyū hōden 大雄宝殿. The main hall of a Zen temple. Butsuden…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
butsuden-zu 仏伝図

Lit. illustrated biographies of the Buddha. Artistic representations, usually painted or in low-relief sculpture, of the…

Art History, Iconography
butsudō 仏堂

Also called *butsuden 仏殿; bukkaku 仏閣, *…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
butsugan 仏龕

Also gan 龕. A niche carved out of a wall for the purpose of installing a Buddhist image, or a miniature Buddhist…

Art History, Sculpture
Butsugen butsumo 仏眼仏母

Also Butsugenson 仏眼尊 (Venerable Buddha-Eye). Lit. Buddha-Eye, or Mother of the Buddha. Sk: Buddhalocanal Locana. An Esoteric…

Art History, Iconography
Butsugen mandara 仏眼曼荼羅

A variety of *besson mandara 別尊曼荼羅 (a mandala concerning a single deity…

Art History, Iconography
butsuma 仏間

A room for Buddhist images (either two- or three-dimensional images) or, especially in a residence, an altar or tabernacle…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures, Folk Dwellings
butsumon 仏門

Lit. Buddha's gate. Also *nandaimon 南大門; *…

Architecture, Gates
Butsunichian kōmotsu mokuroku 仏日庵公物目録

Catalog of objects in Butsunichian, the 14th-century inventory of artistic and other properties of Butsunichian 仏日庵…

Art History, Painting, Document
butsuzō 仏像

A general term that refers to all images of the Buddha used as objects of worship, although most commonly used to refer to…

Art History, Sculpture
buzai 部材

A generic term for the structural members which form the framework *honegumi…

Architecture, General Terms
byakudan 白檀

Sandalwood; santalum album. A tree with fine-grained hardwood, native to India and Southeast Asia. The wood is pale-yellow…

Art History, Sculpture
Byakue Kannon 白衣観音

Also Byakushozon 白処尊 and Byakue Kanjizaimo 白衣観自在母. (Sk: Panduravasini); White-robed *…

Art History, Iconography
byakugō 白毫 ✓

Also *mikenkō 眉間光, miken byakugō 眉間白毫, miken byakugōsō 眉間白毫相…

Art History, Sculpture
byakugun 白群

A pale blue pigment *ganryō 顔料, used in Japanese painting *…

Art History, Painting
byakuroku 白緑

A pale green pigment *ganryō 顔料, used in Japanese painting *…

Art History, Painting
byōbu-e 屏風絵

Paintings on folding screens *byōbu 屏風. 

The earliest record of…

Art History, Painting
byōbu 屏風

A folding screen consisting of multiple, joined panels. Folding screens vary in size; the standard size consists of six…

Art History, Painting
byōbudana 屏風棚

A type of decorative double hanging shelf *tsuridana 釣棚, placed in an alcove…

Architecture, Accessories
byōbuori 屏風折

Also termed *orihei 折塀 (folding wall). A castle wall that zig-zags…

Architecture, Castles
byōmon 廟門 ✓

Also called reibyōmon 霊廟門. An entrance gate to a mausoleum. It can be an elaborate gate in two-storied or simulated…

Architecture, Gates
byōtō 廟塔

Lit. mausoleum pagoda.
1 A pagoda constructed to enshrine a Buddhist image.
2 A five…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
-zukuri 造

A suffix meaning style or type frequently used in Japanese architectural history.

Architecture, General Terms

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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