| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| chidori 千鳥 | Plovers or (rarely) sanderlings: small birds that live in flocks near water, a popular design motif either alone or combined… |
Art History, Painting | |
| chikurin shichiken 竹林七賢 | ✓ | Ch: Zhulin Qixian. Lit. Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. A pictorial theme based on seven Chinese literati who, to… |
Art History, Painting |
| chikushi 竹紙 | A yellow-brown paper made in China from bamboo fibers. Commonly known in Japan as *tōshi… |
Art History, Painting | |
| chinsō 頂相 | ✓ | Also chinzō. Lit. head's appearance. A naturalistic portrait, sculpted or painted, of a Zen 禅 master's head. … |
Art History, Painting |
| chirimen-e 縮緬絵 | A multi-colored print which was rolled around a bar and then rubbed to give it crinkles and creases as if it had been… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Chō Karō 張果老 | Ch: Zhang Guolao. Also called Tongxuan (Jp: Tsūgen 通玄). One of the Daoist, eight immortals *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Chō Ryō・Kō Sekikō 張良・黄石公 | Ch: Zhang Liang・Huang Shigong. Heroic Chinese warriors of the Han dynasty. Zhang Liang (BC 168-137), originally… |
Art History, Painting | |
| chōba-zu 調馬図 | Lit. pictures of horse training. One theme of genre painting *fūzokuga 風俗画… |
Art History, Painting | |
| chōban 長判 | Also read nagaban. Also called naga-e 長絵. Lit. long format. A size of *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| chōji 丁子 | Also written 丁字. A deep yellow, dull orange, or tan colored aromatic dye senryō 染料 made from the flowers or… |
Art History, Painting | |
| chōjōfuku 長条幅 | 1 A hanging scroll *kakemono 掛物 that is vertically oriented… |
Art History, Painting | |
| chōka 鳥窠 | Ch: Niaoke. Lit. bird's nest. A painting subject depicting the Tang dynasty eccentric priest Dōrin 道林 (Ch: Daolin), also… |
Art History, Painting | |
| chōkan zuhō 鳥瞰図法 | A bird's-eye view. Also fukan zuhō 俯瞰図法 (view from above). One type of perspective popular in Japanese… |
Art History, Painting | |
| chōkō-zu 蝶幸図 | Ch: diexingtu. Lit. Picture of the Butterfly of Happiness, or Picture of the Butterfly and the Emperor's Visit. A… |
Art History, Painting | |
| chokuhitsu 直筆 | A painting and calligraphy technique where the brush is held perpendicular to the paper so that just the tip is used to… |
Art History, Painting | |
| choshi 楮紙 | Also read kōzogami and kajigami 梶紙. Formerly called kokushi 穀紙 during the Heian period. Paper… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Chotō 猪頭 | Ch: Zhutou. A painting subject depicting the Northern Song dynasty eccentric priest Zhimeng (J: Shimō 志蒙). He was known… |
Art History, Painting | |
| chōyō・taigetsu 朝陽・対月 | ✓ | Ch: chaoyang duiyue. A Zen painting subject depicting a priest sewing in the morning sun (Jp: chōyō … |
Art History, Painting |
| chūban 中判 | Lit. medium-size format. A size of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 print. The term chūban… |
Art History, Painting | |
| chūberi 中縁 | A part of the mounting of a hanging scroll *kakemono 掛物. The chūberi… |
Art History, Painting | |
| chūhon 中本 | Lit. a middle-size book. A woodblock printed book, popular during the Edo period, which is one-half the size of a … |
Art History, Painting | |
| Chūshingura 忠臣蔵 | A pictorial subject matter taken from The Treasury of Loyal Retainers Chūshingura, an epic and well-loved story of… |
Art History, Painting |
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