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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
Ichiji kinrin mandara 一字金輪曼荼羅

A variety of small, decidated mandala *besson mandara 別尊曼荼羅 centered on…

Art History, Iconography
Ichiji kinrin 一字金輪

Lit. One-Syllable Golden Wheel. Also read Ichiji konrin and also known as Kinrin Butchō 金輪仏頂 (Golden-…

Art History, Iconography
Idaten 韋駄天

Also written 違駄天. The Indian deity Skanda, son of Shiva and general of his army, who became a protector of the Dharma in…

Art History, Iconography
Ikkyū 一休

An abbreviation of Ikkyū Zenji 一休禅師, the Zen 禅 priest Ikkyū (1394-1481) of the *…

Art History, Iconography
Ippen 一遍

Commonly known as Ippen Shōnin 一遍上人 or St. Ippen (1234-89). The founder of the Ji 時 sect. From Iyo 伊予 Province (modern Ehime…

Art History, Iconography
Izusan Gongen 伊豆山権現

Also called Hashiriyu Gongen 走湯権現. A deity associated with a hot spring which wells up on Izusan 伊豆山, a hill of 166…

Art History, Iconography

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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