| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| jabara ita 蛇腹板 | ✓ | Lit. snake belly board. The boards lined up under the thick eave ends nokizuke 軒付 of a cypress bark *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| jabara 蛇腹 | Lit. snake's belly. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jabara shirin 蛇腹支輪 | ✓ | Also called honshirin 本支輪 (main shirin). A short, curved, non-supporting transitional member that connects… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| jabara tenjō 蛇腹天井 | ✓ | Lit. snake belly ceiling. An open or exposed ceiling composed of curved, parallel rafters, thought to resemble a snake's… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| jabaragawa 蛇腹皮 | Lit. snake skin. The boards lined up under the thick eave ends nokizuke 軒付 of a cypress bark *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jaki 邪鬼 | Sk: yaksa. Evil spirits believed to harm human beings and hinder Buddhist teaching. Usually appear in sculptures as small… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| jari 砂利 | Gravel, small stones, or pebbles. A corrupted form of sazare 細 meaning tiny stones. Jari have been given… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jibori 字彫 | Also hikkōbori 筆耕彫. The engravers or block-carvers of written text woodblocks for printed books. From… |
Art History, Painting | |
| jibuki 地葺 | The traditional method of laying or setting tiles on the sheathing *noji 野地 of… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| jibukuro 地袋 | ✓ | A small cabinet with sliding doors at the bottom of open, often split-level shelves *… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings |
| jibutsudō 持仏堂 | Also called *butsuma 仏間. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jichinsai 地鎮祭 | Also called chinjisai 鎮地祭; jisai 地祭, jiiwai 地祝, tsuchimatsuri 土祭 or tokoshizume no… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| jidaruki 地垂木 | Also called omodaruki 母垂木. A base rafter that extends outward from the roof framework, generally the eave purlin *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jidō 慈童 | A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a sprite who possesses the elixir of long life… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Jie 慈恵 | Commonly known as Jie Daishi 慈恵大師 or Great Master Jie. The posthumous name of Ryōgen 良源 (912-85), abbot at… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| jien hikaku 地円飛角 | ✓ | Also read chien hikaku. Double eaves *futanoki 二軒, composed of base… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| jifuku 地覆 | 1 A sleeper. The lowermost horizontal beam that spans the width of a bay *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jifuku-ishi 地覆石 | Also written 地幅石. A long horizontal base stone, sometimes called a sleeper, or a continuous plinth course. It is placed at… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jifuku nageshi 地覆長押 | Also jinageshi 地長押. A non-penetrating tie beam that is shaped to fit snugly around the base of a pillar. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jiga jisan 自画自賛 | The practice of adding a poetic inscription to one's own painting. The poetic inscription is typically related to the… | Art History, Painting | |
| Jigoku dayū 地獄太夫 | A famous courtesan of Sakai 堺 known for her relationship with the Daitokuji 大徳寺 priest *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| jigokuhozo 地獄ほぞ | ✓ | Lit. hell tenon. So named because once it is inserted, it is impossible to withdraw. A blind tenon joint with wedges *… |
Architecture, Joints |
| jiguchi-e 地口絵 | A picture based on a word pun, popular around the mid-18th century. Most were drawn by town painters *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| jigyō 地業 | Also 地形 chikei. The preliminary foundation work on a building. Materials for this include: rubble *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jihatsu 地髪 | Hair on the head of a Buddha *nyorai 如来 statue, not including the *… | Art History, Sculpture | |
| jihiro 地火炉 | Also read jikaro. |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| jihisō 慈悲相 | Also bosatsusō 菩薩相. The expression of compassion found on Buddhist images. The opposite is *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| jikidō 食堂 | Also called saidō 斎堂. A refectory. An independent building on temple grounds where priests and monks had their… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jikirō 食籠 | A lidded food container, usually layered and lacquered with decorations of sunken gold *… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| jikkai zu 十界図 | Lit. Picture of the ten realms. In Buddhism the ten realms jikkai 十界 refer to the ten realms of being, which are… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| jikkan jūnishi 十干十二支 | Also kanshi 干支 and eto えと. Ch: shigan shierzhi. Lit. ten stems and twelve branches. Referred to… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Jikokuten 持国天 | Sk: Dhrtarastra. A guardian deity with fierce expression *funnusō 忿怒相,… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| jiku 軸 | 1 A roller used for a hanging scroll *kakemono 掛物 or hand… |
Art History, Painting, Tea Houses, Architecture | |
| jikuana 軸穴 | Also 軸孔; jikuzuriana 軸吊穴; jiku uke 軸受; tobira jikuana 扉軸穴. The socket into which the pivot hinge… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jikubu 軸部 | The framework or body of a building between the foundation and the roof structure. In traditional architecture it includes… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jikukakekugi 軸掛釘 | Also jikukugi 軸釘, kakemonokugi 掛物釘. A hook for hanging scrolls, *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| jikuzuri 軸吊 | ✓ | Also written 軸釣, 軸摺. Pivot hinge. A metal covered wooden-core pivot inserted into a socket *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| jimotsu 持物 | Also read jibutsu. Sk: lakasana. The hand-held attributes of a Buddhist image. Along with the mudra *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| jimune 地棟 | A base ridge. |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| jinaimachi 寺内町 | Also jinaichō. A type of religious township that developed in the Sengoku period in connection mainly with temples… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| jinbaori 陣羽織 | Campaign jacket. A short garment worn over armor. Based on European prototypes introduced by the Portuguese at the end of… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| jinbutsu jūhachibyō 人物十八描 | Ch: renwu shibamiao. Lit. eighteen types of figural portrayal. A group of brush styles traditionally employed in painting to… |
Art History, Painting | |
| jinchū 人中 | Also ninchū. A vertical groove between the nose and upper lip of Buddhist images. The jinchū differed… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| jingūji 神宮寺 | Also called jingoji 神護寺, jingū'in 神宮院, jinganji 神願寺, miyadera 宮寺, or bettōji… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jinja kenchiku 神社建築 | Lit. shrine architecture. The architecture associated with Shinto shrines, including all the shrine buildings, shaden… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| jinja 神社 | ✓ | A generic name for a Shinto shrine. Before World War Two shrines were classified into five categorize: first rank, … |
Architecture, Shrines |
| Jinja Taishō 深沙大将 | Also read Jinja Daishō. Lit. General Deep-Sand. A divinity said to have appeared in a dream to the renowned Chinese… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| jinjiro 陣城 | Lit. camp fortress. A temporary fortification constructed on a battlefield or stopping-place by armies on the march, used… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| jintai 神体 | Lit. God body or God style; also written 神容. A noh mask*nōmen 能面 representing a… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| jinuki 地貫 | Also called shimonuki 下貫. A penetrating tie beam at the base of a pillar or a tie beam beneath a building's… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jinuri 地塗り | A base coat. The process of preparing ancient painting surfaces by completely covering the materials used, such as paper,… |
Art History, Painting | |
| jirenge 持蓮華 | An object shaped like a lotus bud and stem used in Buddhist rituals, particularly favored by the Ji 時 sect. Usually made of… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| jiro 地炉 | Also *ro 炉 |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| jisanzō 自賛像 | A portrait bearing a poetic inscription written by the painter. |
Art History, Painting | |
| jishin bansho 自身番所 | The office or guardroom provided in each city ward *machi 町, in the city of Edo… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| jissaku 十作 | The Ten Greatest Ancient Sculptors of Noh masks *nōmen 能面… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| jisumigi 地隅木 | A base hip rafter found at the corners of a roof. Ordinary rafters *jidaruki… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Jitchikusai shogafu 十竹斎書画譜 | Ch: Shizhuzhai shuhuapu. Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting, a late Ming period color woodblock-printed… |
Art History, Painting | |
| jitō 耳とう | Also nitō. Round earrings found on sculpted Buddhist images. These were used on Chinese figures, but were extremely… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| jitsubushi 地潰し | Also tsubushi 潰し. A plain background of a single color on a woodblock print *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| jitsugetsu sansui zu 日月山水図 | Also jitsugetsu zu 日月図. A pictorial subject that combines the motifs of the sun and moon in landscapes of the four… |
Art History, Painting | |
| jizaikagi 自在鈎 | ✓ | A pothook. A device that enables a pot nabe 鍋 or tea kettle tetsubin 鉄瓶 to be suspended over a sunken… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses |
| Jizō 地蔵 | Lit. earth repository (Sk: Ksitigarbha). A bodhisattva *bosatsu 菩薩 believed to… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| jizō gōshi 地蔵格子 | A latticed door made with both horizontal and vertical laths at the same surface level. There are no recessed laths nailed… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jizōdō 地蔵堂 | ✓ | A temple hall where the Buddhist deity *Jizō 地蔵 (Sk. Ksitigarbha) is… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| jizumi 地墨 | Making carbon ink *sumi 墨 by grinding an ink stick on an inkstone… |
Art History, Painting | |
| jō 畳 | Also written 帖. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| jō-in Amida 定印阿弥陀 | Amida with the jō-in 定印 or *zenjō-in 禅定印 (Sk: dhyanamudra;… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| jō 帖 | 1 A form of concertina-folded book *orihon 折本. |
Art History, Painting | |
| jō 丈 | A unit of linear measure that equals 3.03 meters or about 10 feet. Equivalent to 10 shaku 尺. Although the metric… |
Architecture, Measurement | |
| jōbyō tekitō 浄瓶てき倒 | Ch: Jingping tidao. Also reads jōhei tōtō. A painting subject of the Tang dynasty Zen priests Izan Reiyū い山霊祐 (Ch:… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Jōchōyō 定朝様 | A style of sculpture created by the Buddhist sculptor *busshi 仏師 Jōchō 定朝 (?-… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| jōdan 上段 | ✓ | A dais or a part of the floor in aristocratic dwellings of the *shoin 書院 style,… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings |
| Jōdo Goso 浄土五祖 | The Five Chinese Patriarchs of the Pure Land Jōdo 浄土 sect. The sect was organized in Japan by *… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| jōdo hensō 浄土変相 | Abbreviation of jōdo hensō zu 浄土変相図. Also known as jōdo mandara 浄土曼荼羅. Pictorial representations, often… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| Jōdo sanmandara 浄土三曼荼羅 | Lit. three Pure Land Mandalas. Traditionally refers to the three most famous types of *… |
Architecture, Iconography | |
| jōdo teien 浄土庭園 | Lit. Pure Land garden. Large pond gardens at Pure Land Buddhist temples which recreate the palatial garden of *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| Jōdodō 浄土堂 | Lit. Pure Land Hall. The main hall of the Shingon 真言 sect temple of Jōdoji 浄土寺 in Hyōgo Prefecture, dedicated to *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Jōdokyō bijutsu 浄土教美術 | Art of the Pure Land faith. Originating in the Nara period, Pure Land Buddhism is a more personal form of the faith than… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| jōfu 上布 | Lit. superior cloth. A jōfu lightweight, fine hand-woven cloth made lightweight from delicate hand-twisted ramie… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| jōfuku 条幅 | A hanging scroll *kakemono 掛物 made of a paper called *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Jōgan gishiki 貞観儀式 | The Jōgan gishiki is a ten volume collection of ceremony regulations compiled by Fujiwara Ujimune 藤原氏宗 by order of… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Jōge nidanshiki teien 上下二段式庭園 | Lit. upper-lower, two-step style garden. A modern term designating a common type of bipartite garden featuring a small pond… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| jōge 上下 | Also called tenchi 天地 or jidai 地題. A part of the mounting of a hanging scroll *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| jōgi 定規 | ✓ | A gauge used to confirm the straightness of structural members. A structural member is placed between the two boards of the… |
Architecture, Tools |
| jōgibiki 定規引き | Also called *kaiga 界画. A line drawing technique where a straight edge or… |
Art History, Painting | |
| jōgo zukuri 漏斗造 | Also called jōgomune 漏斗棟. A roof-style found on vernacular houses *minka… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| jōgyōdō 常行堂 | Also called jōgyō sanmaidō 常行三昧堂. A hall where a devotee walks around a statue of the *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jōhachi 丈八 | A standard height for a Buddhist statue. A variation of the *jōroku 丈六.… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| jōhaku 条帛 | A decorative scarf worn by Buddhist deities and guardian figures. It is draped diagonally across the upper body, usually… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Jōi Monju 縄衣文殊 | Also read Jōe Monju (Ch: shengyi wenshu). Lit. rope-robed *Monju… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| jōi 上居 | Also written 常居. |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| jōjōdan 上々段 | ✓ | A relatively small space elevated one step higher than the *jōdan 上段,… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings |
| jōkamachi 城下町 | Lit. town below the castle. A castle town. A town's fortress was located as a rule in a mountain, while the accompanying… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| Jōmeimon 承明門 | ✓ | Also read Shōmeimon, called *Kōmon 閤門. A large, single-storied gate… |
Architecture, Gates |
| jōmen 尉面 | A mask representing an old man, jō 尉, in particular the old men masks of the *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Jōmon jidai 繩文時代 | Lit. cord-mark period. The Jōmon period ran from ca. 10,000 BC-ca. 300 BC. The period takes its name from the decoration on… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| jōōgata tōrō 紹鴎形灯籠 | A lantern with a canopy and a square fire holder higuchi 火口 supported below the middle base by a single natural… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| jorinmoku 如鱗杢 | Also 如鱗木, gyorinmoku 魚鱗木. Lit. curly wood-grain. |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| jōroku 丈六 | A standard height for a Buddhist statue. Abbreviation of one *jō 丈 and six … |
Art History, Sculpture |
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