| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| Kinzanji 金山寺 | Ch: Jinshansi. A well-known Zen 禅 (Ch: Chan) temple in Zhenjiang 鎮江, southeast Jiangsu 江蘇 province, China. The famous temple… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kinzokuzō 金属像 | Metal statue. A variety of metals were used for statues in Japan, including iron and silver, but bronze *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kioi 木負 | A flying rafter support. A long horizontal timber or plate placed close to the ends of the base rafters *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kioioroshi 木負卸 | ✓ | A method used to determine the proper width of a veranda. The technique positions the outer edge of the veranda in direct… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kirabiki 雲母引 | An undercoat of mica *kirara 雲母粉 mixed with sizing *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kirara 雲母粉 | Also kira, ummo, or unbo 雲母. Mica. Mica is a silicate mineral with a layered structure, whose… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kireisabi きれいさび | Lit. refined rusticity. Also written 綺麗寂. An aesthetic ideal of the early 17th century associated with the *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kiri-ishi 切石 | Lit. cut stones. Angular, free cut stones that can be a paved walkway *nobedan… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kiri-ishibashi 切石橋 | Lit. cut stone bridge. A type of stone bridge *ishibashi 石橋,… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kiri-ishijiki 切石敷 | ✓ | Cut paving stones. The stones may be slabs cut freely in any desired shapes. The stone paving laid at Katsura Rikyū 桂離宮 in… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| kiri 錐 | A gimlet. A tool used to bore holes in timber by rotating the blade tip. Gimlets are divided into three types depending on… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| kiriage tenjō 切上天井 | A raised ceiling. A ceiling raised by a low wall, straight struts, or vertical or horizontal strips of wood. A ceiling… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kiriago 切顎 | Detached chin of a mask. A feature of the bugaku mask *bugakumen… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kiridoguchi 切戸口 | Also called kirido 切戸, okubyōguchi 臆病口, wasureguchi 忘れ口. A small wicket entrance with a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kiridome 切止 | 1 The end of the handle of a tea scoop *chashaku 茶杓. Various… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kiridōshi 切通 | A road, or entrance, that is constructed by cutting through mountainous or hilly terrain, leaving sharply hewed vertical… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kirigegyo 切懸魚 | Lit. cut bargeboard pendant.
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Architecture, Decorations | |
| kirigishi 切岸 | A man-made, precipitous bank or steep bluff excavated while constructing a road through mountainous terrain *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kirihafu 切破風 | Also kirizuma hafu 切妻破風. A term used for bargeboards *hafu 破風, attached… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kirihaku 切箔 | Lit. cut-foil. A method of ornamentation using gold and/or silver leaf cut *haku… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kirihikite 切引手 | Also *chiriotoshifusuma 塵落襖. A type of door catch found on a thick,… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kirikane 切金 | Also written 截金. Lit. cut-gold.
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Art History, Painting | |
| kiriko-e 切子絵 | One type of brightly colored paper, chiyogami 千代紙 on which small designs of theater costumes, crests, flowers… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kiriko 切子 | 1 A square structural element from which a right angled section cut from each corner. Also called … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kirikomihagi 切込矧ぎ | ✓ | Lit. cut and inserted masonry. A type of stone wall *ishigaki 石垣 construction… |
Architecture, Castles |
| kirikumi 切組 | Also kirikizami 切刻み. The measuring and cutting of all structural members into predetermined forms. Before large… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kirime nageshi 切目長押 | A threshhold tie beam. A penetrating tie beam placed between the sliding door track *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kirimedō 切馬道 | In the 10th to 12th century, an earthen floored passageway that was a continuation of a floored connecting corridor, … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kirimen 切面 | ✓ | Also kiremen. The simple chamfer used on a square post with straight-cut, 45 degrees planed corners. The tool used… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kirin 麒麟 | Ch: qilin. A mythical Chinese animal that combines the elemental male animal ki 麒 (Ch: qi) and the female rin… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kiriotoshiguchi 切落口 | ✓ | An opening set into the second-story floor of a storehouse *dozō 土蔵 or shop… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kirisasu 切扠首 | 1 A short, diagonal timber which receives the helmet beam kabutogeta 兜桁 on a thatched roof … |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kirishitan dōrō キリシタン灯篭 | Lit. A Christian lantern. A lantern with carved designs of Christian figures were influenced by the early Christians in 16th… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| Kiritsubo 桐壺 | ✓ | A pictorial subject based on the opening Chapter, "The Paulownia Court" Kiritsubo of Genji monogatari… |
Art History, Painting |
| kiriyokebisashi 霧除廂 | Also called mabisashi 眉廂. A small eave, generally not exceeding 30 cm, that extends from the top of the lintel *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kirizuka 切束 | A short strut centered between a base sill and themiddle rail of a balustrade. | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kirizuma yane 切妻屋根 | ✓ | Also called *ryōsage 両下 or ryōka 両下. One of the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kirizuma-zukuri 切妻造 | ✓ | Also called *ryōsage 両下; iraka-zukuri 甍造. A style of building… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kirizumi 切墨 | A carpenter's term for the ink line drawn on a timber to indicate where it should be cut. The tool used to draw this line is… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Kishi-ha 岸派 | A painting school founded by Ganku 岸駒 (1749/56-1838), which was characterized by bold and vigorous depictions of animals,… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kishū-ishi 紀州石 | Lit. Kishū stones. A type of blue stone *ao-ishi 青石, quarried in… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kiso 基礎 | ✓ | The footing or foundation of a building. A generic term for any substructure that bears the weight of a superstructure.… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kissakōmongashi 喫茶敲門瓦子 | Lit. piece of tile knocking against the gate. A handbook on the Sen 千 family, tea ceremony, written by Fujii Iseki 藤井維石 and… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kisshōmon 吉祥文 | A broad range of decorative designs which are thought to bring good fortune. Many were brought to Japan from China but some… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Kitagomon 北御門 | A group of gates that face north found outside the sacred areas of Ise Jingū 伊勢神宮. With the exception of the outermost fence… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| Kitano tenjin engi 北野天神縁起 | Also sometimes abbreviated to tenjin engi 天神縁起 (History of Kitano Tenjin). A combination biography and… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| kitasōmon 北総門 | A general purpose gate on the north side of a compound. |
Architecture, Gates | |
| Kitayama bunka 北山文化 | Lit. north mountain culture. The culture of the early Muromachi period *… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| Kitoku 貴徳 | Art History, Sculpture | ||
| kitsune gōshi 狐格子 | ✓ | Also kizure gōshi 木連格子; tsumagōshi 妻格子. The latticework that fills the gable pediment, hafu-no… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kitsune 狐 | Fox. The fox is represented in the kyōgen 狂言 play Tsurigitsune 釣狐 (Fox Trapping) by a masked… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kitsunedo 狐戸 | A corrupted form for *tsumado 妻戸. Latticework *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kiwaganna 際鉋 | A plane used for shaving and finishing the sides of a mortise or an internal angle. There is a plane for left-side cutting… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| kiwame-in 極印 | 1 Lit. examined seal: i.e. seal of examination. A small round censorship seal containing the character '… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kiwamegaki 極書 | Lit. certificates of authenticity. A written appraisal or authentication of an artwork. There are four types of appraisals… |
Painting | |
| kiwaneda 際根太 | Lit. edge joist. A joist set along the bottom edges of posts or pillars to provide a place to attach the ends of floor… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kiwari 木割 | Lit. wood-cutting. Also kikudaki 木砕. A system for measuring out the wooden components to be used in architecture or… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kiyodokoro 清所 | Lit. office of purification. Often synonymous with *kamidaidokoro上台所, *… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| kiyomizuyaki 清水焼 | Kiyomizuware. One of the terms commonly given to similar wares produced by several local kilns and associated with the old… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| kiyosehō 木寄法 | The rules governing the relative proportions of parts when a wooden statue is made by the joining of several pieces of wood… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kiza 跪坐 | ✓ | A kneeling position for a Buddhist image. Bodhisattva figures *Kannon 観音 and *… |
Art History, Sculpture |
| kiza 箕座 | ✓ | A seated position of Buddhist images in which both legs are stretched out to one side. The name of this position is derived… |
Art History, Sculpture |
| kizuchi 木槌 | A mallet that is usually made of oak or holly. It is used in cases where a metal hammer such as the *… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| kizukuri 木造 | 1 The process of working on timber to create the desired structural element. See *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kizuri 木摺 | Wooden slats, placed 2 cm apart, which are attached horizontally to main posts *hashira… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ko-ezu 古絵図 | Old sketch maps of proprietary estates and temple precincts. The earliest examples are the maps preserved in the *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kō-ita 甲板 | A long thick horizontal board placed at the apex of a roof as a cover to protect the uppermost ridge. The board is used… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| ko-ita 小板 | ✓ | 1 The small strip of red pine that is inserted between the end of the firebox and the rear wall, or between… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| kō 甲 | A general term for armor, yoroi 鎧（*ōyoroi 大鎧) and helmets *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| ko-omote 小面 | A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a girl in the first blush of womanhood. The… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Kō Sankoku 黄山谷 | Ch: Huang Shangu (1045-1105). One of the best-known calligraphers and poets of the Northern Song dynasty, depicted in… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Kō Shohei 黄初平 | Ch: Huang Chuping. Taoist immortal figure and magician of the Jin dynasty known for his ability to transform a herd of sheep… |
Art History, Painting | |
| koakujō 小悪尉 | A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a fierce, old man. Koakujō's features… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| koana 小穴 | ✓ | A shallow, narrow groove cut into a pillar, flooring board or other structural element to allow for a secure junction with… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kōbai 勾配 | Incline, slope, or pitch. Applied especially to the incline of the roof, yane kōbai 屋根勾配, in traditional Japanese… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Kōbai 紅梅 | ✓ | A pictorial subject taken from "The Rose Plum" Kōbai (red plum blossoms), Chapter 43 of Genji monogatari … |
Art History, Painting |
| koban 小判 | Lit. small format. A size of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 print that is a quarter… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kobari 小梁 | Also kōtsubari or kō-otsubari 甲乙梁. A smaller beam used in conjunction with a large one, ōbari 大梁… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kobeshimi 小べし見 | A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a demon from hell who dances a fierce dance. A… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kobisha 媚茶 | A dark grey-brown color. Dye extracted from the bark of the plum tree, momokawa 楊梅皮 is used with an iron mordant to… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Kōbō Daishi 弘法大師 | Lit. Great Master Kōbō. The posthumous name of *Kūkai 空海 (774-835), the founder… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| kōbō 工房 | A studio or place of work for artists and craftsmen. Also refers to artists or craftsmen who group together to produce work… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kobōsho 小奉書 | A small-sized sheet of *hōsho 奉書 paper that is approximately 33 x 47 cm. After… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kobushibana 拳鼻 | Lit. a fist nosing.
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Architecture, Decorations | |
| kobusuma 小襖 | The small, opaque, paper-framed sliding doors found on cupboards above or below shelving adjacent to the alcove *… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| Kochō 胡蝶 | ✓ | A pictorial subject based on "Butterflies" Kochō, Chapter 24 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of… |
Art History, Painting |
| kochōsō 胡蝶装 | Ch: hudiezhuang. Lit. butterfly book. A type of book-binding, which, according to some, is the same as *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kodai 古代 | Lit. ancient periods. A period that includes the introduction of Buddhisim to Japan in 530/552, the Asuka period (552-646),… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| kodō 胡銅 | A kind of bronze used in North China and Japan. It was known in Japan by the Muromachi period, with variants including … |
Art History, Crafts | |
| kōdō 講堂 | 1 Lecture hall in a Buddhist temple. In the Nara and Heian periods, it was one of the principal buildings… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kodomo-e 子供絵 | Woodblock prints *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 with children as their subject. No adults are… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kodomoe 小巴 | Also called komarugawara 小丸瓦. Eave-end, semi-cylindrical tiles *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| kōetsujigaki 光悦寺垣 | Lit. Kōetsuji fence. Also kōetsugaki 光悦垣. A type of open, woven bamboo fence *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kofun 古墳 | Burial mound. Also called takatsuka 高塚 or tsuka 塚. These tombs were covered with a sizeable mound of… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| Kofun jidai 古墳時代 | The Kofun period (250 - 600). *Kofun 古墳 are the burial mounds or tumuli which… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| kōfūzō 綱封蔵 | ✓ | Also called *narabigura 双倉 or twin storehouses. A large… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| Koga bikō 古画備考 | Lit. Remarks on Old Paintings, a 51 chapter, mid-19th century, painters' biography compiled by Asaoka Okisada 朝岡興禎 (1800-56… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kogaeri 小返 | ✓ | An inclined plane. Any plane that descends downward on either side of a ridge *mune… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kōgai 笄 | A nail used to secure the molds used in metal casting. When a metal statue was cast using the lost-wax method, a model of… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kogaseki 虎臥石 | Lit. lying tiger stone. A type of trump stone *yaku-ishi 役石 placed at… |
Architecture, Gardens |
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