| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| kumite 組手 | A generic term used in Japanese wood architecture to refer to the joining of one member to another by means of various types… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| kumo gasshōhire 雲合掌鰭 | Lit. cloud principal-rafter fins. A pair of sculpted forms *hire 鰭 in decorative… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kumo shirin 雲支輪 | Also written 雲枝輪. Lit. cloud strut. A type of slanting ceiling strut *shirin 支輪… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kumohijiki 雲肘木 | Kumogata hijiki 雲形肘木. A cloud-patterned bracket arm that is characterized by a somewhat complicated decorative… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kumoto 雲斗 | ✓ | Also pronounced kumomasu or unto. Lit. cloud-shaped bearing block. A bearing block carved with a cloud-… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kumotokyō 雲斗きょう | ✓ | Also called kumogata tokyō 雲形斗きょう or kumogata kumimono 雲形組物. Lit. cloud pattern bracket complex. A… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kumotsudan 供物壇 | The small dais in front of a Buddhist altar on which offerings of boiled rice are placed. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kumoza 雲座 | A base for a Buddhist image *daiza 台座 which takes the form of… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kun 裙 | Also kunsu, kunshi 裙子, mo 裳. A skirt-like garment covering the lower part of a Buddhist priest's… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Kundaikan sōchōki 君台観左右帳記 | A single-volume book detailing Chinese objects, particularly tea-ceremony utensils, given to the shogunal family by Ashikaga… |
Architecture, General Terms, Document | |
| kunisakitō 国東塔 | A single-storied, circular pagoda with a pyramidal roof. A type of *hōtō… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kuniyaki 国焼 | Lit. country fired. An expression used by tea masters in the Edo period to refer to ceramic tea caddies *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kunoji-no-ike 九の字の池 | "Pond (shaped like the) character 九," one type of garden pond. It is described in the garden manual Hihon sakuteiden… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kura-zukuri 蔵造 | An alternative term for *dozō-zukuri 土蔵造, the fireproof… |
Architecture, Storehouses | |
| kurabeuma 競馬 | Also read keiba. Paintings of horse racing. Most often implies the horse races at Kamigamo Jinja 上賀茂神社 in Kyoto. |
Art History, Painting | |
| kuraidori 位取 | The process of laying floor boards so that the edges fit snugly together and the top surface is perfectly smooth. Wherever… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kurama-ishi 鞍馬石 | ✓ | Lit. Kurama stone. A type of granite quarried in the Mt. Kurama 鞍馬 area north of Kyoto. Light brown in color and of fine… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| kurazashiki 蔵座敷 | Also *zashikigura 座敷蔵. A fireproof structure *… |
Architecture, Storehouses | |
| kure 榑 | Also called se-ita 背板. A roof board that is cut along the annual rings nenrin 年輪 of a tree trunk. Such… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kuri-iro 皀色 | Also kuri 皀. A shade of black or dark grey. A dye of this color is made from tannin found in the oak tree Quercus… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kuri-ishi 栗石 | Also pronounced guri-ishi. Chestnut stones. Small stones (10-30 cm in diameter) that were used as packing or… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kuri 庫裡 | 1 Aiso written 庫裏. A structure in the precincts of a temple originally associated primarily with food… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kuri 繰 | Curved designs carved into wood to make moldings *kurigata 繰形. |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kurigata 繰形 | Also written 刳形. Incised or molded decoration that appears on the edge of exposed architectural members such as no sings *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| Kurikara 倶利迦羅 | Also known as Kurika 矩里迦, a transliteration of Sanskrit Kulika, the name of a dragon-king *… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| kurin 九輪 | ✓ | Also kūrin 空輪, hōrin 宝輪. A part of the finial on top of a pagoda. Usually nine metal rings are attached to… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kurinuki kaerumata 刳抜蟇股 | A type of open frog strut honkaerumata 本蟇股, which is cut from a single timber with decorative openwork carvings *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kuriya 厨 | 1 A cooking structure which houses a cooking range *kamado… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| kurodo-no-gosho 黒戸の御所 | Also abbreviated to kurodo 黒戸. Lit. black door of the palace. A long narrow structure that was used for private… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kurohige 黒髭 | Black beard. A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a dragon god which… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kurohon 黒本 | Lit. black book. A type of illustrated novella which flourished between the 1740s and the 1790s. A type of *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kuroki 黒木 | Unstripped or unbarked timber. A log which is cut so that the bark is left intact. Small unbarked logs, left in their… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kuroki torii 黒木鳥居 | The simplest type of Shinto gate *torii 鳥居 belonging to the … |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| Kuron 崑崙 | Also read Konron. Ch: Kunlun. Gigaku mask *gigakumen… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kuruma-ido 車井戸 | Lit. pulley well. A general term for wells in which the water is drawn by a bucket and rope attached to a pulley. This… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kururu 枢 | Also read *toboso 枢; kuro or kuroro.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| kuruwa 郭 | Also written 曲輪. The general term for a castle compound. In the medieval period, when a mountain castle *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kusa-e 草絵 | Colored *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 prints. Kusa-e fall into the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kusa-iro 草色 | Grass-color. A yellow-green color. To make a pigment of this color a blue pigment *aoni… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kusa-no-ma 草の間 | A passage used by grooms in *shoin 書院 style stables *… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| kusabi 楔 | ✓ | A wedge. Easily identified by its isosceles triangle shape. Its two main sides slant from its relatively wide top to a very… |
Architecture, Joints |
| kusabuki 草葺 | Also kusabuki yane 草葺屋根; kuzuyane 葛屋根. Lit. grass roofing. The material used to build one style of… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kusarebushi 腐節 | Lit. decayed knot. A common flaw in wood which can contribute to weakness in any lumber intended to support other members.… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kusari-no-ma 鎖の間 | ✓ | Lit. chain room. The origin of the term is unclear. According to the Fuhaku hikki 不白筆記 (Notes Written by Kawakami… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| kusayagata tōrō 草屋形灯籠 | A type of lantern where the canopy is in the shape of a hipped roof and the flame recipient looks like a house. |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| kusazōshi 草双紙 | Illustrated popular fiction published in Edo from the mid-17th to the late 19th century. Narrative and dialogue was written… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kusen hakkai-ishi 九山八海石 | Lit. stone(s) from the nine mountains and eight seas. A single stone or group of stones placed around another stone meant to… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| Kusha mandara 倶舎曼荼羅 | A painting illustrating the tradition of the Abidatsumakusharon 阿毘達磨倶舎論 (Sk: Abhidharmakos'a), a renowned… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| kushigata ranma 櫛形欄間 | A transom *ranma 欄間, with an arched opening in the shape of a comb *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kushigata 櫛形 | 1 Lit. Comb shape. A semicircular shape、or part of a semicircle, often with trimmed corners. Used in… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kushigatabei 櫛形塀 | ✓ | A partition *hei 塀 between the dado band *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kushigatamado 櫛形窓 | A window in the shape of a comb *kushigata 櫛形. Sometimes built into outside… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kushiro 釧 | A bracelet, usually one produced before the mid-6th century. In the Jōmon period bracelets were made from bivalve shells,… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kutani-yaki 九谷焼 | ✓ | Kutani ware. The term was used from around 1803, but only the original, ko-kutani 古九谷 (old Kutani) was… |
Art History, Crafts |
| Kutsu Gen 屈原 | Ch: Qu Yuan (343?-278 BC). A Chinese scholar-official. The archetypal "sorrowful-poet" and noble exile. Because Qu composed… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kutsu-ishi 沓石 | Also called *hashira-ishi 柱石. Lit. shoe or boot stone. The foundations… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kutsumaki 沓巻 | A decorative metal fitting *kanagu 金具, wound around the bottom… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kutsumon 窟門 | Also called anamon 穴門. Lit. cave gate. An arched side gate *kugurimon… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| kutsunugi-ishi 沓脱石 | ✓ | Lit. shoe-removing stone. A flat-topped stone used for taking off one's shoes before entering a *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kutsuzuri 沓摺 | ✓ | Also kutsuzuriwaku 沓摺枠. A threshold or doorsill upon which a hinged door closes snugly because the sill is a little… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| Kūya 空也 | An abbreviation of Kūya Shōnin 空也上人 or Saint Kūya (903-72), the monk responsible for the spread of Pure… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| kuyōtō 供養塔 | A memorial pagoda, for which there is no particular shape or size. Kuyōtō is an offering of worldly goods such… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kuyuza くゆ座 | Also senkuza 氈く座, kyūza 毬座, or mōsenza 毛氈座. A dais *daiza… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kuzurezumi 崩積 | A crumbling wall. A type of stone fence *ishigaki 石垣 in which stones are… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kyaku-datami 客畳 | The guest's mat in a tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室. It is usually close to… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kyaku-ishi 客石 | Lit. guest stone. A type of stepping stone *yaku-ishi 役石 placed… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kyakuden 客殿 | Lit. guest hall. A building constructed in one of three residential styles: *shoin-… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kyakuza 客座 | 1 A seat used by a guest.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| kyō-e 経絵 | 1 Lit. paintings of sutra. A painting depicting the content of Buddhist sutra, however, is usually called… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kyō-no-maki 経の巻 | ✓ | Lit. sutra scrolls. Three or five cylindrical tiles found at the top of a lion-mouth roof *… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| kyōbako 経箱 | Sutra box. Although usually rectangular these come in many shapes, having a lid and sometimes a foot. Typically the material… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| kyōchi 境致 | Natural scenery of a particular place; environment. Whenever possible, temples of the Zen 禅 sect during the medieval period… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kyōcho 夾紵 | The Chinese term for the dry lacquer technique, pronounced jiazhu in Chinese. In ancient Japanese documents dry lacquer was… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Kyōgano 京狩野 | The Kyoto branch of the Kano school *Kano-ha 狩野派, founded by Kano… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Kyōgen gekichiku 香巌撃竹 | Ch: Xiangyan Jizhu. Also read Kōgan gekichiku. A painting subject of the Tang dynasty Zen 禅 (Ch: Chan) priest… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kyōgenbon 狂言本 | Also called *eiri kyōgenbon 絵入狂言本. An Edo period woodblock printed book… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kyōgenmen 狂言面 | Masks used for kyōgen 狂言 plays. Kyōgen is a comic theatre form, which together with the more serious *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kyōgōzuri 校合摺 | Proof prints made from the key block (the block that prints the dark outlines of a woodblock print *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kyōji 経師 | Originally, professionals who hand-copied sutras in the Nara period. Later the appellation referred to artisans who mounted… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kyōji 脇侍 | Also written 挟侍. Also wakishi 脇士, wakidachi 脇立. Also pronounced attendant figures. In groups of Buddhist… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kyōji 胸字 | The mark 卍 manji on the chest of the Buddha. Kyōji is listed as one of the 32 attributes of Buddha *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kyojō 居城 | Also read ijō and ijiro. A castle or fortification in which the castle lord resides on a daily basis… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kyokan 居館 | 1 A manor or palace, yakata 館, where a lord resides.
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Architecture, Castles | |
| kyokuroku 曲ろく | Also written 曲禄. Also less commonly called kyoku 曲 or kyokugi 曲木. Lit. curved wood. A chair made of… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kyōma 京間 | 1 The standard measurement used for bay size in the Kansai 関西 region, along the Inland Sea, along the San'… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kyōninkei 杏仁形 | Lit. apricot-kernel shape. This term refers to the eyes of Buddhist statues, which are wide open in the shape of an apricot… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kyōrogumi 京呂組 | ✓ | The method used to attach a purlin *jōyageta 上屋桁 and transverse beams *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kyoshimon 鋸歯文 | ✓ | Also called sen kyoshimon 線鋸歯文. Saw-tooth pattern. Kyoshimon includes the zigzag pattern *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| kyoshinkō 挙身光 | Lit. whole body halo. A halo, *kōhai 光背 surrounding the head and body of a… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kyōshoku 狭軾 | Armrest. The word was used in the Nara period, but amended to kyōsoku 脇息 in the mid-Heian period. Shapes are… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kyōshoku 胸飾 | Also read munakazari, or kyōtetsu 胸綴. An ornament found on the breast of *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Kyoto busshi 京都仏師 | Also kyō busshi 京仏師. Buddhist sculptors *busshi 仏師 associated with… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kyōyaki 京焼 | ✓ | Kyoto ware. General name of the ceramic wares of Kyoto (except *rakuyaki… |
Art History, Crafts |
| Kyoyū and Sōho 許由・巣父 | Ch: Xu You Chao Fu. A painting subject representing two legendary Chinese scholar-hermits famous for their extreme… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kyōzō 経蔵 | ✓ | Also called kyōko 経庫, kyōdō 経堂, zōden 蔵殿. A repository and storehouse for sutras, or sacred books… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| kyōzutsu 経筒 | Sutra cylinder. A container for the Buddhist sutras placed in the sutra mound kyōzuka 経塚: cylinders of circular,… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| kyūdaisu 及台子 | ✓ | Kyūdaisu is an abridged form of kyūdai daisu 及第台子. Also written 弓台子. An informal type of portable… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| kyūden 宮殿 | Also kūden 空殿.
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Architecture, Accessories | |
| kyūjiguchi 給仕口 | Also called kamuroguchi 禿口, *kayoiguchi 通い口 or *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kyūkado sama 急角狭間 | A corner loophole or gunport. Loopholes made at a ninety-degree corner of a castle wall, rather than in a flat wall. The… |
Architecture, Castles |
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