Skip to main content

JAANUS

  • # (1)
  • a (164)
  • b (123)
  • c (138)
  • d (144)
  • e (109)
  • f (114)
  • g (186)
  • h (452)
  • i (179)
  • j (138)
  • k (902)
  • m (398)
  • n (303)
  • o (176)
  • r (136)
  • s (783)
  • t (407)
  • u (134)
  • w (53)
  • y (199)
  • z (63)
  • Architecture (220)
  • Aristocratic Dwellings (1)
  • Art History (85)
  • Buildings (13)
  • Castles (10)
  • Crafts (5)
  • Decorations (9)
  • Document (6)
  • Folk Dwellings (19)
  • Gardens (8)
  • Gates (9)
  • General Terms (118)
  • Iconography (12)
  • Joints (4)
  • Lanterns (2)
  • Painting (39)
  • Roofing Tiles (14)
  • Sculpture (20)
  • Shrines (7)
  • Structures (13)
  • Tea Houses (16)
  • Tools (2)

Displaying 301 - 304 of 304
Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
nyoi 如意

An implement carried by Buddhist priests at a ceremony or during formal preaching. It has a slightly curved handle about 30-…

Art History, Sculpture
Nyoirin Kannon 如意輪観音

Sk: Cintamanicakra. A form of *Kannon 観音, most often six armed and…

Art History, Iconography
nyorai 如来

Lit. "the thus-come one." Sk: tathagata. One who has realized true enlightenment. In order to reach this state of…

Art History, Iconography
-zukuri 造

A suffix meaning style or type frequently used in Japanese architectural history.

Architecture, General Terms

Pagination

  • First page « First
  • Previous page ‹‹
  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Current page 4

Contributor Login

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