| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| yokobikinoko 横挽鋸 | Also read yokobiki nokogiri. A crosscut saw. A saw used for cutting wood across the grain. | Architecture, Tools | |
| yokobori 横堀 | A lateral dry moat excavated crosswise in front of a mountain castle *yamajiro… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yokobue 横笛 | ✓ | A pictorial subject based on "The Flute," Yokobue, Chapter 37 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of… |
Art History, Painting |
| yokogi 横木 | Also hikigi 引木 Lit. "horizontal timber." Although the term yokogi can refer to any horizontal timber, it… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| yokohaiden 横拝殿 | ✓ | A long, rectangular worship hall at a Shinto shrine with entrances on the front and rear sides parallel to the ridge. The… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| Yokohama-e 横浜絵 | Also Yokohama 横浜 *ukiyo-e 浮世絵. Late ukiyo-e prints which depicted foreigners at the port… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yokome-ita 横目板 | Also called *oshibuchi 押縁. Narrow, thin battens placed horizontally over… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yokosama 横狭間 | A side loophole of the *yarisama 鑓狭間 type for pike and spears. Typically… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yokoshigezan 横繁桟 | ✓ | Closely spaced horizontal crosspieces commonly found on latticed doors *mairado… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yokoshino 横篠 | ✓ | 1 The horizontal line of a bamboo joint. |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yokoya 横矢 | Lit. "side arrow." |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yokoya hizumi 横矢邪 | Also written 横矢斜 and 横矢歪. Lit. "distorted rampart." A diagonal projection from a castle rampart. Used by defending troops to… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yokoya masugata 横矢桝形 | Also termed demasugata 出桝形. A defensive box-shaped courtyard *masugata… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yokoya sumi-otoshi 横矢角落 | ✓ | Also written 横矢隅落. A diagonally cut-away corner of a castle tower, used to launch side attacks *… |
Architecture, Castles |
| yokoza 横座 | 1 The seat of the principal and most honored guest sonsha 尊者 at formal banquets in the shinden… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| yokozan 横桟 | ✓ | Also called nakazan 中桟. A generic term for the parallel crosspieces used to frame doors, windows, and other… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yokozando 横桟戸 | ✓ | A timber door frame into which horizontal boards are set. The seams tsugime 継目 are hidden by crosspieces nailed in… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yokurō 翼廊 | ✓ | Lit. "wing corridors." A corridor that extends outward from the side or rear of a building. Examples: Byōdōin *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| Yōmeimon 陽明門 | ✓ | Lit. "sun bright gate." |
Architecture, Gates |
| yomezuka 嫁束 | Also called *kirizuka 切束, komitatara 込たたら. A short strut… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yomihon 読本 | Lit. "reading books." An Edo period woodblock printed novel prevalent from the mid to late Edo period that focused on… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Yomogiu 蓬生 | ✓ | A pictorial subject based on "The Wormwood Patch" Yomogiu, Chapter 15 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The… |
Art History, Painting |
| yonkyoku byōbu 四曲屏風 | Also yomaiori byōbu 四枚折屏風. A folding screen with four panels. Before the 12th or 13th century, this type of screen… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yonmaihozo 四枚ほぞ | ✓ | The four tenons cut into the crosscut of a beam. Quadruple tenons. The same principle is used in making double tenons *… | Architecture, Joints |
| yōraku 瓔珞 | 1 A string of beads or lacework used to decorate Buddhist statues and objects. Often found on Bodhisattva… |
Art History, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorations | |
| yorikimado 与力窓 | ✓ | 1 A rectangular window used in exterior walls, fitted with thick horizontal timber bars *… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings |
| yorimasa 頼政 | A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a 12th-century warrior-poet of the Seiwa Genji… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| yoritsuki 寄付 | Also written 寄附. |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses | |
| yoroboshi 弱法師 | Priest with faltering step. A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a blind young boy… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| yoroido 鎧戸 | Also called gararido がらり戸. The horizontal, louver boards yoroi-ita 鎧板 of a door that run parallel to each… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Yōryū Kannon 楊柳観音 | Also called Yakuō Kannon 薬王観音. Lit. "Willow Kannon" or "*Kannon 観音 with a willow branch… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| yose-ari hikidokko 寄蟻引独鈷 | A right angle joint used to attach a horizontal member to a pillar. It combines a type of dovetail joint *… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| yose-ari 寄蟻 | Also called okuri-ari 送蟻. A right angle joint *shiguchi 仕口 used to… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| yose-ishijiki 寄石敷 | Stone paving in which various sizes of cut and natural stones are arranged in unique patterns. Different sizes of regular… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| yosegi 寄木 | 1 The upper horizontal timber yosegi 寄木, in a transom, called *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yosejikii 寄敷居 | ✓ | Also called *tatamiyose 畳寄, or abbreviated to yose 寄. A horizontal timber level with… | Architecture, General Terms |
| yosekake 寄掛 | A board fence erected to protect the exterior plastered walls of a storehouse *dozō… |
Architecture, Storehouses | |
| yosekakebashira 寄掛柱 | A post set against a castle's sloping stone wall, at the same angle of incline, under the watch tower gate *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yoseki-zukuri 寄木造 | Also read yosegi zukuri. Formerly called kiyose zukuri 木寄造 or yoseai zukuri 寄合造. Antomym of *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| yosemune yane 寄棟屋根 | ✓ | Also abbreviated to yosemune 寄棟, also called yotsuyane 四つ屋根. A hipped roof. A roof that descends from the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yosemune-zukuri 寄棟造 | Also called *shia 四阿 in the Nara period. Also komune-zukuri 小棟造, … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yoshido 葭戸 | A sliding door or screen filled with reeds yoshi 葭 or ashi 葦, sometimes called match stick blinds, to admit summer… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| yoshigaki 葭垣 | Also ashigaki 葦垣. Also called yoshizubei 葭簀塀 or yoshizugaki 葭簀垣. A fence made of ditch reed … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Yoshino jidai 吉野時代 | The Yoshino period. A seldom-used, rather old-fashioned term for the Southern and Northern Courts period *… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| Yoshino 吉野 | An area in Mt. Ōmine 大峰, Nara, most famous for cherry blossoms. Important not only as a place of great scenic beauty, but… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Yoshino mandara 吉野曼茶羅 | Devotional paintings of the deities and landscape of Mt. *Yoshino 吉野. Yoshino… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| Yoshitsune 義経 | The tragic warrior Minamoto no Yoshitsune 源義経 (1159-89), whose many exploits both real and legendary are recounted in… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Yoshiwara 吉原 | The licensed pleasure and prostitution quarter of Edo. First established in 1617 near Nihonbashi 日本橋 by Shōji Jin'emon… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yotesaki tokyō 四手先斗きょう | A 4-stepped bracket complex found mainly on the upper part of a *tahōtō 多宝塔.… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yotsudate 四つ建て | Also *yoritsuki 寄付. A structural system found in farmhouses, nōka 農家, of the Edo… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| yotsumegaki 四目垣 | ✓ | Lit. "four-eyed fence." A generic name for a bamboo lattice fence. The poetic name derives from the quadrant of lozenge… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| yotsutome 四留 | Also pronounced yotsudome. An angled joint *shiguchi 仕口, composed of… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| yotsuwaribishi 四割菱 | ✓ | Also waribishi 割菱, takedabishi 武田菱. A decorative pattern that consists of a diamond shape divided into four smaller… | Art History, Painting |
| Yotsuya kaidan 四谷怪談 | A pictorial subject in *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 taken from the popular *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yotsuya maruta 四谷丸太 | Also called yotsuya migaki maruta 四谷磨き丸太 or migaki maruta 磨き丸太. A cedar log stripped of its bark and then… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yu-engata 油煙形 | ✓ | Also kōmorigata 蝙蝠形. A decorative pattern similar to the shapes found on a foliate-panel, shape *… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| yugamibashira 歪柱 | Also called *magaribashira 曲柱. Lit. "crooked or bent post." Posts that… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| Yūgao 夕顔 | ✓ | A pictorial subject taken from "Evening Faces" Yūgao, Chapter 4 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of… |
Art History, Painting |
| yūgen 幽玄 | Lit. "profound mystery." A multivalent and influential medieval aesthetic ideal expressing darkness, depth, mystery,… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| yūgeza 遊戯坐 | ✓ | Also read yūgiza (Sk: lalitasana). A seated position for a Buddhist image, usually a bodhisattva *… |
Art History, Sculpture |
| Yūgiri 夕霧 | ✓ | A pictorial subject taken from the "Evening Mist" Yuugiri, Chapter 39 of Genji monogarari 源氏物語 (The… |
Art History, Painting |
| yūgiridana 夕霧棚 | An arrangement of three staggered shelves in the upper half of the recess *tokowaki… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| yugitō 瑜祇塔 | Lit. "jewel, prayer, pagoda." |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Yuima 維摩 | Sk: Vimalakirti (pure reputation); Ch: Weimo. Indian Buddhist layman (Ch: jushi, Jp: koji 居士) famous for… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| yūitsu shinmei zukuri 唯一神明造 | Lit. "the unique shinmei style." A style of Shinto Shrine architecture characterized by the main sanctuaries *… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| yuiwata gegyo 結綿懸魚 | ✓ | A type of gable pendant *gegyo 懸魚, decorated with a sculpture resembling a floss… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| yuiwata 結綿 | ✓ | Architecture, Decorations | |
| yuiwatagashira 結綿頭 | Also gyakurengashira 逆蓮頭. A type of carved decoration found on the tops of newel posts *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| yūjo-e 遊女絵 | Art History, Painting | ||
| yūjo hyōbanki 遊女評判記 | An Edo period "Who's Who" of prostitutes in the pleasure districts. The yūjo hyōbanki was one of two major… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yūjoya 遊女屋 | The house of a procurer in the pleasure districts *yūkaku 遊廓 of Edo period… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| yukachigai 床違 | Floors that have different levels. For example, the floor of the alcove *tokonoma… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yukadaka 床高 | The distance from the top surface of a floor to the ground below. The term can also refer to the height of a building's… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yūkaku 遊廓 | Also written 遊郭. The pleasure district of the early modern Japanese city. The earliest developed example is said to have… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| yukaura 床裏 | The space made by the joists *neda 根太, between the flooring of a second story and… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yukazuka 床束 | Short struts placed on base stones beneath a floor to support the sleepers *ōbiki… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yūki ganryō 有機顔料 | Organic pigment. An insoluble paint material *ganryō 顔料 made from animal… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yukidomariguruwa 行留郭 | A cul-de-sac compound. A long and narrow castle compound with only one gateway entrance which turns into a blind alley.… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yukidome 雪止め | Lit. "a snow stop." |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| yukimi dōrō 雪見灯籠 | An unusual type of lantern. Like the *oribe dōrō 織部灯籠, its form is… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| yukimi shōji 雪見障子 | Also called *agesage shōji 上下障子 (up and down shōji). Lit. "snow… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Yume no ukihashi 夢浮橋 | ✓ | A pictorial subject taken from "The Floating Bridge of Dreams" Yume no ukihashi, Chapter 54 of Genji monogatari… |
Art History, Painting |
| Yumedono 夢殿 | Lit. "Hall of Dreams." A large octagonal hall *hakkakudō 八角堂, in the… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| yumi ranma 弓欄間 | ✓ | Also called namiranma 波欄間 (wave-patterned slats), takewaki ranma 立涌欄間 (vertical billow-patterned slats in… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yumiharizuki 弓張月 | Lit. "Crescent Moon;" loaded or pulled bow (shaped) moon. A pictorial subject in *ukiyo-e… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yumimayu 弓眉 | ✓ | A type of carved molding found on the lower edges of rainbow beams *kōryō … |
Architecture, Decorations |
| Yuminagashi 弓流し | Lit. "drifting bow." A pictorial subject depicting an incident at the Battle at Yashima *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yumiyaeda 弓矢枝 | Lit. "bow and arrow branches." The arrangement of a tree trunk and branches in which one branch grows up from the trunk then… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| yuna 湯女 | A low class of prostitutes during the Genna 元和 and Kan'ei 寛永 eras (1615-44). Typically, after meeting customers by washing… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yuniwa 斎庭 | Also *saijō 斎場. A place to perform purification rituals and to worship the… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| yuoke-ishi 湯桶石 | Also called yutōseki, katakuchi-ishi 片口石, yuage-ishi 湯揚げ石, and oke-ishi 桶石. Lit. "warm… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| yūraku zu 遊楽図 | Lit. "depictions of amusements." A major category of genre painting *fūzokuga… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yūri odaruki 遊離尾垂木 | ✓ | Separated tail rafters supported by fulcrums which in turn support long purlins at their mid point and at each end. They are… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yūsoku mon'yō 有職文様 | Traditional design motifs, used either in single units or repeated to create patterns, based on designs from Heian courtly… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yuta-zukuri 雪打造 | Also written 雨打造. A style of architecture that employs pent roof. A common 13th-19th century expression for *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yūyaku 釉薬 | Also yū 釉 or uwagusuri. Glaze. In the heat of firing, clay particles vitrify to form a glass matter… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| yūyakugawara 釉薬瓦 | A generic term for glazed roof or wall tiles. |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| yūzen-zome 友禅染 | Yūzen style dyeing. A form of paste-resist dyeing with beautiful colors and pictorial designs named after the Kyoto… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| Yūzū Nenbutsu engi 融通念仏縁起 | The History and Benefits of the Yūzū Nenbutsu engi. A handscroll theme recounting the early history of the Yūzū… |
Art History, Painting | |
| -zukuri 造 | A suffix meaning style or type frequently used in Japanese architectural history. |
Architecture, General Terms |
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