| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| hakamagoshi 袴腰 | ✓ | 1 A trapezoidal form created on top of the posts that frame the host's entrance *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses, Structures, Buildings |
| hakamazuri-ishi 袴ずり石 | Lit. hakama 袴 brushing stone. A name for the front stone in a stone grouping arranged around a low basin *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hakarihijiki 秤肘木 | ✓ | A single bracket arm *hijiki 肘木, which is set into a large bearing block *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hake 刷毛 | A wide, multi-purpose brush made of animal hair attached to a wooden handle. Hake range in size from 3 cm to 18 cm… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hakkaku butsuden 八角仏殿 | An octagonal hall in a Buddhist temple. One or more Buddhist deities are enshrined within. The record Shizaichō… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hakkaku enden 八角円殿 | An octagonal hall. Temple records owned by Hōryūji 法隆寺 and Gangōji 元興寺 mention the existence of a hakkaku enden as… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hakkaku endō 八角円堂 | Lit. eight-sided circular. An octagonal circular hall *hakkakudō 八角堂,… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hakkakudō 八角堂 | ✓ | Also called *hakkaku endō 八角円堂. An octagonal hall. There are six… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hakkakuotoshi-no-kado 八角落の角 | ✓ | Also yatsunaka-no-korobi 八中の転. The method used to determine the incline of the main posts of a *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hakkakutō 八角塔 | ✓ | An octagonal pagoda of which there is only one in Japan. Although a plan to erect an octagonal pagoda existed at Saidaiji… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hakkei 八景 | Lit. eight views. Eight scenic spots from one geographic area specifically chosen to be treated in verse or pictures. The… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Hakkenden 八犬伝 | Lit. biographies of eight dogs. A pictorial subjectin *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 taken from… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hakkyakumon 八脚門 | ✓ | Also read yatsuashimon. Also called sangenikkomon 三間一戸門 or sangen sankomon 三間三戸門 depending upon… |
Architecture, Gates |
| hakobutsu 箱仏 | A Buddhist image contained in a box-shaped miniature shrine. Two symmetrical rectangular wings flank a main image, carved in… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hakogata jōgi 箱型定規 | Box-shaped measuring tool used when inking and marking off a pillar in order to fit the horizontal beams surrounding a… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| hakokaidan 箱階段 | ✓ | Also referred to as hakodan 箱段 and hakohashigo 箱梯子. A combined stairway and storage chest, common in town… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| hakokanagu 箱金具 | Also hakokanamono 箱金物, *makikanagu 巻金具, makikanamono 巻金物. U-strap, strap, stirrup.… | Architecture, Decorations | |
| hakomune 箱棟 | A prominent box-like ridge framed in timber astride the apex of a roof. In section it resembles a miniature building with a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hakozaki torii 筥崎鳥居 | Also called Hakozaki Hachimangū 筥崎八幡宮, Hakozaki no Miya 筥崎宮 or Hizen torii 肥前鳥居. A stone pillar type of gate characterized… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| haku 箔 | Lit. foil or leaf. Gold, silver, copper, tin, or brass pounded into a thin flat sheet and used for the decoration of art… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Haku Ga Shō Shiki 伯牙鍾子期 | Ch: Bo Ya Zhong Ziqi. A pictorial theme of friendship in Chinese painting. When the Zhou dynasty musician Bo Ya (Jp: … |
Art History, Painting | |
| Haku Raku soba 伯楽粗馬 | Lit. Be Le assessing a horse. A Chinese painting subject of the 4th century horse trainer named Be Le (Jp: Haku Raku… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Haku Rakuten 白楽天 | Ch: Bai Letian (772-846). A Chinese poet of the mid-Tang dynasty, depicted in a tradition of imaginary portrait paintings.… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hakubyō 白描 | Although the term literally means white drawing, hakubyō 白描 is a technique of painting that relies primarily on the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hakudo 白土 | Kaolin. Also todo とど. A fine soft white clay produced by the decomposition of other clays feldspar. Hakudo… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hakuga 帛画 | Painting on silk. In ancient China, before paper-making was developed, silk or haku (also called so 繪) was… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Hakuhō jidai 白鳳時代 | The Hakuhō period (645-710) referred to in recent scholarship as the Late Asuka period, Asuka jidai kōki 飛鳥時代後期.… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| Hakui Shukusei 伯夷叔斉 | Ch: Boyi Shuqi. Brothers who lived during the late Shang - early Zhou dynasties, who were praised by Confucius for declining… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hakuoshi 箔押 | Also hakuire 箔入れ, hakuoki 箔置き. Making a design by stitching gold, silver, or colored foil with glue onto… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Hakusan mandara 白山曼荼羅 | Devotional paintings of the cult of Hakusan 白山 (white mountains), a group of mountains that border Gifu, Fukui,… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| hakushi 薄師 | An artist who applies gold or silver leaf *shippaku 漆箔 to the surface of a… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Hamagurimon 蛤門 | ✓ | Lit. clam gate. One of the four gates on the westside of the outer enclosure of Kyoto Gosho 京都御所. Altogether there were nine… |
Architecture, Gates |
| hamamatsu-zu 浜松図 | Paintings of a flat, undulatory sandy beach or sand spit with windswept pines, a traditional theme of *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hamayuka 浜床 | Also called *chōdai 帳台 in the Heian period.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| hame-ishi 羽目石 | Also written 嵌石. A stone panel. A component of the formal style podium *danjōzumi… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hame-ita 羽目板 | Also written 嵌板. A wooden panel or board used as wall covering. It may be horizontally or vertically set. The boards may… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hamegi 嵌め木 | A plug used in *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 woodblock printmaking for making corrections or… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hamontai 波文帯 | Also called a zigzag motif *inazumamon 稲妻文 or a saw tooth pattern *… | Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| han-nageshi 半長押 | ✓ | Lit. half non-penetrating horizontal beam. A non-penetrating beam which is 3/5 the diameter of a building 's main pillar… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| han-noshigawara 半熨斗瓦 | Rectangular ridge tiles with half the width of an ordinary ridge tile *noshigawara… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| Han Rō 潘閬 | Ch: Pan Lang. Chinese Zhou dynasty recluse, originally a retainer of King Mu (Ch: Muwang; Jp: Bokuō 穆王, ca. 1001-972 BC).… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hana-akarimado 花明窓 | Also kameimado, *oribemado 織部窓, *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hana 鼻 | ✓ | Lit. nose. Also called hanasaki 鼻先. The end or tip of a structural member such as a beam, rafter end, ridge end,… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| Hana no en 花宴 | ✓ | Pictorial Subject matter of *yamato-e やまと絵 painting. "The… |
Art History, Painting |
| hanabishi mon'yō 花菱文様 | ✓ | Also hanabishimon 花菱文. Decorative patterns *mon'yō 文様, or… |
Art History, Painting |
| Hanachirusato 花散里 | ✓ | A pictorial subject based on Chapter 11 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of Genji), "The Orange Blossoms" … |
Art History, Painting |
| hanagarami 鼻絡 | A relatively small tie beam placed slightly inside and under the eave ends on a board roof. It not only ties the boards… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| hanagawara 花瓦 | Also hashigawara 端瓦. Lit. flower tile. An edge or border tile originally, the word came to replace the more… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| hanaguri 鼻繰 | A generic name for moldings *kurigata 繰形, used on the edge of bracket arms *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| hanahijiki 花肘木 | ✓ | Lit. flower bracket arm. A decorative bracket arm *hijiki 肘木 that appeared in… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hanahiragawara 端平瓦 | A broad, concave end tile that alternates with an eave end semi-circular tile surmounted with a circular pendant *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| hanaikada 花筏 | Lit. flower raft. A decorative, floral pattern popular in the Momoyama period. The design is said to be derived from a… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| hanaire 花入 | A container for displaying flowers, or a flower vase. Generally, there are three types found in tea ceremony rooms *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hanakakushi-ita 鼻隠板 | ✓ | A fascia board. A board nailed flat against the rafter ends, characteristic of the daibutsu style *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hanakobu akujō 鼻瘤悪尉 | Bumpynosed fierce old man. A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hanakugi 花釘 | ✓ | A nail used to hang a flower vase in a tea ceremonyroom *chashitsu 茶室. Some… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| hanakuidorimon 花喰鳥文 | A pattern that features flying birds grasping flowers or small branches in their beaks. The design may feature phoenixes,… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hanakumiko 花組子 | Also hanako 花子. Decorative petal-shaped muntins found on doors *shōji… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| hanamarugawara 端丸瓦 | An old name for semi circular eave end tiles *nokimarugawara 軒丸瓦. Also… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| hanamarunoko 鼻丸鋸 | Also known as anahikinoko 穴挽鋸. A round-nose roughing saw. The name is derived from the shape of the top of the… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| hanamashi 鼻増 | Also sorimashi 反増; terimashi 照増. The gradual increase in height toward the ends of rafters *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hanamichi 花道 | Lit.flower path. A long elevated walkway on the left side of a *kabuki… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hanamoya 鼻母屋 | Pole plates. Horizontal members that are positioned on the outer end of raking beams *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hanaranma 花欄間 | Also called hanasama ranma 花狭間欄間 or *hanazama 花狭間. A… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| hanashibon 噺本 | Also written 咄本 or 話本. Lit. storybooks. Collections of humorous short stories and anecdotes popular during the Edo period.… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hanasogawara はなそ瓦 | ✓ | A semi-circular convex tile with a pendant *gatō 瓦当, attached to… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| hanazama 花狭間 | ✓ | Also hanasama.
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Architecture, Decorations |
| hanbashira 半柱 | Lit. half column. Also katabutabashira 片蓋柱 (half-covered pillar). The half visible column on the exterior or… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hanchiku 版築 | Also read banchiku. A method of making the core of a podium *danjōzumi… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Handaza 吐田座 | One of the painting guilds or studios za 座 in the atelier *nanto-edokoro… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hanebashi 桔橋 | Also written 刎橋. A draw bridge. A bridge that has a metal hinge attached to the castle side and a rope attached to the the… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hanedashi nikai はね出し二階 | ✓ | A jettied upper floor projecting beyond the plane of the line of posts defining the limit of the lower part of a town house… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| hanegi 桔木 | A cantilever. A heavy, rough member used in a hidden roof *noyane … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hanegimakura 桔木枕 | Lit. a cantilever pillow. A transverse beam supported by the eave purlin *dashigeta… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hanegiosae 桔木押 | A beam running at a right angle to the cantilevers *hanegi 桔木, used in a hidden… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hangan 半眼 | Half-open eyes. The eyes of the Buddha, narrowed when he concentrates in meditation. |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hangata 判型 | The standard size of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 prints. Print sizes are given in the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hangi 版木 | Also called ita 板. The wood used for the curved blocks which make woodblock prints *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hanji-e 判じ絵 | A print based on a rebus. A collection of images that might suggest a place name, the name of a courtesan, or a phrase from… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hanjōroku 半丈六 | Lit. half *jōroku 丈六. A measure of height for a Buddhist statue. Eight … |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hanka fuza 半跏趺坐 | Also hanka 半跏, hankaza 半跏坐, hanfuza 半趺坐, daibosatsuza 大菩薩坐, and bosatsuza 菩薩坐.… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hankirizuma-zukuri 半切妻造 | ✓ | Also called hakamagoshi yane 袴腰屋根, or kabutoyane 兜屋根. A style of roof similar to the hipped roof *… |
General Terms, Architecture |
| hankōran 半高欄 | A simple style of balustrade placed around a low, step-like veranda *hamayuka… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hanmasugata 半桝形 | A type of protective box-shaped enclosure *masugata 桝形, found at a castle… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hanme 半目 | Also called hankirime 半切目. Wale next to the binding of a straw mat *tatami… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hanmekiri 半目切 | Also called *hanme 半目; kogirime 小切目. The partially exposed wale next to… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hannya 般若 | A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a female serpent-demon filled… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Hannya bosatsu 般若菩薩 | In full Hannya-haramitsu (or Hannya-haramitta) bosatsu 般若波羅蜜(般若波羅蜜多)菩薩. A bodhisattva *… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| hanpi 半臂 | Lit. half arm. A sleeveless short undergarment for aristocratic men. From the Nara through the early Heian periods, … |
Art History, Crafts | |
| hanpon 版本 | Also written 板本.
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Art History, Painting | |
| hansetsu 半切 | Also written 半折 and 半截. A size of paper obtained when full-size paper *zenshi… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hanshi 半紙 | Also written 判紙. A small-sized paper, approximately 25 cm by 35 cm. Being a convenient size for a variety of documents, … |
Art History, Painting | |
| hanshige daruki 半繁垂木 | The distance between two rafters of this type is equal to the sum of the height of a rafter plus the width of its bottom… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hanshita 版下 | Abbreviation of hanshita-e 版下絵. The final master drawing or design which was used by an artist or his workshop to… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hanshōji 半障子 | A sliding screen made of a light wooden frame covered with translucent paper. It is about 1 m-1.3 m high. 1.3 m hanshōji… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hanshōjibusuma 半障子襖 | Also called han-akarishōji 半明障子. A pair of sliding screens with a lattice frame covered with translucent paper *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hara 腹 | Lit. belly. The concave underside, of a curved beam, for example, a curved transverse beam *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| haraidono 祓殿 | Lit. purification hall. Also read haraedono. Also haraidokoro 祓所. A hall where Shinto priests or lay… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| harakugi 腹釘 | Nails driven into the sides of a board that is parallel to its edges in order to stabilize it. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hari 梁 | ✓ | A transverse or cross beam positioned at a right angle to a roof ridge. It stretches the width of a building to receive the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
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