| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| hizuka 樋束 | A type of strut found in *shinmei-zukuri 神明造. Several… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hizumiguruwa 邪郭 | Also written 斜郭. A diagonal section of wall forming part of a gateway barrier *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| Hō Koji 龐居士 | Ch: Pang Jushi. Lit. The Layman Pang. Regarded as an incarnation of Vimalakirti (Jp: *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hōbyō 宝瓶 | Also suibyō 瓶. A flower vase, found as an attribute *jimotsu 持物… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hōdate 方立 | Also written 傍立; also called hōdatebashira 方立柱; formerly *hashirayose… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hōdateguchi 方立口 | ✓ | Also hōtateguchi. An entrance to a tea ceremony room *chashitsu… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| hōgyō yane 宝形屋根 | ✓ | Lit. roof segments flowing down on four sides, also called shichū yane 四注屋根 shihōnagare 四方流. A hipped or… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hōgyō-zukuri 宝形造 | ✓ | Also written 方形造; sometimes called the four-part style shichū-zukuri 四注造, or the square style hōkei-zukuri… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hohitsu 補筆 | Repainting or supplementary brushwork. To add to, attempt to finish, or correct a painting or calligraphy by adding brush… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hōjō 方丈 | ✓ | The name given to the type of residence that had evolved by the end of the 14th century for the abbot, i.e., the head priest… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hōjō jitate 法帖仕立 | An accordion style book-binding *orihon 折本. So called because it is used for… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hōju 宝珠 | ✓ | 1 Also pronounced hōshu. A sacred gem. Usually a ball or tear-drop shape object that is sacred to… |
Architecture, General Terms, Art History, Sculpture |
| hōjugata kōhai 宝珠形光背 | A type of nimbus *zukō 頭光, or halo, found on a Buddhist image in the shape… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hōjumon 宝珠文 | Also hōshumon. A design of spherical jewels with slightly pointed tops, frequently with flames rising from the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hōkan Amida 宝冠阿弥陀 | Lit. *Amida 阿弥陀 with a Jeweled Crown. A typical representation of Buddha *… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| hōkan 宝冠 | Also tenkan 天冠. A crown on a Buddhist sculpture. Usually made in wood or bronze openwork *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hōkanbutsu 宝冠仏 | A statue of Buddha wearing a crown ornamented with precious stones. This tradition originated in India, first with crowned… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hōkei 宝髻 | Also hōkei 寶髻. The hair of a sculpted figure tied up on top of the head in a topknot. Found on bodhisattva *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hōkeiyakata 方形館 | Lit. Square-shape mansion. A medieval fortified military-class mansion that is surrounded by a square-shaped, or more… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| Hokekyō hensō 法華経変相 | Drawings or paintings, zu 図 depicting the doctrine and stories of the Lotus Sutra Hokekyō 法華経,… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| hokkai jōin 法界定印 | Lit. Dharma-realm meditation mudra. Hokkai 法界 is the Dharma-realm, (Sk: dharmadhatu), and jōin is an… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Hokke mandara 法華曼荼羅 | Lit. Lotus Mandala. Also Hokekyō mandara 法華経曼荼羅 (mandala depiction of the Lotus Sutra), Hokekyō hōtō mandara… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| hokkedō 法華堂 | ✓ | Also called hokke sanmaidō 法華三昧堂.
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Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hōko 宝庫 | Also hōzō 宝蔵, shinko 神庫, itakura 板倉, banzō 板蔵, sazō 叉蔵. A storehouse for… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| hokogi 架木 | The topmost member of a three-railed balustrade *kōran 高欄, usually round or… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Hōkokusai 豊国祭 | Lit. Hōkoku festival. The special celebration on the seventh anniversary of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's 豊臣秀吉 (1536-98) death, held… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Hokuendō 北円堂 | The largest extant octagonal Buddhist temple hall, dated 1210. It is located at Kōfukuji 興福寺 in Nara, and is placed on a… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hokushūga 北宗画 | Ch: beizonghua. The northern school of Chinese painting as opposed to the Southern school of painting *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hokusō sansuigashiki teien 北宋山水画式庭園 | Lit. gardens in the style of Northern Song landscape painting. A modern term that stresses the compositional similarities… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hokuto mandara 北斗曼荼羅 | A variety of mandala dedicated to specific deities *besson mandara 別尊曼荼羅… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| hōkyō 宝篋 | Sk: ratnapeta. Lit. a box for treasures. The treasures referred to are sutras. As a *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hōkyōintō 宝筺印塔 | ✓ | Lit. Hōkyōin pagoda. A type of pagoda (Sk: stupa) originally made as a repository for copies of the Hōkyōin… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hon-irakagawara 本甍瓦 | A general term for three basic tiles: irakadomoe 甍巴, a tile decorated with a comma shaped pattern *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| hon'ya 本屋 | Alsowritten 本家, or read omoya 主屋.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| hon'yamato 本大和 | An abbreviation of hon'yamatokaki 本大和掻. Also pronounced hon'yamatogaki. A type of decoration used on teahouses with an… | Architecture, Decorations | |
| honbashira 本柱 | ✓ | Also read omobashira; in the case of gates it may be called *monbashira… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| honbuki 本葺 | A roof made of wood and cooper sheets to resemble a traditional tiled roof *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Honchō gahō taiden 本朝画法大伝 | Authoritative Summary of the Rules of Japanese Painting by Tosa Mitsuoki 土佐光起 (1617-91). As part of Mitsuoki's attempt to… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Honchō gashi 本朝画史 | History of Painting in Japan, a late 17th century compendium of artists' biographies and the history of painting in Japan.… |
Art History, Painting, Document | |
| honden 本殿 | The sanctuary of a Shinto shrine, considered the most sacred shrine building because it contains the essence of the deity,… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| hondō 本堂 | ✓ | Lit. main hall. A Buddhist hall housing the principal images most revered by the particular sect of a temple. The use of the… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hondoko 本床 | ✓ | A formal alcove *tokonoma 床の間 in a large *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| hone 骨 | Lath. The narrow strips of wood, laid vertically and horizontally to form the core of the sliding track for opaque screens… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| honegumi 骨組 | Also called *jikubu 軸部. The skeletal framework of a building. This framework… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Hōnen 法然 | Commonly known as Hōnen Shōnin 法然上人 or St. Hōnen (1133-1212), founder of the Pure Land, Jōdo 浄土 sect in… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| hongatte 本勝手 | Also called migigatte 右勝手. The so-called normal arrangement for most tea ceremony rooms *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hongawarabuki 本瓦葺 | ✓ | A general term for a tile roof, especially one which is composed of relatively flat, broad, concave tiles *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| honji suijaku 本地垂迹 | Shinto/Buddhist syncretism. In its early phase this is called shinbutsu shūgō 神仏習合. The term honji suijaku… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| honjibutsu 本地仏 | The original Buddhist identity of a Shinto deity *kami 神. Sometime before the… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| honjin 本陣 | ✓ | 1 The camp or field headquarters of a general from the late Heian period to the early Edo period. This… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| honjō 本城 | 1 The main or central fortification withina single castle. It is similar to *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| honjō-zu 本生図 | Lit. Illustrations of original lives. The original lives; honjō 本生 or honshō, or former lives of the… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| honka dōrō 本歌灯籠 | Lanterns, usually found at shrines or temples, with sufficient aesthetic and historical fame to warrant copying by later… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| honkokubon 翻刻本 | Also written 飜刻本. A facsimile or reprint (often in modern typeface) of a manuscript or old book. A reprint of an already… |
Art History, Painting | |
| honmaru 本丸 | Lit. main circle. The principal compound in a castle complex which has more than one compound or ward. It is often, but not… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| honmikage 本御影 | Lit. true mikage 御影. A type of high quality granite, kakōgan 花崗岩 quarried in the Mikage region of the city… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| honmune-zukuri 本棟造 | ✓ | A style of vernacular house *minka 民家, found in Nagano Prefecture… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| honnikai 本二階 | Lit. true second floor. A full-height upper floor, complete with living and reception rooms *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| honpashiki emon 翻波式衣文 | A manner of representing drapery folds in Buddhist sculpture, in which high rounded curves regularly alternate with low… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| honzon 本尊 | The principal image (or group of images) of worship at a Buddhist temple or a single building within the temple complex. The… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| honzon hyōgu 本尊表具 | A type of mounting *hyōsō 表装 for a hanging scroll *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hōō 鳳凰 | 1 A phoenix. A mythical Chinese bird, thought to have been introduced to Japan in the Asuka period. The… |
Architecture, Painting, Decorations, Art History | |
| Hōōdō 鳳凰堂 | ✓ | Lit. Phoenix Hall. The Hōōdō is the central hall *Chūdō 中堂 of… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hōra 法螺 | Also read hora. Also written 宝螺. Also sometimes called ra 螺. Sk: dharmasankha. A conch shell used as a… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| horadoko 洞床 | Lit. cave alcove. A cave-like entrance to a tea ceremony room, partially enclosed by a side wall. The side wall is called *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| horageta 洞桁 | Also horaketa. The first two of a series of purlins that support hidden rafters *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| horaguchi 洞口 | Also horakuchi. An opening on the side wall of an alcove *tokonoma… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hōrai enzanseki 蓬莱遠山石 | Lit. Penglai distant mountain stone. A technique in which the stone representing Mt. Penglai *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hōrai gantō 蓬莱岩島 | Lit. Penglai rock island. The technique of representing Mt. Penglai *Hōraisan… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hōrai teien 蓬莱庭園 | Lit. Penglai garden. A general term for a garden focused thematically on Mt. Penglai *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hōrai yōshiki 蓬莱様式 | Lit. Penglai style. A type of garden in which there presentation of Mt. Penglai *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hōraibune 蓬莱舟 | ✓ | Also called a boat stone funa-ishi 舟石 or treasure-boat stone takarabune-ishi 宝舟石. Lit. Penglai boat. A… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| Hōraisan 蓬莱山 | 1 Lit. Mt. Penglai. Ch: Penglaishan. The most famous of the three Elysian mountain-isles believed to lie… |
Architecture, Art History, Painting | |
| hōraiseki 蓬莱石 | Lit. Penglai stone. A garden stone representing Mt. Penglai *Hōraisan 蓬莱山,… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hori 堀 | ✓ | A moat that completely or partially surrounds a castle, palace, or mansion. Moats are primarily for protection but may… |
Architecture, Castles |
| Horikawa youchi 堀川夜討 | Lit. night attack on the Horikawa Palace. A pictorial subject depicting one of the many events in the life of tragic hero… |
Art History, Painting | |
| horikiri 堀切 | A dry moat *karabori 空堀, dug to separate and hinder passage between two peaks… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| horimono 彫物 | 1 The skills, process, and work of carving in wood, bamboo, stone, metal, or other materials. It also… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| horinuri 彫塗 | A method of color application in *yamato-e やまと絵, whereby the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| horiuchimichi 堀内道 | A pathway that runs along the bottom of a dry moat *karabori 空堀. Dry moats… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| horō 歩廊 | A style of passageway or corridor on the outside of a temple, shrine, palace, or mansion. The passageway often connects two… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Hōrōkaku manadara 宝楼閣曼荼羅 | A specific type of mandala *besson mandara 別尊曼荼羅, based on the Daihō… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| hōryō 法量 | Measurements of a Buddhist statue and attachments. They include:
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Art History, Sculpture | |
| hōshagata kōhai 放射形光背 | Also sujikō 筋光, nukigokō 貫後光, and kasagokō 傘御光. A radial nimbus. A type of the… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hoshi mandara 星曼荼羅 |
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Art History, Iconography | |
| hōsho 奉書 | An abbreviation of hōshogami 奉書紙, hōsho paper. A type of *washi… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hōsō-e 疱瘡絵 | Also *aka-e 赤絵. A woodblock print colored only with shades of red. The color was… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hosoban 細判 | Lit. narrow format. A size of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 print. The term hosoban is… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hosodono 細殿 | Lit. long narrow hall.
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Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hōsōge 宝相華 | 1 Also read hossōge, an abbreviation of hōsōgemon 宝相華文. Lit. precious flower. Hōsōge… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Art History, Painting | |
| hōsōge karakusa 宝相華唐草 | 1 Abbreviation of hōsōge karakusamon 宝相華唐草文. A type of Chinese arabesque design *… |
Architecture, Decorations, Roofing Tiles | |
| Hosokawa Sansai Chasho 細川三斎茶書 | A book of explanations and regulations of tea ceremony in one volume, believed to be the teaching of Ichio Iori 一尾伊織 (1602-… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hosokuzai 補足材 | The new timber used to repair or restore a traditional wooden building. Sometimes an entire rotted member is replaced, and… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hosonoko 細鋸 | Also known as osaehikinoko 押挽鋸. A thin bladed crosscut saw used to make a plane (see *… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| hossai 髪際 | Also hassai 髪際. Lit. Hairline. The point where the hair meets the forehead on a sculpted figure. The hairline is… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Hossō rokuso 法相六祖 | Lit. Six Patriarchs of the Hossō sect. In Japan: Shin'ei 神叡 (d. 737), Genbō 玄昉 (d. 746), Zenshu 善珠 (723-97), Gyōga 行賀(729-… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| hossu 払子 | Also 白払. A kind of brush, used to drive away insects during meditation. The hossu originated in ancient India, and… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Hotaru 蛍 | ✓ | A pictorial subject taken from "Fireflies" Hotaru, Chapter 25 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of… |
Art History, Painting |
| Hotei 布袋 | ✓ | Ch: Budai. A semi-legendary, itinerant 10th-century Buddhist monk who became a popular subject in Chinese and Japanese ink… |
Art History, Iconography |
| hōtō 宝塔 | 1 Lit. treasure pagoda. A generic name for a pagoda (Sk: stupa) of a type associated with the Buddhist… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
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