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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
ameyū 飴釉

A variation of *tenmokuyū 天目釉. A yellow-brown or liver-brown glaze…

Art History, Crafts
awataguchiyaki 粟田口焼

Awataguchi 粟田口 kiln. Also called awatayaki 粟田焼. A ceramic ware that was made in Awataguchi, at the foot of…

Art History, Crafts
aya 綾

A figured or diagonally-woven twill fabric.

1 The twill form, ayasoshiki 綾組織 or pattern of…

Art History, Crafts
nanako 魚々子 ✓

Also written 魚子, 斜子. Lit. "fish-roe."
1 A pattern of small dots thought to resemble fish-roe, and…

Art History, Architecture, Gardens, Crafts
netsuke 根付

A miniature sculpture that is ties to a portable tiered container *inrō 印籠 worn…

Art History, Crafts
nishiki 錦

Brocade. A general term for a variety of flat multicolored, woven-pattern fabrics. Recently it suggests silk woven with an…

Art History, Crafts
noborigama 登窯

Bank or climbing kiln. Built on a slope, this efficient type of kiln originated in China and was introduced to Japan from…

Art History, Crafts
nōshōzoku 能装束

*Noh 能 costumes. Also called nō-ishō 能衣装. Cloth articles worn in Noh…

Art History, Crafts

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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