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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
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
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

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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