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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
Zenshūyō kōran 禅宗様高欄 ✓

Also called Karayō kōran 唐様高欄. A railing or balustrade *kōran 高欄 with…

Architecture, General Terms
Zenshūyō tokyō 禅宗様斗きょう ✓

Also called Karayō tokyō 唐様斗きょう. A Zen style bracket complex. The bracket arms *…

Architecture, General Terms
zentei 前庭

Lit. "front garden." A general term referring to the garden in front of a building. In contrast to the main garden which is…

Architecture, Gardens
zetsu 舌 ✓

Lit. "tongue." A thin ornamental molding *kurigata 繰形, carved on the bottom…

Architecture, General Terms
zō-onna 増女

A Noh mask *nōmen 能面, representing a young angel, goddess or enlightened woman.…

Art History, Sculpture
Zō Tōdaiji Zōbussho 造東大寺造仏所

Also Tōdaiji Zōbussho 東大寺造仏所. A workshop which made statues for Tōdaiji 東大寺 in Nara. In 748, the government set up a…

Art History, Sculpture
zōbana 象鼻 ✓

Also read zōhana. A beam projection or nosing *kibana 木鼻, molded or…

Architecture, Decorations
zōbussho 造仏所

Government-run workshops making Buddhist statues during the Nara period. Post-9th-century independent and temple-run…

Art History, Sculpture
Zōchōten 増長天

Sk: Virudhaka. A fierce-looking guardian deity *funnusō 忿怒相, believed to…

Art History, Iconography
zōgan 象嵌

Inlay. It is also written 象眼 (elephant eye). A decoration technique in which the surface of such materials as metal, pottery…

Art History, Crafts
zōkinzuri 雑巾摺 ✓

Also called hōkizuri 掃摺 or zōkindome 雑巾留. A long thin finishing board, similar to a base board, that is…

Architecture, General Terms
zokutaizō 俗体像

A portrait of a lay person in formal secular dress. This contrasts with the more numerous portraits of Buddhist priests…

Art History, Sculpture
zōmen 蔵面

Offertory mask. Cloth or paper masks used in *bugaku 舞楽 in the pieces *…

Art History, Sculpture
zōnai nōnyūhin 像内納入品

Also nōnyūhin 納入品, tainai nōnyūhin 胎内納入品, tainai nōnyūbutsu 胎内納入物. Objects found in the…

Art History, Sculpture
zōsaku 雑作

Also witten 造作.
All non-permanent parts of a Japanese building in contrast to those parts that are permanent and…

Architecture, General Terms
zōshu 像主

A patron. A person who requests the building of a Buddhist temple or work of art.

Art History, Sculpture
zōzōki 造像記

Also zōzōki daiki 造像題記, zōzōmei 造象銘. A record that keeps track of the completion and repair dates of a…

Art History, Sculpture
zuan 図案

A rough sketch of a building plan including, floor plans, elevations, the placement of doors and windows, etc.

Architecture, General Terms
zuijinmon 随神門

Middle gates *chūmon 中門 with statues of Zuijin 随神, shrine guards…

Architecture, Gates
zuizō 瑞像

A name given to a sandalwood statue of Shaka Nyorai 釈迦如来 (in the same style as the figure in Seiryōji 清涼寺, Kyoto). See *…

Art History, Sculpture
zukō 頭光

Lit. head light. A nimbus or halo that encircles the head of an image of a Buddhist deity. In the case of sculpture it is…

Art History, Sculpture
zumi 棠梨

A yellow pigment *ganryō 顔料, made from the bark of the deciduous…

Art History, Painting
zushi 厨子

1 A miniature shrine in which Buddhist images or rolls of sutras kyō 経 are kept. Reliquary…

Architecture, General Terms
zushi 辻子

1 Also written 図子, 途子. A crossroads or intersection of two roads. See *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
zushidana 厨子棚

Miniature shrine shelf. A cabinet shrine *zushi 厨子, used to store the writing…

Art History, Crafts
zuzō 図像

Iconographic sketches of Buddhist images done in simple ink drawing (see *hakubyō…

Art History, Painting
zuzōshō 図像抄

Selected Iconography, a late Heian compendium on Buddhist iconography. Also called Jikkanshō 十巻抄 (…

Art History, Painting

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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