| 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. |
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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