| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| furo 風炉 | ✓ | A portable brazier used in the spring and summer seasons when the hearth or fire-box, *ro… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| furoku 不陸 | Lit. not horizontal. A surface which is not flat or horizontal to the ground. | Architecture, General Terms | |
| furosaki byōbu 風炉先屏風 | Sometimes abbreviated to furosaki 風炉先. A partition used in a tea ceremony room *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| furosakimado 風炉先窓 | Lit. window in front of stove. A window opened in the wall by the host's mat, *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| fūryū 風流 | Lit. refined taste. An aesthetic ideal implying traditional elegance, chic stylishness, creative ingenuity, and sometimes… |
Art History, Painting | |
| fūryūjin-zu 風流陣図 | Ch: Fengliuzhentu. Lit. Depictions of Elegant Battles. A Chinese painting subject included among the Pictures of… |
Art History, Painting | |
| fusa 総 | Also written 房. |
Architecture, Accessories | |
| fusahikite 総引手 | Tassels attached to the pull, *hikite 引手, of an opaque sliding screen, *… |
Architecture, Accessories | |
| fusakumen 布作面 | Lit. cloth masks. Also sakumen 作面. Eighth-century burlap (ramie) pieces with a human face sketched in the… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| fuse-zu 伏図 | A framing plan showing the structural arrangement and details of various parts of a building including the floor, ceiling,… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| fusegawara 伏瓦 | Also called *ogawara 男瓦 (male tile). |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| fusen 布泉 | An abbreviation of fusen no chōzubachi 布泉の手水鉢. A type of water basin, *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| fūshiga 風刺画 | Lit. satirical pictures. Paintings and prints satirizing current events, world affairs, government, and politics. The… |
Art History, Painting | |
| fushikizō 節木増 | Knotted zō. A noh mask, *nōmen 能面, representing a mature young woman. A… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| fushin 普請 | Originally, the solicitation of great numbers of people to help construct Zen temple buildings. By the 14th century, … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| fushinchō 普請帳 | ✓ | The ledger or account books in which material and labor costs incurred during a construction project were recorded. … |
Architecture, General Terms |
| fushoku 腐蝕 | Wood rot. Wood rot can be either dry rot, kanshoku 乾蝕, or wet rot, shisshoku 湿蝕. Wet rot is particularly… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Fusō meigaden 扶桑名画伝 | Biography of Famous Painters in Japan, a comprehensive mid-19th-century biography of painters. Supplemented and… |
Art History, Painting, Document | |
| Fusō meikō gafu 扶桑名公画譜 | Primer on Master Painters of Japan, an early 18th-century biography of painters by Asai Fukyū 浅井不旧. Asai, a native… |
Art History, Painting, Document | |
| Fūsuidō 風水洞 | Ch: Fengshuidong. Lit. the wind and water caves. A grotto complex near Hangzhou 杭州 which was the subject of poems by Su… |
Art History, Painting | |
| fusuma 襖 | ✓ | An abbreviation for fusumashōji 襖障子, an opaque sliding screen, as distinguished from the translucent screen, *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| fusuma-e 襖絵 | Abbreviation of fusumashōji-e 襖障子絵. Paintings on sliding-door panels, *fusuma… |
Art History, Painting | |
| fusumagawara 伏間瓦 | Also written 衾瓦; also called *kanmurigawara 冠瓦 or *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| fūsuryō 副寺寮 | Also called fūsu 副寺. An administrative office often found in part of a Zen temple kitchen, *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| futaebei 二重塀 | Also called taikobei 太鼓塀 or drum wall. A double castle wall that consisted of two separate walls between which… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| fūtai 風帯 | A term used for one of the parts of the mounting of a hanging scroll, *kakemono… |
Art History, Painting | |
| futakoshi yane 二腰屋根 | A roof that has two different inclines between the ridge and eave ends. It changes its direction of flow without any… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| futamune-zukuri 二棟造り | Alternatively known as futatsuie 二つ家. A style of vernacular house, *minka… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| futamunerō 二棟廊 | A long, wide, double-bay corridor with an open ceiling, *keshō yaneura… |
Architecture, Buildings | |
| futanoki 二軒 | ✓ | A double row of rafters, called base rafters and flying rafters, that appears beneath the eaves of a roof. The base rafters… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| futaoki 蓋置 | ✓ | A stand, made of ceramic, bamboo, or metal, on which the lid of a tea ceremony kettle is placed. When the cover is placed on… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| futate hijiki 二手肘木 | A bracket arm that forms the second outward step of a two-stepped bracket complex. | Architecture, General Terms | |
| futatesakigumi 二手先組 | ✓ | Also called futatesaki tokyō 二手先斗きょう or futatesaki kumimono 二手先組物. A bracket complex composed of two steps… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| futatsudo tokyō 二(双)斗斗(きょう) | Also written 双斗斗きょう and pronounced the same way, or these characters can be read narabido tokyō or sōdo tokyō… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| fūtō-e 封筒絵 | Also shokanbukuro-e 書簡袋絵. The woodblock-printed pictures on folded paper covers which functioned as envelopes, … |
Art History, Painting | |
| fuza 趺坐 | Abbreviation of either the *kekka fuza 結跏趺坐 (full-lotus posture) or the *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| fūzokuga 風俗画 | Paintings with the daily activities and special pleasures of contemporary life as their subject matter. Equivalent to the… |
Art History, Painting |
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