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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.

1 A tassel, tuft, fringe, cluster, or bunch.

2 Silk is for the elite and rough fabric for…

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).

1 A semi…

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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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