| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| butsudan-no-ma 仏壇の間 | ✓ | A room in traditional vernacular houses *minka 民家, in parts of Hyōgo Prefecture… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| butsuden 仏殿 | ✓ | Also *daiyū hōden 大雄宝殿. The main hall of a Zen temple. Butsuden… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| butsuden-zu 仏伝図 | Lit. illustrated biographies of the Buddha. Artistic representations, usually painted or in low-relief sculpture, of the… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| butsudō 仏堂 | Also called *butsuden 仏殿; bukkaku 仏閣, *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| butsugan 仏龕 | Also gan 龕. A niche carved out of a wall for the purpose of installing a Buddhist image, or a miniature Buddhist… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Butsugen butsumo 仏眼仏母 | Also Butsugenson 仏眼尊 (Venerable Buddha-Eye). Lit. Buddha-Eye, or Mother of the Buddha. Sk: Buddhalocanal Locana. An Esoteric… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| Butsugen mandara 仏眼曼荼羅 | A variety of *besson mandara 別尊曼荼羅 (a mandala concerning a single deity… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| butsuma 仏間 | A room for Buddhist images (either two- or three-dimensional images) or, especially in a residence, an altar or tabernacle… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures, Folk Dwellings | |
| butsumon 仏門 | Architecture, Gates | ||
| Butsunichian kōmotsu mokuroku 仏日庵公物目録 | Catalog of objects in Butsunichian, the 14th-century inventory of artistic and other properties of Butsunichian 仏日庵… |
Art History, Painting, Document | |
| butsuzō 仏像 | A general term that refers to all images of the Buddha used as objects of worship, although most commonly used to refer to… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| buzai 部材 | A generic term for the structural members which form the framework *honegumi… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| byakudan 白檀 | Sandalwood; santalum album. A tree with fine-grained hardwood, native to India and Southeast Asia. The wood is pale-yellow… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Byakue Kannon 白衣観音 | Also Byakushozon 白処尊 and Byakue Kanjizaimo 白衣観自在母. (Sk: Panduravasini); White-robed *… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| byakugō 白毫 | ✓ | Also *mikenkō 眉間光, miken byakugō 眉間白毫, miken byakugōsō 眉間白毫相… |
Art History, Sculpture |
| byakugun 白群 | A pale blue pigment *ganryō 顔料, used in Japanese painting *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| byakuroku 白緑 | A pale green pigment *ganryō 顔料, used in Japanese painting *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| byōbu-e 屏風絵 | Paintings on folding screens *byōbu 屏風. The earliest record of… |
Art History, Painting | |
| byōbu 屏風 | A folding screen consisting of multiple, joined panels. Folding screens vary in size; the standard size consists of six… |
Art History, Painting | |
| byōbudana 屏風棚 | A type of decorative double hanging shelf *tsuridana 釣棚, placed in an alcove… |
Architecture, Accessories | |
| byōbuori 屏風折 | Also termed *orihei 折塀 (folding wall). A castle wall that zig-zags… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| byōmon 廟門 | ✓ | Also called reibyōmon 霊廟門. An entrance gate to a mausoleum. It can be an elaborate gate in two-storied or simulated… |
Architecture, Gates |
| byōtō 廟塔 | Lit. mausoleum pagoda. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| ibara 茨 | Also called iga いが. Lit. cusp. 1 The point where two curved lines or forms meet. The… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ibaraki 茨城 | Lit. thorn tree fortress. A simple and usually temporary fortress surrounded by thorn trees or briar bushes to defend it… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| ichi Fuji, ni taka, san nasubi 一富士二鷹三茄子 | Lit. first: Mt Fuji; second: hawks; third: eggplant. A tradition which holds that these objects, seen in order in the first… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ichi no ji kuzushi 一の字崩 | ✓ | A decorative pattern used for muntins on sliding doors *shōji 障子, and transoms*… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| ichi no ji tsunagi 一の字繋 | A decorative pattern used for muntins on sliding doors *shōji 障子 and transoms*… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| ichi no ma 一の間 | Lit. room one. The innermost and most prestigious room, six to twelve straw mats *tatami… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| ichi no mon 一の門 | The first or main gate of a castle. At Matsuyamajō 松山城 in Ehime Prefecture, the gate plan was square *… |
Architecture, Gates, Castles | |
| ichi no oni 一の鬼 | ✓ | The ogre-face tile *onigawara 鬼瓦, placed at the ends of offspring ridges *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| ichiboku kaidan 一木階段 | A ladder hewed from a single log during the Yayoi period. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ichiboku-zukuri 一木造 | Also called ichiboku chō 一木彫 or ichiboku chōsei 一木彫成. Antonym of *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Ichiji kinrin mandara 一字金輪曼荼羅 | A variety of small, decidated mandala *besson mandara 別尊曼荼羅 centered on… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| Ichiji Kinrin 一字金輪 | Lit. One-Syllable Golden Wheel. Also read Ichiji konrin and also known as Kinrin Butchō 金輪仏頂 (Golden-… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| ichijōhan no seki 一畳半の席 | ✓ | Also written 一帖半の席. A very small tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室, no more… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| ichijūdana 一重棚 | ✓ | Also ichijū tsuridana 一重釣棚. A single shelf suspended by a slender bamboo pole. It is made of paulownia when it… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| ichimai biraki 一枚開 | A single window or door opening. Also, a single door or window. They may swing on hinges one way, both ways, or slide. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ichimai-e 一枚絵 | Also ichimaizuri 一枚摺. Lit. single-sheet print. A single *ukiyo-e 浮世絵… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ichimatsu 市松 | ✓ | Also ishidatami 石畳 or *ishidatamimon 石畳文, danshichi 団七… |
Art History, Painting |
| ichimon-e 一文絵 | Lit. one mon picture. A small-sized woodblock print, usually depicting a courtesan or actor, printed only in black… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ichimonji bokashi 一文字ぼかし | A printing technique for producing graduated tones (shading) on woodblock prints *ukiyo-… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ichimonji dana 一文字棚 | A term used in all parts of Japan in the Edo period, for a straight shelf *tana… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ichimonji gawara 一文字瓦 | 1 Also called ichimonji nokigawara 一文字軒瓦; ichimonji karakusagawara 一文字唐草瓦. A type of… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| ichimonji 一文字 | 1 Two strips of fabric directly above and below a painting measuring the exact width of the painting,… |
Art History, Painting, Architecture, Gardens | |
| Ichinotani kassen 一ノ谷合戦 | A pictorial subject depicting scenes from the Battle at Ichinotani, a decisive confrontation in the Genpei war Genpei… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ichirin ike 一輪生 | ✓ | A small flower vase which is just large enough for one flower stalk. Most vases of this type were made of ceramic but… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| Idaten 韋駄天 | Also written 違駄天. The Indian deity Skanda, son of Shiva and general of his army, who became a protector of the Dharma in… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| ido 井戸 | 1 A well supplying drinking water. It may be deep or narrow, depending on the depth of the water table. The… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses | |
| idoko 居所 | Shortened form of idokoro 居所. A name for rooms or spaces in the following contexts: |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| iejiro 家城 | Lit. house castle. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| igarakuri 鋳繰 | Also ikarakuri. A method of casting metal statues by joining several sections. In the case of a large statue it was… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| igayaki 伊賀焼 | Iga 伊賀 ware. A stoneware ceramic made in Iga (now Maruhashira 丸柱 village), Mie Prefecture and in a few nearby villages. The… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| igeta 井桁 | 1 A generic term for any group of structural members set in a grid pattern. 2 The… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| iji dōzu 異時同図 | ✓ | A compositional method used to show successive events within a unified background, dōzu 同図, capturing the same… |
Art History, Painting |
| ijō kōbai 居定勾配 | Also abbreviated to ijō 居定. The degree of pitch on the underside of a rafter support *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ikake 鋳掛 | Repairing a hole or crack in a metal object. There are two methods: 1) crack in a metal statue or vessel is… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| ikazuchimon いかずち文 | Lit. lightning pattern. A pattern of thick and thin zig-zag lines. A variation of raimon 雷文 (see *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| ike niwa 池庭 | Lit. pond garden. A very general term for any garden with a pond. It includes other terms such as the archaic garden pond *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| ike no kokoro 池の心 | Lit. heart of the pond. The most important part of a pond, which, may be the center, bottom, or surface. The term is… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| ikebana 生け花 | Lit. to keep flowers alive. Flower arrangements. Originated in Buddhist flower offerings kuge 供花 from the 6th… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| ikegaki 生垣 | ✓ | Lit. living fence. A type of hedge made of trees, bamboo, or other living plants planted in a row and trimmed so as to form… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| ikekomigata tōrō いけこみ形灯籠 | Also written 生込み形灯籠. A lantern which lacks a base; the stem is inserted directly into the ground. Most lanterns of this type… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| iki いき | The aesthetic ideal of the Edo merchant class during the late 18th and 19th centuries, combining material sensuality and… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| ikkaku sennin 一角仙人 | Art History, Sculpture | ||
| ikken ikka 一間一花 | ✓ | A type of decorative pattern painted on coffered ceilings *gōtenjō 格天井 or… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| ikken'ya 一軒屋 | An independently framed urban-vernacular house *machiya 町家 of a more… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| ikkensha zukuri 一間社造 | A style of main shrine building that has a small one-bay sanctuary *honden… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| ikkō sanzon 一光三尊 | A triad of Buddhist statues arranged in front of a large nimbus *kōhai 光背, that… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Ikkyū 一休 | An abbreviation of Ikkyū Zenji 一休禅師, the Zen 禅 priest Ikkyū (1394-1481) of the *… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| ikuwamon 的門 | A gate at Heijō palace, Heijōkyū 平城宮 (8th century), in Nara that no longer exists but is mentioned in Shoku Nihongi… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| Ikuzanshu 郁山主 | Ch: Yushanzhu. Lit. Master of Mt. Yu (Jp: Ikuzan 郁山). A Chinese Chan (Jp: Zen 禅) monk from Hunan (Jp: Konan 湖南)… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ima 居間 | Lit. living room. A room commonly utilized as the principal space for daily living. 1 The daily… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| imae 居前 | The correct seating position for the host when performing tea ceremony. For example, in the Urasenke 裏千家 school, a portable… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| imariyaki 伊万里焼 | ✓ | Imari ware. A general term for porcelain from the Arita 有田 region of Saga Prefecture, but not including the Kakiemon 柿右衛門… |
Art History, Crafts |
| imawaka 今若 | A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a young man of noble birth. Very similar to *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| imibiyaden 忌火屋殿 | Lit. pure fire hall. A hall for the preparation of food to be offered to the gods at Ise Jingu 伊勢神宮. The character 忌 imi… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| imotsugi 芋継 | Same meaning as imomeji 芋目地. 1 A straight-line, end-to-end blind stub tenon *… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| in no koguchi 陰の虎口 | Defensive castle entrance, or yin entrance. A generic term for various types castle entrance *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| In-pa 院派 | A school of Buddhist sculptors *busshi 仏師, based in Kyoto, active from the late… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| in 印 | Also inzō 印相 also read insō, shu-in 手印, and mitsu-in 密印. Sk: mudra. A hand gesture… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| in'yō no kuruwa 陰陽の郭 | Defensive castle compounds in no kuruwa 陰の郭 and offensive castle compounds yō no kuruwa 陽の郭. In Chinese,… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| in'yōseki 陰陽石 | ✓ | Lit. yin and yang stone. A pair of stones representing male and female principles or genitalia. Also called on'yōseki… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| inagi 稲城 | Also read inaki. Lit. rice plant fortress. A small and temporary defensive palisade of bundles or sheaves of rice… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| inago 稲子 | Slip fasteners. The wooden or bamboo pieces used on the reverse side of the overlapped boards of a board-and-batten ceiling… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| inakama 田舎間 | Also edoma 江戸間. A length of 1.8 m or less, defining the standard length of a single bay: the distance from the… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| inari torii 稲荷鳥居 | ✓ | A type of gate-like structure *torii 鳥居 at inari 稲荷… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| inazuma kanamono 稲妻金物 | T-shaped metal fitting inserted into a track and used for hanging scrolls in an alcove *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| inazuma orekugi 稲妻折釘 | Also *nijū orekugi 二重折釘. A twice bent nail that is used under the ceiling… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| inazumabishi 稲妻菱 | ✓ | A architectural design pattern in the shape of a diamond, *hishi 菱, which… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| inazumamon 稲妻文 | ✓ | Also *raimon 雷文. An architectural design pattern thought to be based on flashes… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| inbutsu 印仏 | A type of Buddhist print design made with a stamp. A seal, usually about 10 cm or smaller, is engraved with the image of a… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Inchū hassen 飲中八仙 | Ch: Yinzhong baxian. A painting subject based on the poem Yinzhong baxiange (Jp: Inchū hassenka… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Inen 伊年 | A name found in seals applied to many works by Tawaraya Sōtatsu 俵屋宗達 (? - 1640?) and by members of his school, both in… |
Art History, Painting | |
| inkoku 陰刻 | Also shizume ukibori 沈め浮彫. Hollow relief carving. An inscription or motif hollowed out of a surface using a burin… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| inokosasu 豕扠首 | ✓ | Also sasuzuka sasuzaoshiki 扠首束扠首竿式, *sasuzao 扠首竿, *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| inome gegyo 猪目懸魚 | ✓ | Lit. boar's-eye gable pendant. A gable pendant *gegyo 懸魚, decorated with heart-… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| inomedana 猪目棚 | ✓ | Also kariokidana 仮置棚. Lit. boar's eye shelf. A two-tiered shelf *nijūdana… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| inomemado 猪目窓 | Lit. boar's eye window. A window in a tea ceremony structure thought to resemble a boar's eye. The window is really… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| inpu 印譜 | A collection of seal impressions gathered into book form. Collections of Chinese seals from the Zhou and Qin dynasties are… |
Art History, Painting |
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