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bizen'yaki 備前焼 ✓

Bizen 備前 ware. Pottery made in the Inbe 伊部 village of Bizen Province, now known as Wakegun 和気郡 in Okayama Prefecture. The…

Art History, Crafts
jikirō 食籠

A lidded food container, usually layered and lacquered with decorations of sunken gold *…

Art History, Crafts
jinbaori 陣羽織

Campaign jacket. A short garment worn over armor. Based on European prototypes introduced by the Portuguese at the end of…

Art History, Crafts
jōfu 上布

Lit. superior cloth. A jōfu lightweight, fine hand-woven cloth made lightweight from delicate hand-twisted ramie…

Art History, Crafts

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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