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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
kyōgōzuri 校合摺

Proof prints made from the key block (the block that prints the dark outlines of a woodblock print *…

Art History, Painting
kyōji 経師

Originally, professionals who hand-copied sutras in the Nara period. Later the appellation referred to artisans who mounted…

Art History, Painting
kyōji 脇侍

Also written 挟侍. Also wakishi 脇士, wakidachi 脇立. Also pronounced attendant figures. In groups of Buddhist…

Art History, Sculpture
kyōji 胸字

The mark 卍 manji on the chest of the Buddha. Kyōji is listed as one of the 32 attributes of Buddha *…

Art History, Sculpture
kyojō 居城

Also read ijō and ijiro. A castle or fortification in which the castle lord resides on a daily basis…

Architecture, Castles
kyokan 居館

1 A manor or palace, yakata 館, where a lord resides.


2 In the case…

Architecture, Castles
kyokuroku 曲ろく

Also written 曲禄. Also less commonly called kyoku 曲 or kyokugi 曲木. Lit. curved wood. A chair made of…

Art History, Sculpture
kyōma 京間

1 The standard measurement used for bay size in the Kansai 関西 region, along the Inland Sea, along the San'…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
kyōninkei 杏仁形

Lit. apricot-kernel shape. This term refers to the eyes of Buddhist statues, which are wide open in the shape of an apricot…

Art History, Sculpture
kyōrogumi 京呂組 ✓

The method used to attach a purlin *jōyageta 上屋桁 and transverse beams *…

Architecture, General Terms
kyoshimon 鋸歯文 ✓

Also called sen kyoshimon 線鋸歯文. Saw-tooth pattern. Kyoshimon includes the zigzag pattern *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kyoshinkō 挙身光

Lit. whole body halo. A halo, *kōhai 光背 surrounding the head and body of a…

Art History, Sculpture
kyōshoku 狭軾

Armrest. The word was used in the Nara period, but amended to kyōsoku 脇息 in the mid-Heian period. Shapes are…

Art History, Sculpture
kyōshoku 胸飾

Also read munakazari, or kyōtetsu 胸綴. An ornament found on the breast of *…

Art History, Sculpture
Kyoto busshi 京都仏師

Also kyō busshi 京仏師. Buddhist sculptors *busshi 仏師 associated with…

Art History, Sculpture
kyōyaki 京焼 ✓

Kyoto ware. General name of the ceramic wares of Kyoto (except *rakuyaki…

Art History, Crafts
Kyoyū and Sōho 許由・巣父

Ch: Xu You Chao Fu. A painting subject representing two legendary Chinese scholar-hermits famous for their extreme…

Art History, Painting
kyōzō 経蔵 ✓

Also called kyōko 経庫, kyōdō 経堂, zōden 蔵殿. A repository and storehouse for sutras, or sacred books…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
kyōzutsu 経筒

Sutra cylinder. A container for the Buddhist sutras placed in the sutra mound kyōzuka 経塚: cylinders of circular,…

Art History, Crafts
kyūdaisu 及台子 ✓

Kyūdaisu is an abridged form of kyūdai daisu 及第台子. Also written 弓台子. An informal type of portable…

Architecture, Tea Houses
kyūden 宮殿

Also kūden 空殿.


1 Also *zushi 厨子, an old term…

Architecture, Accessories
kyūjiguchi 給仕口

Also called kamuroguchi 禿口, *kayoiguchi 通い口 or *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
kyūkado sama 急角狭間

A corner loophole or gunport. Loopholes made at a ninety-degree corner of a castle wall, rather than in a flat wall. The…

Architecture, Castles
kyūraku-zu 宮楽図

Ch: gongletu. Lit. Pictures of Pleasures at Court. A broad term referring to paintings of Chinese court ladies, often…

Art History, Painting
Kyūrō 九老

Ch: Jiulao. Lit. nine old friends. An abbreviation of Kyūrōkai-zu 九老会図 (Ch: Jiulaohuitu). Paintings zu…

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