| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| 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.
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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.
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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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