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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
Bengyokushū 弁玉集

Discriminating Jade from Stone Collection, a late 17th-century miscellany on art which ranges from the discussion of tea…

Art History, Painting, Document
Besson zakki 別尊雑記

Miscellaneous Record of Classified Sacred Images, a late Heian compendium of Buddhist iconography. Also called the…

Art History, Painting, Document
Bunchō gadan 文晁画談

Bunchō's Treatise on Painting, an early 18th-century miscellany on painters, painting techniques, tools, and…

Art History, Painting, Document
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
Matsukaze 松風 ✓

1 A pictorial subject taken from "Matsukaze" ("The Wind in the Pines"), Chapter 18 of  Genji…

Art History, Painting, Document
Minori 御法 ✓

A pictorial subject based on "Minori" ("The Rites" or "The Venerable Law"), Chapter 40 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (…

Art History, Painting, Document
Miotsukushi 澪標

A pictorial subject based on "Miotsukushi" ("Channel Buoys"), Chapter 14 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of…

Art History, Painting, Document
Misogi 禊

Ablutions performed to remove sin or illness. As a pictorial theme it is most closely associated with Section 65 of Ise…

Art History, Painting, Document
Miyuki 行幸 ✓

A pictorial subject taken from "Miyuki" ("The Royal Outing"), Chapter 29 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of…

Art History, Painting, Document
Momiji no ga 紅葉賀 ✓

Lit. "celebration of autumn leaves." A pictorial subject based on Chapter 7 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale…

Art History, Painting, Document
Musōryū chitei 夢窓流治庭

Lit. "Corrective on Gardens of the Musō Lineage." A late Edo period treatise on landscape gardening. According to the…

Architecture, Gardens, Document

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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