| 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 | |
| naga-ita 長板 | Lit. "a long board."
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Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| naga-itabuki 長板葺 | 1 An early term for long boards used on roofs. Records dating from the 8th century first used the terms… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nagakikkō 長亀甲 | An elongated hexagon or a decorative pattern consisting of a series of elongated hexagon shapes. |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| nagamarugawara 長丸瓦 | Longer than standard semi-cylindrical roof tiles used as coping tiles *kasagawara… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| nagare 流 | Lit. "flowing." |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nagare-zukuri 流造 | ✓ | Also nagare hafu-zukuri 流破風造. A widely used style of main sanctuary *… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| nagarehozo 流ほぞ | ✓ | A sloped tenon, which is cut into the end of a beam. The top of the tenon is flush with the top surface of the beam. The… |
Architecture, Joints |
| Nagasaki-ha 長崎派 | A term used to group a number of artists and artistic styles associated with the city of Nagasaki 長崎 from the 17th through… |
Art History, Painting | |
| nagasaki hanga 長崎版画 | Also called nagasaki-e 長崎絵 or Nagasaki prints. Woodblock prints made in the port city of Nagasaki during the Edo… |
Art History, Painting | |
| nagashi 流し | 1 A sink used for washing food before its preparation, for washing utensils after a meal, or for washing… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| nagate 長手 | The long side of a timber, or a timber placed in a lengthwise direction. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nagatoko 長床 | A room at Kumano Jinja 熊野神社, in Fukushima Prefecture, which is similar to a worshipper's hall *… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| nagaya 長屋 | Longhouse, or row house. A house with a long ridge. Also indicates a house with a number of residences connected under a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nagayamono 長屋物 | The smallest of three standard sizes of roof tiles yanegawara 屋根瓦, used during the 17th-19th century. The… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| Nageiredō 投入堂 | ✓ | Also once known as Zaōdō 蔵王堂. The Nageiredō is a small building, constructed in the overhang style kake-zukuri 懸造,… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| nagekakebari 投掛梁 | ✓ | A transverse beam *hari 梁 made in two sections and coupled by a stub-tenon-… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| nageshi 長押 | ✓ | Non-penetrating tie beams that are made to fit around pillars *hashira 柱 of… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| nageshibiki 長押挽 | A long rectangular beam cut along a diagonal cross-section and used as a non-penetrating tie *nageshi… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nagimayu 薙眉 | Also called naginata mayu 薙刀眉 or 長刀眉. A type of carved molding *kurigata… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| naginatazori 長刀反 | A sudden strong, upward curve at the corner ends of eaves. Especially characteristic of the Zen style *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| naidō 内堂 | Buddhist priests' living quarters. Higher-ranking priests had two rooms one behind the other. The inner room was called the… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| naiheki 内壁 | 1 An interior wall partition. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| naijimon 内侍門 | Also read naishimon. Traditionally, the timbergate through which virgin attendants entered a shrine. Structurally,… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| naijin 内陣 | ✓ | The inner sanctum located in the main halls *kondō 金堂 or *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| naijinbashira 内陣柱 | ✓ | Also called moyabashira 母屋柱; irikawabashira入側柱. The pillars placed on the boundary between, or slightly… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| naijō 内城 | The innermost compound *kuruwa 郭 of a castle. Sometimes called *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| naiku 内区 | ✓ | The inner section of the pendant *gatō 瓦当, attached to a semi-… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| Naikūgen torii 内宮源鳥居 | Small entrance-gates at Yoshida Jinja 吉田神社 in Kyoto. They are located in front of two small shrines behind the octagonal… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| nainaijin 内内陣 | 1 A miniature shrine within the sanctuary of a Shinto shrine. |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| naka-ita 中板 | A board which is inserted between the host's mat *temaedatami 点前畳 and the… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| naka-no-kuchi 中の口 | 1 A semi-formal entrance to Honmaru Goten 本丸御殿, the main palace in Edo-jō 江戸城. It was situated at the east… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Naka-no-Mibumon 中の壬生門 | According to the Shokunihongi 続日本紀, a gate leading to the waiting area for all officials, chōshūden… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| naka-no-to 中の戸 | 1 A generic term for a door connecting two areas of a structure.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| nakabachi-no-tsukubai 中鉢の蹲踞 | A garden wash-basin set characterized by the use of gravel surrounding it. The gravel allows the water from hand washing to… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| nakabashira 中柱 | 1 Also *daimebashira 台目柱. A small pillar which stands at… |
Architecture, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings | |
| nakado 中戸 | ✓ | A pair of sliding doors *hikichigai 引違, separating the front… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| nakadoi 中樋 | ✓ | A rain gutter placed at the bottom point where two roofs meet. Similar to *narabidō 双堂… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| nakadoma machiya 中土間町家 | An urban vernacular residence *machiya 町家, characterised by a… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| nakadoma 中土間 | An inner earth-floored area found in *nakadoma machiya… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| nakagamachi 中框 | Also called nakazan 中桟. A middle rail. A horizontal rail or rails inserted into stiles tategamachi 竪框 and… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nakago 中型 | Also written 中子. Sometimes known as *ogata 雄型. Inner mould. When a metal statue… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| nakahōdate 中方立 | A vertical, finishing strip of wood placed between the threshold *shikii 敷居 and… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nakai 中居 | 1 A private service-oriented room in the mansions of aristocrats, warriors, retired emperors, abbots and… |
Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings | |
| nakaita-no-seki 中板席 | A tea ceremony room or house that contains a board *naka-ita 中板, set between the host's mat… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| nakajō 中城 | Also *ni-no-maru 二の丸, ni-no-kuruwa 二の郭, naka-no-maru 中の丸.… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| nakako 中子 | ✓ | Also called sakuko 柵子, kakusaku 角柵, marutazaku 丸太柵. The stakes used to support the fencing set in… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| nakakugi 中釘 | Also *hanakugi 花釘, tokonakakugi 床中釘 (see *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| nakakuguri 中潜 | Lit. "middle wicket." Also pronounced uchisomi. It is sometimes called kuguri 潜. A type of middle… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| nakaniwa 中庭 | 1 A place for hanging clothes in vernacular dwellings of the Kantō 関東 region.
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Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| nakanuri 中塗り | ✓ | Also called chūgomi 中込, nakazuke or chūzuke 中付. A middle layer of plaster applied between the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| nakaore 中折 | An architectural element that is bent or has a concave mid-point. A diagonal brace, for example, if less than 90 cm wide,… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nakashikii 中敷居 | Also read chūjikii. Lit. "middle sill." A sill on a shelf that divides a closet into two parts, lower and upper.… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nakasukido 中透戸 | Also called nakashōji 中障子, yoshiwara shōji 吉原障子, takeshōji 竹障子, nakanukido 中抜戸 and … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nakatatezan 中竪桟 | Also written 中縦桟. A vertical stile placed at the mid-point of a paneled door. A centrally placed horizontal stile is called… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nakatsubo 中坪 | Also written 中壷. The inner court between shop and living quarters in a merchant's house in the Edo period. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nakayama torii 中山鳥居 | Also called banshi torii 伴氏鳥居. A stone entrance-gate to a Shinto shrine *torii… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| nakazonae 中備 | ✓ | Also written 中具. Secondary or intermediate supports placed in the interstices between the bracket complexes *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| nakazuka 中束 | ✓ | A generic term for struts *tsuka 束 that are set at the mid-point between two… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| namakogata 海鼠形 | A decorative shape said to resemble a sea slug, namako 海鼠. The shape is often used for the material handles of… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| namakokabe 海鼠壁 | ✓ | Also written 生子壁. A traditional finish for *dozō-zukuri 土蔵造 and *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| namanari 生成 | Lit. "Becoming bestial." A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 used for the wife taking revenge… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| namazu-e 鯰絵 | Pictures of a catfish, namazu 鯰. Japanese legend has it that the movement of large catfish deep inside the earth… |
Art History, Painting | |
| namigata renji 波型連子 | Also namirenji 波連子, yumirenji 弓連子, tatewaki renji 立涌連子. A type of latticework renji… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| namionigawara 波鬼瓦 | ✓ | An ogre tile with a wave pattern descending from its base to form legs ashimoto 足元, that divide over the gable of… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| nanako 魚々子 | ✓ | Also written 魚子, 斜子. Lit. "fish-roe." |
Art History, Architecture, Gardens, Crafts |
| nanakogaki 魚子垣 | Also urokogaki 鱗垣, gonomegaki 互の目垣. A fence made from semi-circular pieces of bamboo or metal. Bamboo… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| nanakomachi 七小町 | ✓ | Lit. "the seven Komachi." Seven episodes concerning the mid-9th century poetess Ono no Komachi 小野小町, one of the Six Poetic… |
Art History, Painting |
| nanatsu-ishi 七つ石 | Seven trump stones in the *roji 露地 or tea garden. They are the hand-washing stone… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| nanban byōbu 南蛮屏風 | Folding screens *byōbu 屏風, usually in a pair, depicting Portuguese and… |
Art History, Painting | |
| nanban-e 南蛮絵 | Western painting brought by the Portuguese and Spanish who arrived in Japan in the 16th century, nanban bijutsu… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| nanban 南蛮 | Lit. "Southern barbarian art." Considered to be the first manifestation of direct Western influence on Japanese culture,… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| Nanbokuchō jidai 南北朝時代 | The Southern and Northern Court period (1336-92). It takes its name from two separate antagonistic Imperial courts supported… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| Nanbōroku 南方録 | Book of Sen no Rikyū's 千利休 (1522-91) tea ceremony secrets which consists of seven volumes entitled: "Memoranda Oboegaki… |
Architecture, Tea Houses, Document | |
| nandaimon 南大門 | ✓ | The great south gate at Tōdaiji 東大寺 in Nara. The term is also used for the main south gate at other temples. |
Architecture, Gates |
| nando 納戸 | 1 A store room in which clothes and valuables could be kept in the houses of the civil, ecclesiastical and… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nanga 南画 | Lit. "Southern painting." An abbreviation of *nanshūga 南宗画, which… |
Art History, Painting | |
| nanken-nanko 何間 何戸 | Lit. "How many bays? How many entrances?" Questions posed in order to ascertain the number of bays *… |
Architecture, Gates |
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