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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
Takekawa 竹河 ✓

A pictorial subject taken from "Takekawa" ("Bamboo River"), Chapter 44 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of…

Art History, Painting, Document
Tamakazura 玉鬘 ✓

A pictorial subject taken from "Tamakazura" ("The Jeweled Chaplet"), Chapter 22 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The…

Art History, Painting, Document
Tansei jakubokushū 丹青若木集

"Collection of Young Trees of Painting"; one-volume biography of Japanese painters by Kano Ikkei 狩野一渓 (1599-1662). Compiled…

Art History, Painting, Document
Teizō hisho 庭造秘書

Lit. "Secret Text on Garden Construction." A treatise on landscape design supposedly written first in the Muromachi period.…

Architecture, General Terms, Document
Tōhaku gasetsu 等伯画説

Tōhaku's Explanation of Painting, comments of the Momoyama period painter Hasegawa Tōhaku 長谷川等伯 (1539-1610) on well…

Art History, Painting, Document
Tokai hōkan 図絵宝鑑

Ch: Tuhui baojian. Precious Mirror of Painting, a late Yuan dynasty history of Chinese painting by Xia…

Art History, Painting, Document
Tokai sōi 図絵宗彜

Also sometimes read Zue sōi. Ch: Tuhui zongyi. Principles of Painting. Chinese painting manual…

Art History, Painting, Document
Tokonatsu 常夏 ✓

Lit. "everlasting summer." A pictorial subject taken from "Tokonatsu" ("Wild Carnations"), Chapter 26 of Genji…

Art History, Painting, Document
Tsukiyama teizōden 築山庭造伝

Lit. "Commentary on Landscape Gardens."

1 A mid-Edo book written by garden designer Kitamura Enkin…

Architecture, Gardens, Document
Tsuta-no-hosomichi 蔦の細道

Lit. "narrow road of ivy." Pictorial subject matter taken from Episode 9, *Azuma…

Art History, Painting, 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