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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
bai 唄 ✓

A circular nail head cover *kugikakushi 釘隠, placed over a nail to attach a…

Architecture, Decorations
bakuhana 獏鼻 ✓

Lit. tapir nose. Also called bakugashira 獏頭. A type of nosing *kibana…

Architecture, Decorations
bishamon kikkō 毘沙門亀甲

A decorative pattern composed of three joined hexagonal shapes. It is named after the guardian deity *…

Architecture, Decorations
bokashi 暈

1 A gradation of colors or tones from dark to light or vice versa. One example is colorization of the…

Architecture, Decorations, Art History, Painting
wakaba 若葉 ✓

1 An abstract decorative pattern of extended curved lines based on the form of a leaf. The pattern is…

Architecture, Decorations
wakigegyo 脇懸魚

Lit. "side gable pendant." Also *kudarigegyo 降懸魚, *…

Architecture, Decorations
warabite 蕨手 ✓

Also warabide. A style of ornamentation which features a curved design based on curling bracken shoots. It is found…

Architecture, Decorations
watabana 綿花

Also written 綿鼻. A molding *kurigata 繰形 in the shape of a silk-…

Architecture, Decorations

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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