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bizen'yaki 備前焼 ✓

Bizen 備前 ware. Pottery made in the Inbe 伊部 village of Bizen Province, now known as Wakegun 和気郡 in Okayama Prefecture. The…

Art History, Crafts
wakyō 和鏡

Japanese style mirrors. Wakyō were developed as part of toilet sets in the Heian period. Previously large and…

Art History, Crafts
wamono 和物

Lit. "Japanese things." A term used in *chanoyu 茶湯 in…

Art History, Crafts

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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