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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
chichi-no-ma 乳の間 ✓

Also called chi-no-ma 乳の間. A horizontal band of small round projections found around the upper part of a temple…

Architecture, Decorations
chichikanamono 乳金物 ✓

Also manjū kanamono 饅頭金物 (see *manjūgata 饅頭形), hoshu 鋪首,…

Architecture, Decorations
chirashihassō 散八双

A generic name for the decorative metal fittings *kazarikanagu 飾金具,…

Architecture, Decorations
chirashikanagu 散金具

A metal fitting *kanagu 金具 attached to the corners of a door and…

Architecture, Decorations
chirashimanji 散万字

A pattern which consists of swastika manji 卍 motifs inside a square grid.

Architecture, Decorations
chirashiōgi 散扇

Also chiriōgi. A decorative, geometric pattern that resembles closed fan shapes on a square grid. It is found on…

Architecture, Decorations
chōchinbishi 提灯菱

Lit. Lantern diamond. A type of diamond pattern *hishi 菱 used on mullions *…

Architecture, Decorations
chōjikuzushi 丁字崩

A decorative, geometric pattern based on the character 丁 chō that is found on transoms *…

Architecture, Decorations
chōkoku ranma 彫刻欄間 ✓

Lit. carved transom. A decorative frieze consisting of carved panels fixed above the head of a door. Transom designs include…

Architecture, Decorations
chūshin kazari 中心飾

Also tenjō chūshinkazari 天井中心飾. Lit. center flower.

1 A group of decorative patterns in…

Architecture, Decorations
daibutsuyō kibana 大仏様木鼻

Also daibutsuyōkei kibana 大仏様系木鼻. Lit. nosings in the daibutsu style. Incised nosings found on bracket…

Architecture, Decorations
daibutsuyō kurigata 大仏様繰形 ✓

Typical daibutsu style *daibutsuyō 大仏様, decorative carvings *…

Architecture, Decorations
dehana 出鼻

Also debana. A projecting part. An example is the coping that extend past the pillars on either side of a Shinto…

Architecture, Decorations
deirimayu 出入眉

Also called kujirimayu 抉眉, or shakurimayu 決眉. A type of carved molding, *…

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