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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
gasshōhire 合掌鰭

Also oigata 笈形, *taiheibire 大瓶鰭. Lit. principal-rafter fins. A…

Architecture, Decorations
gegyo 懸魚 ✓

Also gegyo 掛魚 (Ch: guayu); formerly also pronounced kengyo. Gable pendant, lit. hanging fish.…

Architecture, Decorations
geshō 牙象

1 Also gejō. A type of molding *kurigata 繰形. The…

Architecture, Decorations
giboshi kōran 擬宝珠高欄

A railing *kōran 高欄, with newel posts, oyabashira 親柱, topped with an…

Architecture, Decorations
giboshi 擬宝珠 ✓

Also pronounced gibōshi, giboju, gibōshu, goboshu. A decoration in the shape of the…

Architecture, General Terms, Decorations
goyō 五葉

Lit. five leaves. A decorative pattern carved into the shape of five petals, and used on a gable pendant *…

Architecture, Decorations
gyakuren 逆蓮 ✓

Also sakabasu 逆蓮, kaikaren 開花蓮, *yuiwata 結綿. A shape that…

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