| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| hashirama sōchi 柱間装置 | A generic term in traditional architecture referring to any architectural element with an interior finish found within a bay… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hashirama 柱間 | A bay or span. The distance between pillars, measuring from the center of the pillars. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hashirasuji 柱筋 | The direction of a line of pillars. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hashirayose 柱寄 | An ancient word meaning the same as *hōdate 方立, a vertical member placed on… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hashirō 橋廊 | A bridge-like corridor that spans a garden pond or an area between two buildings. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hassen 八仙 | Ch: baxian. Lit. eight immortals. The eight figures considered to be the experts in and protectors of Taoism. The impetus… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Hasshu gafu 八種画譜 | Ch: Bazhong huapu. Primer on Eight Varieties of Painting, a compilation of eight texts on poetry and painting… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hassō 発装 | Also written 八双, 雙双, 八宗. Can also be called hyōmoku 表木 when referring to hanging scrolls *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hassō kanagu 八双金具 | ✓ | Also called hassō kanamono 八双金物; sakawa kanagu 逆輪金具 or saba-no-o 鯖の尾. Lit. twin… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| Hassōtobi 八艘飛 | An abbreviation for Yoshitsune hassōtobi 義経八艘飛 or Yoshitsune's Leap over Eight Boats, one of the many… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hata-ita 鰭板 | Also read hire-ita but this reading is considered to be incorrect according to the Kaokuzakkō 家屋雑考 (… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hatachi amari 二十余 | Also written 廿一. Lit. Barely twenty. Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing the… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hatagoya 旅籠屋 | Also hatago 旅篭. A common term for an inn from the late Heian to the early modern periods. In the ancient period,… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| hatasode 鰭袖 | Also hatasode 端袖, hiresode 鰭袖. A style of sleeve found on Buddhist images. The sleeve of the robe is tied… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hatchū-zukuri 八注造 | Also called hakkaku yane 八角屋根. The eight-sided roof of an octagonal hall *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hatsu-no-ishi 初の石 | Lit. first stone. The stone nearest the crawl-in entrance *nijiriguchi… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hatsuboku 溌墨 | Ch: pomo. Lit. splashed ink. An ink painting *suibokuga 水墨画… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Hatsune 初音 | ✓ | A pictorial subject taken from "The First Warbler" or more literally "The First Song," Chapter 23 of Genji monogatari… |
Art History, Painting |
| hattō 法堂 | ✓ | A lecture hall which corresponds to the *kōdō 講堂 in temples of… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hayashiza 囃子座 | The place on a noh stage *nōbutai 能舞台 where three or four musicians sit,… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hazama-ishi 狭間石 | 1 Also read sama-ishi. Rough stones placed between pillar base stones when a building is erected… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hegi へぎ | Written 折, 片木, or 剥.
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Art History, Sculpture | |
| hegi-ita 枌板 | Also written 剥板; sogi-ita 殺板, 曽木板.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| Heian jidai 平安時代 | The Heian period (794-1185), during which Heiankyō 平安京 (later, Kyoto) became the political and cultural capital of Japan.… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| Heiankyū 平安宮 | Heian Imperial Palace, located in the northern part of the Heian Capital. Enclosed by clay walls, buildings included the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| heichi jūkyo 平地住居 | A type of house in which the floor is level with the surface of the ground, rather than excavated into it like a pit-… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| heidatsu 平脱 | Ch. Pingtuo. A technique in which thin sheets of metal are cut into decorative shapes and set in a lacquer base;… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| heiden 幣殿 | A shrine building, usually located on the same axis as the worship hall *haiden… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| heijiku 幣軸 | ✓ | Also hezuke or henzuke 辺付. Thought to be a corruption of a term used in Shōsōin documents Shōsōin… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| heijūmon 塀重門 | Also written 塀中門 and sometimes read heichōmon; also called heichimon or heijimon 塀地門 or … |
Architecture, Gates | |
| Heike-e 平家絵 | Lit. paintings of Heike. The usual abbreviation of Heike monogatari-e 平家物語絵, illustrations of famous incidents… |
Art History, Painting | |
| heikō daruki 平行垂木 | ✓ | Rafters laid parallel to each other from the ridge almost to the eave ends. When parallel rafters reach the corner of the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| heimen-zu 平面図 | 1 Also *fuse-zu 伏図. The two-dimensional drawing of… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| heishi 瓶子 | Also heiji. A type of wine vessel with a long slim neck with narrow mouth and round bottom, or narrow mouth, round waist… | Art History, Crafts | |
| heishitaji nuki-no-ireyō 塀下地貫入様 | A method used to insert braces into an earthen wall. One brace was placed above the upper cross piece. Another brace was… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| heishitaji 塀下地 | The material used to build an earthen wall for a castle. This material must be harder than that used for residences in… | Architecture, Castles | |
| heita 平太 | A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a strong warrior in full maturity. Wide open… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| heitenseki 平天石 | Lit. flat top stone. A name for stones flattened on the top side. Heitenseki may be used to express the wings of… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hekiga 壁画 | Lit. wall painting or mural.
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Art History, Painting | |
| hekitai 壁体 | Also written 壁體. The material from which a wall is made, excluding any added exterior veneer or covering. It can also mean… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hengaku 扁額 | 1 Also called *gaku 額. A tablet or board, framed or unframed, on… |
Architecture, Tea Houses, Art History, Painting | |
| henge Kannon 変化観音 | The transformations in which *Kannon 観音 appears in order to save sentient… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| henkaku no kei 辺角の景 | Also called zanzan jōsui 残山剰水 (Ch: canshan shengshui) or left-over mountains and remaining water. A compositional… |
Art History, Painting | |
| henkō karakusamon 扁行唐草文 | ✓ | An asymmetric arabesque pattern. Most arabesque patterns have a centrally positioned motif *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| hennen 編年 | The arrangement of things (buildings, temples, paintings, sculptures, etc.) chronologically according to historical period… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hensō 変相 | Ch: bianxiang. Also called hen 変 (Ch: bian) or kyōhen 経変 (Ch: jingbian). Transformation scenes, tableaux,… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hentan uken 偏袒右肩 | A style of wearing a Buddhist robe where the right shoulder is exposed. Frequently seen on *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| henushi 戸主 | 1 Also pronounced koshu. The head of a household, responsible to the state for the behavior of… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| henzai 辺材 | ✓ | Also called shirata 白太. Sapwood. The part of a tree trunk miki 幹 that is just beneath the bark juhi… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| henzan 偏衫 | Also pronounced hensan, or called fukuken-e 覆肩衣, which literally means garment covering the shoulders. A… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| heri-ishi 縁石 | Also called *katsura-ishi 葛石. Lit. edging stone. A stone used as a border… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| herinuno 縁布 | *Tatami 畳 edging. A cloth border attached to tatami mats. Varieties… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| heya 部屋 | 1 A room specifically designated for the use of a particular person or a group of people of the same status… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hi-no-de dana 日出棚 | A type of decorative closet against a wall, with two small doored compartments resting on the floor and a round window… | Architecture, Decorations | |
| hi-no-mi yagura 火見櫓 | Fire towers. Timber-framed watchtowers erected during the Edo period in large cities to enable fires to be located when they… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| hiage-ishi 灯上石 | Also kazari-ishi 飾石, hitomoshi-ishi 火灯石, tenka-ishi 点火石. Originally, the stone on which a flame was placed before it was… | Architecture, Lanterns | |
| hibashi 火箸 | Also called koji 火筋 or hisuji. Lit. fire-chopsticks. Charcoal tongs. A pair of metal chopsticks used for… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hibata 樋端 | The edges hata 端 on the sides of grooves, troughs, or channels hi 樋 made in a sill or head jamb. Usually… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hibukuraganna 布倉鉋 | A side-shaving plane. A plane used for smoothing and finishing the sides of a groove. Usually two of these planes are… | Architecture, Tools | |
| hibukuro 火袋 | 1 The pocket-like or box-like space in a fire box or stove *kamado… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hibukuro-zukuri 火袋造 | A style of living room *chanoma 茶の間, found particularly in the taverns *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| hibutsu 秘仏 | Lit. secret Buddha. A Buddhist image which is ordinarily kept secret. Hibutsu are enshrined in miniature shrines *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hidasukimon 火襷文 | ✓ | Fire-cord design. A decoration used on ceramics. While appearing accidental, this is a method created by the special… |
Art History, Crafts |
| hide 碑伝 | Markers set at intervals along a mountain trail by ascetic monks called yamabushi 山伏 or shugenja 修験者. Many… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hidensho 秘伝書 | Lit. secret hereditary writings. A manual which describes carpentry techniques developed by the master carpenters… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| Hie Sannō matsuri 日吉山王祭 | Also known as Hie 日吉 (can be read Hiyoshi) matsuri 祭 or Sannō matsuri 山王祭. A pictorial… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hie-zukuri 日吉造 | Also called shōtei-zukuri or shōtai-zukuri 聖帝造 or sannō-zukuri 山王造. A unique style of shrine… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| hien daruki 飛檐垂木 | ✓ | Also called konoki daruki 小軒垂木. A flying rafter. A short rafter attached to the base rafter *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hien sumigi 飛檐隅木 | Lit. a flying corner rafter. A flying hip rafter. A short rafter that has the same function as a flying rafter *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| higaki 檜垣 | Lit. Cypress fence. A type of fence in which the bark of the Japanese cypress, hinoki 檜, is braided into a net pattern or… | Architecture, Gardens | |
| higaki-onna 桧垣女 | Two noh masks *nōmen 能面 used one in the first and the other in the second act of… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Higashimuro 東室 | ✓ | The east dormitory for Buddhist priests at Hōryūji 法隆寺 in Nara. It is located in the west precinct Saiin 西院, and has nine,… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| Higashiyama bunka 東山文化 | Lit. east mountain culture. The culture of the middle Muromachi period *… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| higuchi 灯口 | Also 火口. Openings around the flame holder *hibukuro 火袋 of a lantern… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| hijiki 肘木 | A common name for the bracket arm which forms part of the bearing block and bracket complex, structural elements which… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hijirimado 聖窓 | ✓ | A box-shaped, latticed window that often extended, demado 出窓, out from a building and was constructed at about… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hikaebashira 控柱 | Also called tsukkaibashira 突支柱, hikaetori 控取, sasaebashira also read *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hikaebei 控塀 | Any upright pole or post which forms the inner core of an earthen wall with a tiled and gabled roof. One example is found… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hikaegui 控杭 | Any upright pole or post added to the inside of a castle wall for extra support. While hikaegui increased the strength of… | Architecture, Castles | |
| hikichigai 挽違 | The act of sawing square or rectangular timbers on the diagonal to produce two trapezoidal shapes. The timbers themselves… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hikichigai 引違 | ✓ | Also hikichigaido 引違戸. Doors that have two or more translucent screens *shōji… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hikidake 引竹 | Transverse finishing bamboo attached to a sleeve wall *sodekabe 袖壁. It is… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hikido 引戸 | A generic term for doors or windows which slide horizontally on sill and head jamb tracks. Some open on both sides and move… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hikifuda 引札 | A woodblock printed advertisement used to announce a store, publicize a product, or advertise a new publication. In the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hikihashi 引橋 | 1 Lit. a pull bridge. A type bridge that can be pulled into a castle. One such example is the … |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hikimawashi-noko 挽廻鋸 | A coping saw. A saw used to cut curves in wood. The blade is very narrow so as to allow free movement when cutting. It… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| hikime kagihana 引目鉤鼻 | Also read hikime kagibana and written 引目鈎鼻. Lit. slit eyes, hooked nose. A technique used to draw faces of the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hikite 引手 | ✓ | Lit. hand pull. Commonly called door pull. A door pull added to sliding doors *fusuma… |
Architecture, Accessories |
| hikiwakedo 引分戸 | Also called ryōbikido 両引戸. Two sliding doors that occupy a single track. When closed, the doors come together in… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hikiwatashi kōbai 引渡勾配 | ✓ | A hypotenuse. A mathematically computed straight line stretching from the peak of the ridge to the eave-end and used to help… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| himashun 披麻皴 | Lit. hemp-fiber texture stroke; a type of brushstroke, so called because it resembles a loose hemp thread. A texture brush… |
Art History, Painting | |
| himorogi 神籬 | 1 A single sacred pillar standing independently. Its origin as well as its true significance is not clear… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| himuroike 氷室池 | Lit. icehouse pond. A functional type of garden pond used in the winter for cutting ice. In case like the himuroike… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hinagata 雛型 | 1 Also mokei 模型. A miniature or a scaled-down model of a planned work of art. It is usually… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hinagatabon 雛形本 | Also pronounced hiinagata bon. Lit. miniature stamped book. A small-sized woodblock printed book produced during… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hinerito 拈斗 | Hineri means to twist, turn, back, or roll. Also written 捻斗; also called onisarato 鬼皿斗. A square or… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hinuki 飛貫 | Also written 樋貫.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| hippō 筆法 | The manor of using a painting brush in Eastern art and calligraphy. Brush use technique was first mentioned by Xie He (Jp:… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hira-ishi 平石 | Also tsuki-ishi 築石. Broad, flat construction stones used to build the main sections of stone walls *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hira karakusagawara 平唐草瓦 | Also called hira karakusa 平唐草. A broad concave eave-end tile *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
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