| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| tōkondō 東金堂 | Also originally called higashi butsuden'in 東仏殿院. A worship hall placed to the east of the pagoda *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| tokonoma 床の間 | Lit. "alcove room." A *tatami 畳 mat room with a small alcove. There… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| tokowaki 床脇 | The place adjacent to an alcove *tokonoma 床の間, where various types of shelves… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Tokugawa jidai 徳川時代 | The Tokugawa period. A rarely used term for the Edo period *Edo jidai… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| tokuri-bashira 徳利柱 | Also dōbari 胴張り. Lit. "entasis." A tall circular pillar, column, or post which curves gradually reaching its widest… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tokusabei 木賊塀 | A type of formal fence associated with the walls surrounding nobles' homes and tearooms *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| tokusajō 木賊尉 | A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing an old, plebeian man used only… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Tokuzan 徳山 | Ch: Deshan. The Chinese priest Deshan Xuanjian (Jp: Tokuzan Senkan 徳山宣鑑, 780-865) who helped preserve Chan 禅 (Jp: Zen) after… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tokyō 斗きょう | ✓ | Also called kumimono 組物 or *masugumi 斗組. A bracket complex composed… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tome 留 | ✓ | A simple miter. The timbers are cut obliquely, usually at 45 degrees, or any other angle as long as the two adjoining… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tomebutagawara 留蓋瓦 | ✓ | Also called tomebuta 留蓋; amabutagawara 雨蓋瓦; sumibutagawara 隅蓋瓦. A cover tile, usually… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| tomobeya 伴部屋 | Also written 供部屋. A room used principally by the servants or attendants tomo 伴, 供 of high ranking visitors both as… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tomoegawara 巴瓦 | ✓ | Also nokitomoe 軒巴, *nokidomoegawara 軒巴瓦. A very… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| tomoemon 巴文 | 1 Also tomoe 巴. A pattern of one or more curled tadpole shapes inside a circle. The pattern is… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Painting, Art History | |
| tonbo kanagu 蜻蛉金具 | Lit. "dragonfly metal fitting." A type of decorative metal fitting *kazari kanagu… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| tonehiragawara 利根平瓦 | Also tonehira 利根平, 刀根平. |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| tonemarugawara 利根丸瓦 | Also called tonemaru 利根丸, 刀根丸, onigiwa marugawara 鬼際丸瓦. This occurs when there is a drooping verge *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| tonoko 砥の粉 | Powdered burnt clay or pulverized whetstone. Used for polishing swords and coloring wood. Tonoko was mixed with… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| tōō 藤黄 | Also kusashiō 草雌黄, abbreviated to *shiō 雌黄. Gamboge.… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Tori yōshiki 止利様式 | A style of sculpture represented by the work of the 7th-century sculptor known as Tori busshi 止利仏師. Tori was believed to be… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| toribusuma 鳥衾 | ✓ | Also written 鳥伏間. Also called toriyasumi 鳥休 (bird rest) or suzumegawara 雀瓦. A cylindrical bird perch tile… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| toride 砦 | Also written 取出, 取手, 塞 also 寨. A small-scale fort, fortification, or stronghold. A structure built near the main castle or… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| Torii-ha 鳥居派 | Lit. "Torii school." A family of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 artists which became a… |
Art History, Painting | |
| torii 鳥居 | Also written 鳥栖; 鶏栖. Lit. "bird perch." At one time, torii were called uefukazu-no-mikado or… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| toriimon 鳥居門 | Lit. "bird perch gate." A shrine gate with a board fence attached to the outer part of each of the two pillars. A *… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| toriizuka 鳥居束 | Row of paired struts *tsuka 束 flanking the king posts *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tōriniwa 通り庭 | ✓ | Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| torinokogami 鳥の子紙 | Also written 鳥子紙. Sometimes abbreviated to torinoko. An eggshell colored, handmade paper *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tōrō 灯籠 | ✓ | Also written 灯篭. A lantern. The earliest were introduced to Japan from China through Korea along with Buddhism in the 6th… |
Architecture, Lanterns |
| tōryō 棟梁 | A master carpenter. A title applied to carpenters from the 16th century onward whose experience qualified them to be leaders… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Tosa-ha 土佐派 | A school of painting, active from the early 15th century until the late 19th, that specialized in courtly subjects painted… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tōsei kabuto 当世兜 | Also written 当世冑. Contemporary helmet. A type of Japanese helmet based on southern barbarian *… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| tōshi-bashira 通し柱 | Also read tōri-bashira 通り柱 or tate nobose-bashira 建登せ柱. A single, uncut member that serves as a post… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tōshi hozo 通しほぞ | Also called tōshi hozosashi 通しほぞ差; uchinuki hozo 打抜ほぞ. A through tenon and mortise angle joint. A… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| tōshi 唐紙 | A type of Chinese paper imported and used in Japan for painting and calligraphy and as backing paper urazuke 裏付 for… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tōshidana 通し棚 | A wall-to-wall shelf located in the area known as *tokowaki 床脇, which is next to an alcove… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tōshihijiki 通し肘木 | ✓ | Also read tōrihijiki 通り肘木. A bracket tie beam. A long horizontal beam inserted into the middle of a bracket complex… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tōshin 等身 | Lit. "life-size." A standard unit of measurement for Buddhist statues *hōryō… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| tōshin 塔身 | The framework of a pagoda *tō 塔, excluding the roof *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| tōshiya-zu 通し矢図 | Pictures of the archery competition held on the 33-bay-long (394 ft) veranda of Sanjūsangendō 三十三間堂 (Rengeōin 蓮華王院) in… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tōshō zuhō 投象図法 | Also tōei zuhō 投影図法, tōei gahō 投影画法. Projection Drawing: a technique used for architectural drawing.… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tōshoku 頭飾 | Decoration found on the head of a Buddhist sculpted figure. This includes hairstyles *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| toshoku 塗色 | ✓ | The colors of paint found on Japanese style *wayō 和様 temples.… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| tōsu 東司 | ✓ | Also read tōshi. Originally tōsu was the god of the latrine who was also called fujō kongō… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| tōtō 東塔 | Lit. "east pagoda." A pagoda located toward the front and on the east side of a temple's precinct grounds. When there are… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Totō Tenjin 渡唐天神 | ✓ | Tenjin crossing to China. The Heian period courtier, poet, and scholar Sugawara Michizane 菅原道真 (845-903) was deified as the… |
Art History, Iconography |
| toya 鳥屋 | A room behind the curtain where actors performing in a *kabuki 歌舞伎 play can rest before… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| toyama hanga 富山版画 | Prints originally designed in the first half of the 19th century by provincial artists and distributed by itinerant peddlers… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tōza 榻座 | A cylindrical seat or round pedestal *daiza 台座 for a Buddhist image. Many images… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| tsū 通 | An 18th and 19th century Edo 江戸 merchant class ideal implying sophisticated knowledge, discernment, and culture. Eventually… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| tsuba 鐔 | Also written 鍔. Sword guard. Tsuba protect the hand and balance the sword. In the Edo period when samurai… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| tsubai bussho 椿井仏所 | Also written 津波井仏所. A guild of Buddhist sculptors *busshi 仏師 active in Nara *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| tsubanomi 鐔鑿 | Lit. "sword-guard chisel." The chisel used to make the hole needed to drive a Japanese nail wakugi 和釘 into a piece… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| tsubo 坪 | A unit of measurement still in use to ascertain the area of land, a building, a room, etc. It is roughly 182 cm x 182 cm (6… |
Architecture, Measurement | |
| tsubokanamono 壷金物 | 1 Metal fittings for a door. One is attached to the side of the door frame closest to the pillar or post.… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tsubosama 坪狭間 | Also written 壷狭間. Large bamboo stalks that are cut in section, painted and placed in outer castle walls and in the walls of… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| tsuchi 槌 | A hammer or mallet. Tsuchi are subdivided into various types according to its use. The *… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| tsuchibisashi 土廂 | ✓ | Also called sutebisashi 捨廂. A pent roof with its under structure exposed that extends above a hardpacked earthen… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| tsuchido 土戸 | 1 In the Heian and Kamakura periods, a gate in a pise mud wall *tsuiji… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Storehouses | |
| Tsuchigumo 土蜘蛛 | Lit. "giant ground spider." A demon in popular literature and art known for its battle with the early 11th-century warrior… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tsuchikabe 土壁 | ✓ | Also called komaikabe 小舞壁. A wattle and daub wall made of coarse mud plaster, ara-nuri 荒塗, usually mixed… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tsuchikaburi 土被 | ✓ | 1 The parts of structural members that are hidden beneath ground level. |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tsuchimon 土門 | A roofless gate set in an earthen wall. At Kyoto Gosho 京都御所, there are two such gates: the Upper East Gate, Jōtōmon 上東門, and… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| tsuchitenjō 土天井 | A ceiling with a clay or mud plaster coating. Used in tea ceremony house *chashitsu… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| tsūen 通円 | Also 通圓. A mask of an old man, used in the kyōgen 狂言 play Tsūen (The Tea Priest, Tsūen… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| tsugi-ita つぎ板 | An *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 woodblock printing technique used in cases where… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tsugigami 継紙 | A method of paper decoration *ryōshi sōshoku 料紙装飾. Two or more… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tsugite 継手 | ✓ | Also written 接手. |
Architecture, Joints |
| tsuifuku 対幅 | A general term for hanging scrolls *kakemono 掛物 that make a… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tsuiji mendo 築地面戸 | ✓ | The gap between the flat ridge tile *noshigawara 熨斗瓦, and the coping… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tsuiji 築地 | ✓ | Also called tsuijibei 築地塀; tsuigaki 築垣 or 築墻. A formal style fence made by pounding a mixture of mud and… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tsuitate shōji 衝立障子 | ✓ | A partitioning screen. Sometimes an opaque panel screen *fusuma 襖 or sometimes… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tsuji 辻 | 1 A crossroads or intersection of two roads. See *zushi… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsuji-umadashi 辻馬出 | An intersection barrier. A single barrier that is constructed to defend two entrances to a castle that have been constructed… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| tsujidō 辻堂 | Lit. "cross roads hall." A small Buddhist structure erected at the main intersection of a village, along a village road, or… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| tsujigahanazome 辻が花染 | Lit. "flowers at the crossing dyeing." A Muromachi period hybrid, decorative textile technique of combining tie-dyeing and… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| tsujiura-e 辻占絵 | A woodblock-printed fortune with pictures which was sold on street corners *tsuji … |
Art History, Painting | |
| tsuka-ishi 束石 | ✓ | A wide rectangular stone strut about 2/3 the width of the stone panels *hame-ishi… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tsuka 束 | ✓ | Also written 短束. Tsuka-no-ma 束の間 is a synonym for tsuka. An abbreviated form for tsukabashira 束柱… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tsukabumi 束踏 | 1 An alternative term for the base ridge *jimune 地棟. The base… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsukami 掴 | ✓ | Also hirakasugai 平鎹. Wood or metal cleats used to secure and strengthen the junction of the two sides of bargeboard… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tsukebashira 付柱 | Also kobashira 小柱 or shoinbashira 書院柱. A post placed at the exterior corner of the alcove that… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| tsukedoko 付床 | A wooden platform, about 95 cm x 45 cm, attached to a wall to form a type of alcove which has no ceiling or extended wall… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| tsukejiro 付城 | 1 A fortification built as a staging camp from which to attack an enemy's castle… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| tsukemen kurigata 付け面繰形 | Lit. "attached surface molding." An incised or molded decoration *kurigata 繰形… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| tsūken 通肩 | An abbreviation of tsūryō kenpō 通両肩法. A style of wearing a Buddhist robe covering both shoulders. The robe… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| tsukenoshi 附熨斗 | ✓ | Boards or tiles, tsukenoshi, set above and below the thick boards *aori-ita… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tsuketate 付立 | A type of *mokkotsu 没骨 technique. Tsuketate does not… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tsuki-no-ji kuzushi 月の字崩 | A geometrical pattern based on the character 月, tsuki (moon), and found on transoms *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| tsukiagedo 突上戸 | ✓ | Also tsurido, 釣戸 or 吊戸. A door or window that is hinged along the top. It swings out from the bottom, and is held… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tsukiagemado 突上窓 | ✓ | Also written 突揚窓. A skylight built into the sloping ceiling *kakekomi tenjō… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| tsukidomemizo 突止溝 | The track grooves on a head jamb *kamoi 鴨居 and sill *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tsukimi yagura 月見櫓 | ✓ | A moon viewing tower of the *yagura 櫓 type found at a number of castles. Also… |
Architecture, Castles |
| tsukinami-e 月次絵 | Pictures depicting activities associated with the months of the year, representing one of the most important categories of… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tsukinomi 突鑿 | A paring chisel that shaves a timber entirely by hand pressure. Chisels called *tatakinomi… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| tsukitsuke 突付 | A simple, basic butt joint. To butt two or more cut timbers end to end. The joint is called dōzuki 胴付 when a cut… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| Tsukiyama teizōden 築山庭造伝 | Lit. "Commentary on Landscape Gardens." |
Architecture, Gardens, Document | |
| tsukiyama 築山 | The older term is *kasan 仮山. Lit. "constructed mountain."… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| tsukkake 突っ掛 | A term used by the makers of *tatami 畳 mats to refer to the binding on the long sides of … |
Architecture, Accessories | |
| tsukubai 蹲踞 | ✓ | Lit. "stooping basin." A low wash basin used in a tea garden. One has to stoop down to use the basin, hence the name. Before… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
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