| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| chōnabari 釿梁 | ✓ | Transverse roof beams that span the distance from the center posts of a vernacular house with a thatched roof to the *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| chōnaguri 釿栗 | Cutting decorative patterns with an adze *chōna 釿 on chestnut wood … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| chōnahajime 釿始 | Also written 釿初, 手斧初. Also called kozukuri hajime 木造り始め or onohajime 斧始め. A carpenter's ceremony performed… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| chōnamekezuri 釿目削 | ✓ | Also called chōnahatsuri 釿斫. A decorative pattern carved into the visible surface of a timber using an adze *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| chōren 頂蓮 | Also kairen 開蓮. A lotus flower found on the head of a *Fudō Myōō … |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| chōsenshiki yamajiro 朝鮮式山城 | Lit. Korean type mountain castle. A general term for castle structures in Japan that resemble those in ancient Korea.… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| choshi 楮紙 | Also read kōzogami and kajigami 梶紙. Formerly called kokushi 穀紙 during the Heian period. Paper… |
Art History, Painting | |
| chōshitsu 彫漆 | Carved lacquer. A generic term used for many carved lacquer techniques where layers of lacquer are applied to a thickness of… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| chōshizenshugi 超自然主義 | Lit. hyper-naturalism. The idea of basing a garden, or a single element in it, on nature, but exaggerating the natural… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| Chotō 猪頭 | Ch: Zhutou. A painting subject depicting the Northern Song dynasty eccentric priest Zhimeng (J: Shimō 志蒙). He was known… |
Art History, Painting | |
| chōyō・taigetsu 朝陽・対月 | ✓ | Ch: chaoyang duiyue. A Zen painting subject depicting a priest sewing in the morning sun (Jp: chōyō … |
Art History, Painting |
| chōzu-ishi 手水石 | Lit. hand-washing stone. One of the seven trump stones *nanatsu-ishi 七つ石… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| chōzubachi 手水鉢 | Lit. hand water bowl. A water basin used to rinse the hands or as a decorative element in gardens. Usually made of stone,… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| chōzuya 手水舎 | Also written 手水屋. Also called suibansha 水盤舎 or temizuya 手水舎. Shrine or temple building for cleaning hands… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| chūban 中判 | Lit. medium-size format. A size of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 print. The term chūban… |
Art History, Painting | |
| chūberi 中縁 | A part of the mounting of a hanging scroll *kakemono 掛物. The chūberi… |
Art History, Painting | |
| chūbō 中房 | The central, circular part of a round, eave-end, pendant tile *gatō 瓦当… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| chūdai 中台 | The middle base of a lantern *tōrō 灯籠 upon which rests the flame holder and… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| chūdan 中段 | Middle area. In upper class residences especially from the Momoyama period and through the Edo period, seating was… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| chūden 中殿 | The space *ai-no-ma 相の間 between the sanctuary *… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| chūdō 中堂 | Lit. central hall. A hall situated between two Buddhist halls or a hall with corridors attached on either side. The most… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| chūhon 中本 | Lit. a middle-size book. A woodblock printed book, popular during the Edo period, which is one-half the size of a … |
Art History, Painting | |
| chūjin 中陣 | A term used in shrine architecture: a middle area between the *honden 本殿, *… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| chūjō 中将 | A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 supposedly intended to represent the 9th-century poet and… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| chūkin 鋳金 | Metal casting. A technique used in metalwork to produce vessels or sculptures by melting down metal and pouring it into a… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| chūkondō 中金堂 | Lit. middle golden hall. An image hall *kondō 金堂 located at the center of… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| chūmon 中門 | 1 Middle gate. The second or inner gate on the north-south axis of a temple compound in the ancient period… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| chūmon-zukuri 中門造り | A type of vernacular house *minka 民家, characterized by one or more wings or… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| chūmonrō 中門廊 | 1 A Heian-period corridor intersected by gates. In the most elaborate Heian-period shinden style… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| chūnikai 中二階 | ✓ | A term for a loft or attic occupying the roof space of a vernacular house *minka… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| chūsei kenchiku 中世建築 | Lit. medieval architecture. Temple and shrine buildings erected during the Kamakura, Nanbokuchō, and Muromachi periods when… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| chūshikō ganna 中仕工鉋 | A smoothing plane, used to further smooth the surface of timber after the general roughing plane *… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| 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 | |
| Chūshingura 忠臣蔵 | A pictorial subject matter taken from The Treasury of Loyal Retainers Chūshingura, an epic and well-loved story of… |
Art History, Painting | |
| chūshinseki 中心石 | Lit. center stone(s). A single stone or stone arrangement *ishigumi 石組,… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| chūson 中尊 | Also chūdai-no-son 中台の尊. The principal statue in a group of Buddhist statues. The central image in a triad or group… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| chūtō 柱頭 | A synonym for the large bearing block *daito 大斗 placed on the tops of pillars… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| chūzō 鋳造 | Also imono 鋳物. Casting. A technique used to make cast sculptural forms. The base material was heated… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| wachigaigawara 輪違瓦 | ✓ | Also tsumegawara 爪瓦. A row of narrow tile pieces cut crosswise from semi-cylindrical tiles *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| wajō 倭城 | A Japanese castle. Refers to 25 castles constructed in various regions of Korea by the Japanese forces during the Bunroku-… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| wakaba 若葉 | ✓ | 1 An abstract decorative pattern of extended curved lines based on the form of a leaf. The pattern is… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| wakamiya shinzō 若宮神像 | Lit. "Shinto image of a young prince." A generic term covering both images of a divine son of the main enshrined Shinto… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| Wakamurasaki 若紫 | ✓ | Lit. "young lavender." A pictorial subject based on "Wakamurasaki" ("Lavender"), Chapter 5 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語… |
Art History, Painting, Document |
| Wakana 若菜 | ✓ | A pictorial subject taken from "Wakana" ("New Herbs"), which is divided into two parts, making up Chapters 34 and 35 of … |
Art History, Painting, Document |
| wakaonna 若女 | Young girl. A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a young woman. The mature… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| wakaotoko 若男 | Young man. A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a young commoner with… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| wakiagari 脇上 | ✓ | The wakiagari allowed visitors to enter or leave the residence from a waiting palanquin kago 駕篭 without… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings |
| wakidana 脇棚 | ✓ | Shelves forming part of an arrangement in the space next to the decorative alcove *… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings |
| wakido 脇戸 | ✓ | A small door, usually beside the main door of a structure. Sometimes there is one on each side of the main door. |
Architecture, General Terms |
| wakiganna 脇鉋 | A plane used to smooth the sides of a groove, particularly in a doorsill or lintel, after the base plane, *… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| wakigegyo 脇懸魚 | Lit. "side gable pendant." Also *kudarigegyo 降懸魚, *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| wakihonjin 脇本陣 | A secondary *honjin 本陣, authorized by the Tokugawa 徳川 government for the… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| wakijin 脇陣 | Side sanctuary. Areas beside the main hall *hondō 本堂 of a Buddhist… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| wakikoguchi 脇虎口 | A side entrance to a castle. A small, inconspicuous entrance located on the side of a castle, in contrast with the main gate… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| wakikokabe 脇小壁 | A long, narrow, vertical wall constructed between two or more pillars, or on each side of an entrance or a window. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| wakimon 脇門 | Also read *ekimon 掖門. A side gate or a small gate on one or both sides of a… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| wakishōji 脇障子 | Wooden screens placed at the back ends of side verandas *en 縁. They… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| wakizura 脇面 | The left and right sides of a purlin *keta 桁. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| waku 枠 | A frame constructed around the perimeter of a window or doorway; the opening into which sliding panels and other structural… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| wakugi 和釘 | Also called nihon kugi 日本釘. A square nail used during and after the Kofun period. The nail was made of hand-wrought… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| wakuhijiki 枠肘木 | Two bracket arms *hijiki 肘木 positioned at right angle to one… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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 | |
| wanagi hozo 輪薙ほぞ | A tenon referred to as channeled or as fingered. It is used on king posts *shinzuka… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| wanagikomi 輪薙込 | Wanagikomi is an angle joint, also called an open mortise and tenon joint, a slip slot or finger mortise. It… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| wansen 腕釧 | A wristlet. A decorative ring *kansen 鐶釧 found on the wrists of… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| warabidegata 蕨手形 | Short for warabidegata suihotsu 蕨手形垂髪. Strands of hair *suihotsu… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| warabidemon 蕨手文 | ✓ | Also warabimon 蕨文. A design pattern which represents the bracken fern in spring when it gives out curling shoots.… |
Art History, Painting |
| warabite 蕨手 | ✓ | Also warabide. A style of ornamentation which features a curved design based on curling bracken shoots. It is found… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| warafude 藁筆 | Stiff brushes made of beaten straw. Warafude were popular with the *Kano-ha… |
Art History, Painting | |
| waraijō 笑尉 | Lit. "laughing old man." A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| waranawa 藁縄 | 1 Rope made by twisting together strands of straw. In clay statuary, the central wooden core *… |
Art History, General Terms, Architecture, Sculpture | |
| waraza 藁座 | ✓ | 1 Also called enza, maruza 円座, or ukeza kanamono 受座金物. The metal or… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| waridakebari 割竹張 | To cover or enclose with split bamboo. For example, found on the doors of a simple garden gate teimon 庭門 with a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| wariguri-ishi 割栗石 | Also called wariguri 割栗, kuri-ishi 栗石 or guri ぐり (lit. "stones crushed like chestnuts"). Rock… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| warihada 割肌 | The surface of a member that was split vertically by pounding in a wedge *kusabi… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| warihagi 割矧 | A sculpture technique used to carve a large hollow space *uchiguri… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| warihaiden 割拝殿 | ✓ | Lit. "divided worship hall." A long structure under a single roof divided in the center by a passageway *… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| warikebiki 割毛引 | Lit. "splitting gauge." The splitting gauge is used to mark thin pieces of wood along the grain so that it can be broken… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| warikubi 割首 | A wood statue technique used to join the head and body at the neck. The head and body of a Buddha statue are carved from a… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| warikusabi 割楔 | 1 An extremely strong joint that uses a blind wedge-split tenon warikusabi hozo 割楔ほぞ to join two… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| warima 割間 | The interval between the vertical slats *tateko 竪子 and horizontal… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| washi 和紙 | Handmade Japanese paper made from long natural fibers. Most commonly used fibers include mulberry kōzo 楮 (see *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| washibana akujō 鷲鼻悪尉 | Eagle-nosed fierce old man. A Noh mask *nōmen 能面, representing a… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| wata-ita 綿板 | Also called *ireko-ita 入子板. A board that connects the rails and crosspieces… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| watabana 綿花 | Also written 綿鼻. A molding *kurigata 繰形 in the shape of a silk-… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| watari yagura 渡櫓 | ✓ | 1 A connecting gallery or tower inside a square compound *masugata… |
Architecture, Castles |
| watariago 渡腮 | Also called *agokaki 腮欠, agokake 腮掛. A cogged right-angled joint… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| wayō 和様 | 1 Lit. "Japanese style architecture." The architectural techniques and styles introduced from China during… |
Architecture, General Terms, Art History | |
| wayō hijiki 和様肘木 | ✓ | A bracket arm *hijiki 肘木 that is characterized by curved surfaces on the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| wayō kōran 和様高欄 | ✓ | A railing in the wayō style *wayō 和様. The horizontal… |
Architecture, General Terms |
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