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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
yatsushi torikabuto 省鳥兜

A type of decorated beam *kibana 木鼻 which is a simplified version of Japanese…

Architecture, Decorations
yōraku 瓔珞

1 A string of beads or lacework used to decorate Buddhist statues and objects. Often found on Bodhisattva…

Art History, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorations
yu-engata 油煙形 ✓

Also kōmorigata 蝙蝠形. A decorative pattern similar to the shapes found on a foliate-panel, shape *…

Architecture, Decorations
yuiwata gegyo 結綿懸魚 ✓

A type of gable pendant *gegyo 懸魚, decorated with a sculpture resembling a floss…

Architecture, Decorations
yuiwata 結綿 ✓

1 Also *watabana 綿花, *…

Architecture, Decorations
yuiwatagashira 結綿頭

Also gyakurengashira 逆蓮頭. A type of carved decoration found on the tops of newel posts *…

Architecture, Decorations
yumimayu 弓眉 ✓

A type of carved molding found on the lower edges of rainbow beams *kōryō …

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