| 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 | |
| Ya-no-ne 矢の根 | A pictorial subject taken from Arrowhead, the play from the *kabuki… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Yadorigi 宿木 | ✓ | A pictorial subject taken from "Yadorigi" ("The Ivy"), Chapter 49 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of Genji… |
Art History, Painting, Document |
| yaegaki 八重垣 | Lit. "eightfold fence." A type of double-screen sleeve fence *sodegaki 袖垣 in… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| yagenbori 薬研堀 | A widely used moat with sides that slope like an earthen embankment. The name is derived from the moat having a bottom with… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yagura kemudashi 櫓煙出 | ✓ | Also written 櫓烟出. Also read yagura kemuridashi. An opening constructed in a thatched roof to allow the escape of… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yagura 櫓 | ✓ | A guard tower set atop the corners of a castle's stone wall and other strategic positions overlooking the surrounding area.… |
Architecture, Castles |
| yaguramon 櫓門 | ✓ | Also called a watari yaguramon 渡櫓門 or just *watari yagura 渡櫓. A… |
Architecture, Gates |
| yaguramono 櫓物 | The largest sized roof tile used to connect the turret corridors *watari yagura… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| yaguranuki 櫓貫 | Commonly double-penetrating, diagonally placed beams that connect the main post *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yakan 野干 | A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a small Chinese fox. Its thin-lipped, slightly… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| yakata tenjō 屋形天井 | 1 A ceiling with the same pitch as the roof. Really, an exposed ceiling *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yakatajiro 館城 | Also written 屋形城. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yakifude 焼筆 | Lit. "burned brush." A wooden stick with a burned tip. Like charcoal used in western style painting, yakifude is… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yakimono-no-tō 焼物の塔 | A bisque ware or unglazed pagoda. Plain, unglazed small pagodas are called deitō 泥塔, meaning mud pagodas.… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| yaku-ishi 役石 | ✓ | Also kaname-ishi 要石. Rocks and stones which in a tea garden *roji 露地… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| yakuba 役場 | 1 The parts of a stone wall such as exterior corners, top surfaces, or openings for drainage where… |
Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings | |
| yakuboku 役木 | Also read yakugi. The allocation of shrubbery in a garden, particularly applied to trees which set the mood of a… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| yakueda 役枝 | Lit. "roles of branches." The branches of a flower or tree that are given a name based on their "role" in the structure of… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| yakugawara 役瓦 | A generic term for all types of roof tiles which serve a special purpose. These tiles include: sleeve tiles *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| yakuimon 薬医門 | ✓ | A gate with a gable roof constructed with two square or rectangular main posts and two square or circular secondary posts *… |
Architecture, Gates |
| yakuko 薬壷 | A medicine jar, found on the palm of the left hand in figures of *Yakushi 薬師, the… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| yakusha-e 役者絵 | A type of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 print which shows one or several actors in a stage pose or… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yakusha ehon 役者絵本 | Lit. "picture books illustrating actors." Books that bound together actor prints, but also included theater and stage scenes… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yakusha hyōbanki 役者評判記 | Printed books criticizing actors' skills. Theater reviews were not published in booklet form until 1656 with Yakusha-no-… |
Art History, Painting, Document | |
| Yakushi keka 薬師悔過 | Keka 悔過 is a term used in Buddhism meaning repentance of one's sins, and refers to the chanting of prayers to… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Yakushi 薬師 | The name of the Buddha associated with healing. Sino-Japanese rendering of Sanskrit Bhaisajyaguru, meaning "Medicine Master… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| yakushidō 薬師堂 | ✓ | A Buddhist temple hall housing a statue of *Yakushi 薬師 (Sk: Bhaisajyaguru), the Buddha… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| Yakuzan Rikō 薬山・李翱 | Ch: Yaoshan Li'ao. A Zen 禅 painting subject depicting the philosophical debate between the Tang dynasty hermit-priest… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Yakuzan shuchū no shu wo iru 薬山射麈中麈 | Ch: Yaoshan she chenzhongchen; lit. "Yakusan's Shooting of the Great King of the Big Deers." A Zen 禅 (Ch: Chan)… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yama-ai 山藍 | Lit. "mountain indigo." Perennial plant 30-40 cm high, Mercurialis leiocarpa Sieb. et zuc., used to make a blue dye… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yama-ishi 山石 | Lit. "mountain stone." A generic name for stones found or quarried in the mountains. Unlike sea stones *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| Yamagoe no Amida 山越阿弥陀 | Also read Yamagoshi no Amida; Amida yamagoe (yamagoshi) raigō 阿弥陀山越来迎. Lit. "Amida… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| yamajiro-no-koguchi 山城の虎口 | A mountain castle entrance. The entrance *koguchi 虎口 of a mountain… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yamajiro 山城 | ✓ | Lit. "mountain castle." A castle built on a mountain to take advantage of the mountain's topography. One of the three main… |
Architecture, Castles |
| yamame uchikomizumi 山目打込積み | Lit. "mountain eye pounding and inserting piling." A dry construction method used to pile stones for a stone wall *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yamamichi katō 山道火灯 | A window used especially in the Zen style *zenshūyō 禅宗様; a type of ogival… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yamamomo 山桃 | Also written 楊梅樹. A brown vegetable dye senryō 染料 obtained from the evergreen tree Myrica rubra,… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yamato 大和 | ✓ | 1 An abbreviation for yamatouchi-no-to 大和打の戸 or yamatouchi 大和打. A door that has vertical… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yamato-e shiki teien 大和絵式庭園 | Lit. "gardens in the style of Japanese painting." Also called sakuteikiryū 作庭記流 (gardens in the lineage of the… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| yamato-e やまと絵 | Also written 大和絵 and 倭絵. A widely used description term which has carried various nuances in different periods, but… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yamato hyōgu 大和表具 | The most commonly used style of mounting hanging scrolls *kakemono 掛物 in… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yamatobei 大和塀 | ✓ | A fence made of widths of bleached bamboo spaced about 45 cm apart and held in place by bark. This type of fence is used in… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| yamatobuki 大和葺 | ✓ | 1 A type of board roofing made by first spacing boards of equal width at predetermined intervals and then… |
Architecture, General Terms, Tea Houses |
| yamatokaki 大和掻 | A type of bamboo lattice entwined with wisteria vine set in a window opening *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| yamatomune 大和棟 | An alternative term for a roof style found on Edo period farmhouses nōka 農家, called *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| yamatotoji 大和綴 | ✓ | Also musubitoji 結び綴じ, lit. "knot-binding." The simplest style of book-binding, and usually a type of pouch-binding… |
Art History, Painting |
| Yamauba 山姥 | Also read Yamanba. Oni-onna 鬼女 (demonic woman) or yama-onna 山女 (mountain woman) are used occasionally.… |
Art History, Painting, Sculpture | |
| yanagidana 柳棚 | Lit. "willow shelf." An asymmetrical arrangement of three decorative shelves tokowakidana 床脇棚 arranged in the… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| yanagikugi 柳釘 | Also yanagikakekugi 柳掛け釘. A nail hammered into a partially plastered post yanagibashira 柳柱 (see *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| yanakadake 屋中竹 | Also yamadake 屋間竹. The bamboo purlins, about 20-30 cm in circumference, that are placed about 30-36 cm apart over a… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| yane-ita 屋根板 | A generic name for various types of roofing boards including *noji-ita… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yane kōzō 屋根構造 | ✓ | The construction of the roof framework or roof truss over the body of a building. The essential framing for a gable roof *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yane 屋根 | ✓ | Also called okugai 屋蓋, lit. "roof covering." A generic term for various types of roofs, roof styles, and roofing.… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yanebuki 屋根葺 | Roofing or roof covering. The most commonly used types of roofing are clay tiles *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yanegae 屋根替 | Rethatching, retiling, or reshingling a roof whereby old roofing is replaced with new roofing. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yanekugi 屋根釘 | Also kobanekugi 小羽根釘. Small round bamboo roofing nails, with a diameter between 2.1 to 2.8 mm and a length from 50… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yaneura 屋根裏 | 1 See *keshō yaneura 化粧屋根裏. 2 An… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yaraiko 矢来子 | The framing members of a fence. They may be vertical, horizontal, diagonal, or arranged to form squares or lozenges. A variety… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| yareigeta 破井桁 | ✓ | Lit. "broken well crib." Also yabureigeta. A design used for muntins *kumiko… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yariganna 槍鉋 | A plane thought to have been the only plane employed in ancient times to pare and finish timber. Today carpenters do not use… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| yarimizu 遣水 | ✓ | Lit. "water course." An archaic term for a shallow, curving garden stream. The term, found in the 11th-century garden manual… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| yarisama 鑓狭間 | A loophole for thrusting pikes and spears. Typically, they are installed in narrow locations beside main castle entrances… |
Architecture, Castles |
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