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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
chidori 千鳥

Plovers or (rarely) sanderlings: small birds that live in flocks near water, a popular design motif either alone or combined…

Art History, Painting
chikurin shichiken 竹林七賢 ✓

Ch: Zhulin Qixian. Lit. Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. A pictorial theme based on seven Chinese literati who, to…

Art History, Painting
chikushi 竹紙

A yellow-brown paper made in China from bamboo fibers. Commonly known in Japan as *tōshi…

Art History, Painting
chinsō 頂相 ✓

Also chinzō. Lit. head's appearance. A naturalistic portrait, sculpted or painted, of a Zen 禅 master's head.

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Art History, Painting
chirimen-e 縮緬絵

A multi-colored print which was rolled around a bar and then rubbed to give it crinkles and creases as if it had been…

Art History, Painting
Chō Karō 張果老

Ch: Zhang Guolao. Also called Tongxuan (Jp: Tsūgen 通玄). One of the Daoist, eight immortals *…

Art History, Painting
Chō Ryō・Kō Sekikō 張良・黄石公

Ch: Zhang Liang・Huang Shigong. Heroic Chinese warriors of the Han dynasty. 

Zhang Liang (BC 168-137), originally…

Art History, Painting
chōba-zu 調馬図

Lit. pictures of horse training. One theme of genre painting *fūzokuga 風俗画…

Art History, Painting
chōban 長判

Also read nagaban. Also called naga-e 長絵. Lit. long format. A size of *…

Art History, Painting
chōji 丁子

Also written 丁字. A deep yellow, dull orange, or tan colored aromatic dye senryō 染料 made from the flowers or…

Art History, Painting
chōjōfuku 長条幅

1 A hanging scroll *kakemono 掛物 that is vertically oriented…

Art History, Painting
chōka 鳥窠

Ch: Niaoke. Lit. bird's nest. A painting subject depicting the Tang dynasty eccentric priest Dōrin 道林 (Ch: Daolin), also…

Art History, Painting
chōkan zuhō 鳥瞰図法

A bird's-eye view. Also fukan zuhō 俯瞰図法 (view from above). One type of perspective popular in Japanese…

Art History, Painting
chōkō-zu 蝶幸図

Ch: diexingtu. Lit. Picture of the Butterfly of Happiness, or Picture of the Butterfly and the Emperor's Visit. A…

Art History, Painting
chokuhitsu 直筆

A painting and calligraphy technique where the brush is held perpendicular to the paper so that just the tip is used to…

Art History, Painting
choshi 楮紙

Also read kōzogami and kajigami 梶紙. Formerly called kokushi 穀紙 during the Heian period. Paper…

Art History, Painting
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
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
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
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

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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