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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
Daigensui Myōō 大元帥明王

Also Taigensui Myōō 太元帥明王. Sometimes read Daigen Myōō. In Sanskrit, Atavaka, which means lord of the forest, and which is…

Art History, Iconography
Daiitoku Myōō 大威徳明王

Lit. *myōō 明王 of great awesome virtue. A god thought so powerful as to be able to…

Art History, Iconography
Daijizaiten 大自在天

Translation of Sanskrit Mahesvara (also transliterated as Makeishura 摩醯首羅), one of the many names of Shiva, who, along with…

Art History, Iconography
Daikokuten 大黒天 ✓

Daikokuten is generally famous as a god of luck. He is most familiar in Japan as a fat, smiling figure with a big sack over…

Art History, Iconography
Dainichi 大日

Lit. Great Sun. Translation of the Sk. Mahavairocana "(Great) Illuminating One"; also translated as (Dai)Henjō (大)遍照 "(Great…

Art History, Iconography
Daruma 達磨 ✓

Sk: Bodhidharma. Ch: Damo. A semi-legendary Indian monk credited with bringing the teachings of Zen (Ch: Chan) to China.…

Art History, Iconography
dōji 童子

Lit. child, young boy.

1 A boy between 8 and 20 years old living in a Buddhist temple. He studies…

Art History, Iconography, Sculpture
Dōjikyō Mandara 童子経曼荼羅

A variety of *besson mandara 別尊曼荼羅 (a form of mandara centered…

Art History, Iconography
Dōsojin 道祖神

Also Sae-no-kami 塞の神 (also read Sai-no-kami), Dōrokujin 道陸神, and other less common names. A folk deity associated with roads…

Art History, Iconography
hachibushū 八部衆

Abbreviation of Tenryū hachibushū 天竜八部衆. Eight classes of Indian deities who were converted by *…

Art History, Iconography
hachidai dōji 八大童子

Lit. eight great youths. Eight attendants of either *Monju 文殊 or more commonly *…

Art History, Iconography
Hafuki no Amida 歯吹きの阿弥陀

Lit. *Amida, 阿弥陀, with teeth exposed. An image of a standing Amida with his…

Art History, Iconography
Hakusan mandara 白山曼荼羅

Devotional paintings of the cult of Hakusan 白山 (white mountains), a group of mountains that border Gifu, Fukui,…

Art History, Iconography
Hannya bosatsu 般若菩薩

In full Hannya-haramitsu (or Hannya-haramitta) bosatsu 般若波羅蜜(般若波羅蜜多)菩薩. A bodhisattva *…

Art History, Iconography
henge Kannon 変化観音

The transformations in which *Kannon 観音 appears in order to save sentient…

Art History, Iconography
hiten 飛天

Flying apsaras. Heavenly beings invisible to the human eye, believed to fly with superhuman power and speed. Found in Middle…

Art History, Iconography
hōkan Amida 宝冠阿弥陀

Lit. *Amida 阿弥陀 with a Jeweled Crown. A typical representation of Buddha *…

Art History, Iconography
Hokekyō hensō 法華経変相

Drawings or paintings, zu 図 depicting the doctrine and stories of the Lotus Sutra Hokekyō 法華経,…

Art History, Iconography
Hokke mandara 法華曼荼羅

Lit. Lotus Mandala. Also Hokekyō mandara 法華経曼荼羅 (mandala depiction of the Lotus Sutra), Hokekyō hōtō mandara…

Art History, Iconography
hokuto mandara 北斗曼荼羅

A variety of mandala dedicated to specific deities *besson mandara 別尊曼荼羅…

Art History, Iconography
Hōnen 法然

Commonly known as Hōnen Shōnin 法然上人 or St. Hōnen (1133-1212), founder of the Pure Land, Jōdo 浄土 sect in…

Art History, Iconography
honjibutsu 本地仏

The original Buddhist identity of a Shinto deity *kami 神. Sometime before the…

Art History, Iconography
honjō-zu 本生図

Lit. Illustrations of original lives. The original lives; honjō 本生 or honshō, or former lives of the…

Art History, Iconography
Hōrōkaku manadara 宝楼閣曼荼羅

A specific type of mandala *besson mandara 別尊曼荼羅, based on the Daihō…

Art History, Iconography
hoshi mandara 星曼荼羅


Lit. star mandara. A variety of dedicated mandala *Butsugen mandara…

Art History, Iconography
Hossō rokuso 法相六祖

Lit. Six Patriarchs of the Hossō sect. In Japan: Shin'ei 神叡 (d. 737), Genbō 玄昉 (d. 746), Zenshu 善珠 (723-97), Gyōga 行賀(729-…

Art History, Iconography
Hotei 布袋 ✓

Ch: Budai. A semi-legendary, itinerant 10th-century Buddhist monk who became a popular subject in Chinese and Japanese ink…

Art History, Iconography

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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