| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| dōbari 胴張 | ✓ | Entasis. The bulge in the center of a circular pillar to make it appear straight. In Japan, circular pillars called *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| dobashi 土橋 | 1 Lit. earthen bridge. An earthen bridge, which is made by leaving an unexcavated section of moat in front… |
Architecture, Castles, Gardens | |
| dobei 土塀 | Also read tsuchibei. Also called *tsuiji 築地. An earthen wall or… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| dōbō 動貌 | The movable face plate. The most elaborate gimmick used on the bugaku mask, *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| dōbori 胴彫 | Lit. body carving. The carver of woodblocks for *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 prints who was… |
Art History, Painting | |
| dōbōshū 同朋衆 | A title of artistic or cultural advisors in the Ashikaga 足利 shogunate, established about the time of Yosimitsu 義満 (1358-1408… |
Art History, Painting | |
| dōbuchi 胴縁 | 1a.) Furring strips made of thin wood or bamboo that are nailed horizontally to posts to form the base for… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| dodai 土台 | A sill, ground sill, or footplate. Generally the heavy timber members laid horizontally at the base of a wooden building… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| dodomezan 土留桟 | Also called tsuchidomesan. Narrow timber strips nailed horizontally to roof sheathing, *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| dōfuku 胴服 | A man's hip-length jacket, generally worn over other clothing or armor by high-ranking samurai 侍 from the late… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| dōgan 動眼 | Rotating eyes, a gimmick used for many bugaku masks, *bugakumen 舞楽面… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| dōgu-datami 道具畳 | Lit. implement mat. The straw mat, *tatami 畳, on which the host sits when he… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| doi 土居 | Also dorui 土塁. An earthen embankment, earthwork, or rampart. A defensive embankment surrounding a castle or a… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| doibuki 土居葺 | 1 Generally a base for tile roofing, *kawarabuki 瓦葺. A… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| doijiki 土居敷 | The foundation bed, shiki 敷, of an earthen embankment, *doi 土居. It has… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| doinuri 土居塗 | The process of spreading clay on the prepared surface of a roof in order to lay roof tiles, *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| dōji 童子 | Lit. child, young boy. |
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 | |
| dōjime 胴締 | The decorated 'belts' around the upper, middle, and lower circumference of the stem, sao 竿, of a lantern. |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| dōjiseki 童子石 | Lit. guardian boy's stones. Two symbolic garden stones (see *yakuishi 役石）… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Dōjōji 道成寺 | A temple of the Tendai 天台 sect in Hidaka 日高, Wakayama Prefecture. The setting of a dramatic old Japanese tale first recorded… |
Art History, Painting | |
| dokkohozo 独鈷ほぞ | Also called hikidokko 引独鈷; hikidokko ari 引独鈷蟻. One type of *… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| dōko 洞庫 | Also written 洞戸, 道幸, 道古, 堂庫、or 道籠. A storage space for utensils used for the tea ceremony. The earliest type was probably a… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| dokuritsu tenshu 独立天守 | ✓ | Lit. independent donjon or keep. Also called dokuritsushiki tenshu 独立式天守, dokuritsu tenshukaku 独立天守閣. A… |
Architecture, Castles |
| dokuritsubashira 独立柱 | Independent post. An internal freestanding post, *hashira 柱, not attached to… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| dōkyōshiki teien 道教式庭園 | Lit. Daoist-style gardens. A general term designating gardens which incorporated Chinese Daoist ideas or motifs. The Daoist… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| doma 土間 | 1 Alternatively called *niwa 庭 or dōji どうじ. An area… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| domon 土文 | Decorative drapery used on statues in the Kamakura region from the late Kamakura period. The drapery was made in clay relief… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| donsu 緞子 | Also written 純子. Patterned damask weave. A thick and glossy silk variety of shusu 繻子 (satin), with the design made… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| doro-e 泥絵 | Any painting produced with a type of thick, opaque paint made from inexpensive pigment and the white pigment, *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| doroji 泥地 | A technique where a mixture of animal glue, *nikawa 膠, and powdered burnt clay… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| dōsa 礬水 | Also 礬沙, 陶砂. Sizing. Dōsa is made by dissolving animal glue, *nikawa 膠… |
Art History, Painting | |
| dōsan 胴桟 | Also written dōzuri 胴摺. The widest horizontal stile in the door of *heijūmon… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| dōshakuga 道釈画 | Lit. Daoist Buddhist paintings. A genre of painting on Daoist (Taoist; Jp: Dōkyō 道教) and Buddhist (shaku 釈 from *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| 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 | |
| dote 土手 | 1 The flat top of an embankment, *doi 土居, also called *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| dotō 土塔 | Also called tsuchi-no-tō 土の塔 or dantō 段塔. Lit. earthen pagoda. Dantō means stepped pagoda. A… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| dotome-ita 土留板 | Also read dodome-ita, and called *seki-ita 堰板. The sheathing boards… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| dōtsukinoko 胴付鋸 | ✓ | Lit. saw with attached spine. A tenon or back saw. A saw designed especially to cut the shoulder of a tenon. The blade is… |
Architecture, Tools |
| doza 土座 | 1 A type of floor found in vernacular houses, *minka 民家, used… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| dōzashi 胴差 | A large, heavy horizontal timber attached to the tops of posts, *hashira 柱,… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| dōzō 銅造 | Bronze work. Bronze casting has been very important in Japan since ancient times, and was used for Yayoi period dōtaku… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| dozō 土蔵 | A form of storehouse which provided a fireproof place to keep valuables which were otherwise always at risk in highly… |
Architecture, Storehouses | |
| dozō-zukuri 土蔵造 | Also referred to as *kura-zukuri 蔵造. A fireproof building construction… |
Architecture, Storehouses | |
| hachi 鉢 | Also hōbachi 宝鉢 (Sk: patra). A bowl used by Buddhist monks for meals, and as a begging bowl. The hachi is rounded and deep… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| 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 | |
| hachijisshu gō 八十種好 | Also read hachijū shukō, hachijū zuigyōgō 八十随形好 hachijū zuigōsō 八十随好相. The 80 auspicious bodily… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hachimae-no-ishigumi 鉢前の石組 | A washstand placed near a veranda or in the corner of an open veranda, shoin zashiki 書院座敷, or in the chief priest's… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hachimaki 鉢巻 | ✓ | The name for a thickly plastered area projecting from the wall below the eaves of a building. Used on storehouses, *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hachimaki doi 鉢巻土居 | A "headband" earthen embankment. An earthen embankment with a stone wall constructed on the upper portion. Also … |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hachiman torii 八幡鳥居 | ✓ | A pillar of the shinmei type, *shinmei torii 神明鳥居, with no… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| hachiman-zukuri 八幡造 | A style of shrine architecture characterized by a structure which from the side-view gives the impression of two separate… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| hachimonjiyabon 八文字屋本 | Refers to the books of the floating world, *ukiyo zōshi 浮世草子, published by… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hachiro 八炉 | ✓ | The eight basic ways of positioning a hearth, *ro 炉, in a tea ceremony room, *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| hachiyō 八葉 | Lit. eight leaves. Also hachiyō kanagu 八葉金具. A metal decoration carved into the shape of eight petals with a central… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| hachiyō fukuben rengemon 八葉複弁蓮華文 | A decorative stylized lotus-flower pattern, *rengemon 蓮華文, found on eaves… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| hada noshigawara 肌熨斗瓦 | 1 The second layer of tiles that is curved and set at a same angle to the first layer of tiles, … |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| hadakaniwa 裸庭 | Lit. naked or bare yard. A term for the earth-floored area, *doma 土間, in… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| haegi 延木 | Also haigi. An archaic term for *nodaruki, 野垂木 (a hidden rafter). A… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hafu kazari kanagu 破風飾金具 | Also hafu kanagu 破風金具. Decorative metal fittings, *kazari kanagu… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| hafu kojiri 破風木尻 | Also written 破風鐺, hafujiri 破風尻, or hafubana 破風鼻. The lower end of a bargeboard on a hip-and-gable… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hafu ogami 破風拝 | ✓ | Also called hafugashira, 破風頭, or hafu-no-ogami, 破風の拝. The joint between two bargeboards, hafu-ita… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hafu 破風 | Also written 搏風. Also called hafu-ita 破風板. A bargeboard. Straight or curved boards laid flat against the ridge ends… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hafugoshi 破風腰 | The center of a bargeboard, *hafu 破風, which is determined by its length. It… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| 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 | |
| hagarazai 端柄材 | Also written 羽柄材. Also called hagaramono, 端柄物, 羽柄物; or yamabikizai 山挽材. A general term for trimmed boards… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hagi 矧 | ✓ | A suffix used to describe edge joints of various types.
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Architecture, Joints |
| hagitsuke 矧付 | The joining or gluing together of parts when making a wooden statue or vessel. Originally the term meant sticking feathers… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hagiyaki 萩焼 | ✓ | Hagi ware. A general name for pottery made in the Matsumoto, 松本, area of western Hagi City, and in Nagato Fukawa, 長門深川, in… |
Art History, Crafts |
| Hahakigi 帚木 | ✓ | A pictorial subject taken from "The Broom Tree," Hahakigi, Chapter 2 of Genji Monogatari 源氏物語 (The… |
Art History, Painting |
| haibutsu 廃仏 | Lit. abolish Buddha. It was government policy during the early Meiji period to repress Buddhism in favor of Shinto which was… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| haichi-zu 配置図 | A layout drawing on a plot plan showing topography in minute detail and the position of buildings within the boundaries of a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| haiden 拝殿 | ✓ | A worship hall at a Shinto shrine, usually placed on the same axis as the offering hall, *… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| haiga 俳画 | Simple paintings which accompany and interact with the 17-syllable poetic verse called haiku, 俳句. Haiga is… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hainobe 配延 | Also hainobi 配延び or nobi 延び. A carpenters' standard term for extensions created by slopes. Example: Where the horizontal… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| haiseki 拝石 | Lit. worship stone. A type of trump stone *yaku-ishi 役石 from which one can… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| haiseki 配石 | Lit. stone arrangement. To arrange stones in consideration of their shape, color, and character. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| haitsuke daruki 配付垂木 | ✓ | Also sashidaruki 挿垂木 or 指垂木. To join rafters *taruki 垂木 which is… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hajikidake 弾竹 | Also bakuchiku-bashira 爆竹柱. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hakamagoshi 袴腰 | ✓ | 1 A trapezoidal form created on top of the posts that frame the host's entrance *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses, Structures, Buildings |
| hakamazuri-ishi 袴ずり石 | Lit. hakama 袴 brushing stone. A name for the front stone in a stone grouping arranged around a low basin *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hakarihijiki 秤肘木 | ✓ | A single bracket arm *hijiki 肘木, which is set into a large bearing block *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hake 刷毛 | A wide, multi-purpose brush made of animal hair attached to a wooden handle. Hake range in size from 3 cm to 18 cm… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hakkaku butsuden 八角仏殿 | An octagonal hall in a Buddhist temple. One or more Buddhist deities are enshrined within. The record Shizaichō… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hakkaku enden 八角円殿 | An octagonal hall. Temple records owned by Hōryūji 法隆寺 and Gangōji 元興寺 mention the existence of a hakkaku enden as… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hakkaku endō 八角円堂 | Lit. eight-sided circular. An octagonal circular hall *hakkakudō 八角堂,… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hakkakudō 八角堂 | ✓ | Also called *hakkaku endō 八角円堂. An octagonal hall. There are six… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hakkakuotoshi-no-kado 八角落の角 | ✓ | Also yatsunaka-no-korobi 八中の転. The method used to determine the incline of the main posts of a *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hakkakutō 八角塔 | ✓ | An octagonal pagoda of which there is only one in Japan. Although a plan to erect an octagonal pagoda existed at Saidaiji… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hakkei 八景 | Lit. eight views. Eight scenic spots from one geographic area specifically chosen to be treated in verse or pictures. The… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Hakkenden 八犬伝 | Lit. biographies of eight dogs. A pictorial subjectin *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 taken from… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hakkyakumon 八脚門 | ✓ | Also read yatsuashimon. Also called sangenikkomon 三間一戸門 or sangen sankomon 三間三戸門 depending upon… |
Architecture, Gates |
| hakobutsu 箱仏 | A Buddhist image contained in a box-shaped miniature shrine. Two symmetrical rectangular wings flank a main image, carved in… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hakogata jōgi 箱型定規 | Box-shaped measuring tool used when inking and marking off a pillar in order to fit the horizontal beams surrounding a… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| hakokaidan 箱階段 | ✓ | Also referred to as hakodan 箱段 and hakohashigo 箱梯子. A combined stairway and storage chest, common in town… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| hakokanagu 箱金具 | Also hakokanamono 箱金物, *makikanagu 巻金具, makikanamono 巻金物. U-strap, strap, stirrup.… | Architecture, Decorations | |
| hakomune 箱棟 | A prominent box-like ridge framed in timber astride the apex of a roof. In section it resembles a miniature building with a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hakozaki torii 筥崎鳥居 | Also called Hakozaki Hachimangū 筥崎八幡宮, Hakozaki no Miya 筥崎宮 or Hizen torii 肥前鳥居. A stone pillar type of gate characterized… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| haku 箔 | Lit. foil or leaf. Gold, silver, copper, tin, or brass pounded into a thin flat sheet and used for the decoration of art… |
Art History, Painting |
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