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Displaying 201 - 300 of 596
Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
Haku Ga Shō Shiki 伯牙鍾子期

Ch: Bo Ya Zhong Ziqi. A pictorial theme of friendship in Chinese painting. When the Zhou dynasty musician Bo Ya (Jp: …

Art History, Painting
Haku Raku soba 伯楽粗馬

Lit. Be Le assessing a horse. A Chinese painting subject of the 4th century horse trainer named Be Le (Jp: Haku Raku…

Art History, Painting
Haku Rakuten 白楽天

Ch: Bai Letian (772-846). A Chinese poet of the mid-Tang dynasty, depicted in a tradition of imaginary portrait paintings.…

Art History, Painting
hakubyō 白描

Although the term literally means white drawing, hakubyō 白描 is a technique of painting that relies primarily on the…

Art History, Painting
hakudo 白土

Kaolin. Also todo とど. A fine soft white clay produced by the decomposition of other clays feldspar. Hakudo…

Art History, Painting
hakuga 帛画

Painting on silk. In ancient China, before paper-making was developed, silk or haku (also called so 繪) was…

Art History, Painting
Hakuhō jidai 白鳳時代

The Hakuhō period (645-710) referred to in recent scholarship as the Late Asuka period, Asuka jidai kōki 飛鳥時代後期.…

Art History, General Terms
Hakui Shukusei 伯夷叔斉

Ch: Boyi Shuqi. Brothers who lived during the late Shang - early Zhou dynasties, who were praised by Confucius for declining…

Art History, Painting
hakuoshi 箔押

Also hakuire 箔入れ, hakuoki 箔置き. Making a design by stitching gold, silver, or colored foil with glue onto…

Art History, Sculpture
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
hakushi 薄師

An artist who applies gold or silver leaf *shippaku 漆箔 to the surface of a…

Art History, Sculpture
Hamagurimon 蛤門 ✓

Lit. clam gate. One of the four gates on the westside of the outer enclosure of Kyoto Gosho 京都御所. Altogether there were nine…

Architecture, Gates
hamamatsu-zu 浜松図

Paintings of a flat, undulatory sandy beach or sand spit with windswept pines, a traditional theme of *…

Art History, Painting
hamayuka 浜床

Also called *chōdai 帳台 in the Heian period.


1 A low…

Architecture, General Terms
hame-ishi 羽目石

Also written 嵌石. A stone panel. A component of the formal style podium *danjōzumi…

Architecture, General Terms
hame-ita 羽目板

Also written 嵌板. A wooden panel or board used as wall covering. It may be horizontally or vertically set. The boards may…

Architecture, General Terms
hamegi 嵌め木

A plug used in *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 woodblock printmaking for making corrections or…

Art History, Painting
hamontai 波文帯 Also called a zigzag motif *inazumamon 稲妻文 or a saw tooth pattern *… Architecture, Roofing Tiles
han-nageshi 半長押 ✓

Lit. half non-penetrating horizontal beam. A non-penetrating beam which is 3/5 the diameter of a building 's main pillar…

Architecture, General Terms
han-noshigawara 半熨斗瓦

Rectangular ridge tiles with half the width of an ordinary ridge tile *noshigawara…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
Han Rō 潘閬

Ch: Pan Lang. Chinese Zhou dynasty recluse, originally a retainer of King Mu (Ch: Muwang; Jp: Bokuō 穆王, ca. 1001-972 BC).…

Art History, Painting
hana-akarimado 花明窓

Also kameimado, *oribemado 織部窓, *…

Architecture, General Terms
hana 鼻 ✓

Lit. nose. Also called hanasaki 鼻先. The end or tip of a structural member such as a beam, rafter end, ridge end,…

Architecture, General Terms
Hana no en 花宴 ✓

Pictorial Subject matter of *yamato-e やまと絵 painting. "The…

Art History, Painting
hanabishi mon'yō 花菱文様 ✓

Also hanabishimon 花菱文. Decorative patterns *mon'yō 文様, or…

Art History, Painting
Hanachirusato 花散里 ✓

A pictorial subject based on Chapter 11 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of Genji), "The Orange Blossoms" …

Art History, Painting
hanagarami 鼻絡 A relatively small tie beam placed slightly inside and under the eave ends on a board roof. It not only ties the boards… Architecture, General Terms
hanagawara 花瓦

Also hashigawara 端瓦. Lit. flower tile. An edge or border tile originally, the word came to replace the more…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hanaguri 鼻繰

A generic name for moldings *kurigata 繰形, used on the edge of bracket arms *…

Architecture, Decorations
hanahijiki 花肘木 ✓

Lit. flower bracket arm. A decorative bracket arm *hijiki 肘木 that appeared in…

Architecture, General Terms
hanahiragawara 端平瓦

A broad, concave end tile that alternates with an eave end semi-circular tile surmounted with a circular pendant *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hanaikada 花筏

Lit. flower raft. A decorative, floral pattern popular in the Momoyama period. The design is said to be derived from a…

Architecture, Decorations
hanaire 花入

A container for displaying flowers, or a flower vase. Generally, there are three types found in tea ceremony rooms *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hanakakushi-ita 鼻隠板 ✓

A fascia board. A board nailed flat against the rafter ends, characteristic of the daibutsu style *…

Architecture, General Terms
hanakobu akujō 鼻瘤悪尉

Bumpynosed fierce old man. A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a…

Art History, Sculpture
hanakugi 花釘 ✓

A nail used to hang a flower vase in a tea ceremonyroom *chashitsu 茶室. Some…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hanakuidorimon 花喰鳥文

A pattern that features flying birds grasping flowers or small branches in their beaks. The design may feature phoenixes,…

Art History, Painting
hanakumiko 花組子

Also hanako 花子. Decorative petal-shaped muntins found on doors *shōji…

Architecture, Decorations
hanamarugawara 端丸瓦

An old name for semi circular eave end tiles *nokimarugawara 軒丸瓦. Also…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hanamarunoko 鼻丸鋸

Also known as anahikinoko 穴挽鋸. A round-nose roughing saw. The name is derived from the shape of the top of the…

Architecture, Tools
hanamashi 鼻増

Also sorimashi 反増; terimashi 照増. The gradual increase in height toward the ends of rafters *…

Architecture, General Terms
hanamichi 花道

Lit.flower path. A long elevated walkway on the left side of a *kabuki…

Architecture, General Terms
hanamoya 鼻母屋

Pole plates. Horizontal members that are positioned on the outer end of raking beams *…

Architecture, General Terms
hanaranma 花欄間

Also called hanasama ranma 花狭間欄間 or *hanazama 花狭間. A…

Architecture, Decorations
hanashibon 噺本

Also written 咄本 or 話本. Lit. storybooks. Collections of humorous short stories and anecdotes popular during the Edo period.…

Art History, Painting
hanasogawara はなそ瓦 ✓

A semi-circular convex tile with a pendant *gatō 瓦当, attached to…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hanazama 花狭間 ✓

Also hanasama.



1 A type of foliate panel *…

Architecture, Decorations
hanbashira 半柱

Lit. half column. Also katabutabashira 片蓋柱 (half-covered pillar). The half visible column on the exterior or…

Architecture, General Terms
hanchiku 版築

Also read banchiku. A method of making the core of a podium *danjōzumi…

Architecture, General Terms
Handaza 吐田座

One of the painting guilds or studios za 座 in the atelier *nanto-edokoro…

Art History, Painting
hanebashi 桔橋

Also written 刎橋. A draw bridge. A bridge that has a metal hinge attached to the castle side and a rope attached to the the…

Architecture, Castles
hanedashi nikai はね出し二階 ✓

A jettied upper floor projecting beyond the plane of the line of posts defining the limit of the lower part of a town house…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
hanegi 桔木

A cantilever. A heavy, rough member used in a hidden roof *noyane …

Architecture, General Terms
hanegimakura 桔木枕

Lit. a cantilever pillow. A transverse beam supported by the eave purlin *dashigeta…

Architecture, General Terms
hanegiosae 桔木押

A beam running at a right angle to the cantilevers *hanegi 桔木, used in a hidden…

Architecture, General Terms
hangan 半眼 Half-open eyes. The eyes of the Buddha, narrowed when he concentrates in meditation.
Art History, Sculpture
hangata 判型

The standard size of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 prints. Print sizes are given in the…

Art History, Painting
hangi 版木

Also called ita 板. The wood used for the curved blocks which make woodblock prints *…

Art History, Painting
hanji-e 判じ絵

A print based on a rebus. A collection of images that might suggest a place name, the name of a courtesan, or a phrase from…

Art History, Painting
hanjōroku 半丈六

Lit. half *jōroku 丈六. A measure of height for a Buddhist statue. Eight …

Art History, Sculpture
hanka fuza 半跏趺坐

Also hanka 半跏, hankaza 半跏坐, hanfuza 半趺坐, daibosatsuza 大菩薩坐, and bosatsuza 菩薩坐.…

Art History, Sculpture
hankirizuma-zukuri 半切妻造 ✓

Also called hakamagoshi yane 袴腰屋根, or kabutoyane 兜屋根. A style of roof similar to the hipped roof *…

General Terms, Architecture
hankōran 半高欄

A simple style of balustrade placed around a low, step-like veranda *hamayuka…

Architecture, General Terms
hanmasugata 半桝形

A type of protective box-shaped enclosure *masugata 桝形, found at a castle…

Architecture, Castles
hanme 半目

Also called hankirime 半切目. Wale next to the binding of a straw mat *tatami…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hanmekiri 半目切

Also called *hanme 半目; kogirime 小切目. The partially exposed wale next to…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hannya 般若

A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a female serpent-demon filled…

Art History, Sculpture
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
hanpi 半臂

Lit. half arm. A sleeveless short undergarment for aristocratic men. From the Nara through the early Heian periods, …

Art History, Crafts
hanpon 版本

Also written 板本.



1 Also kanpon 刊本. A printed book of any type.



…

Art History, Painting
hansetsu 半切

Also written 半折 and 半截. A size of paper obtained when full-size paper *zenshi…

Art History, Painting
hanshi 半紙

Also written 判紙. A small-sized paper, approximately 25 cm by 35 cm. Being a convenient size for a variety of documents, …

Art History, Painting
hanshige daruki 半繁垂木

The distance between two rafters of this type is equal to the sum of the height of a rafter plus the width of its bottom…

Architecture, General Terms
hanshita 版下

Abbreviation of hanshita-e 版下絵. The final master drawing or design which was used by an artist or his workshop to…

Art History, Painting
hanshōji 半障子

A sliding screen made of a light wooden frame covered with translucent paper. It is about 1 m-1.3 m high. 1.3 m hanshōji…

Architecture, General Terms
hanshōjibusuma 半障子襖

Also called han-akarishōji 半明障子. A pair of sliding screens with a lattice frame covered with translucent paper *…

Architecture, General Terms
hara 腹

Lit. belly. The concave underside, of a curved beam, for example, a curved transverse beam *…

Architecture, General Terms
haraidono 祓殿

Lit. purification hall. Also read haraedono. Also haraidokoro 祓所. A hall where Shinto priests or lay…

Architecture, Shrines
harakugi 腹釘 Nails driven into the sides of a board that is parallel to its edges in order to stabilize it.
Architecture, General Terms
hari 梁 ✓

A transverse or cross beam positioned at a right angle to a roof ridge. It stretches the width of a building to receive the…

Architecture, General Terms
haribako-e 貼箱絵

Pictures on paper pasted onto small boxes and prized by women and girls in the early 18th century. Most of the pictures were…

Art History, Painting
haribasami 梁挟

Also called haritsunagi 梁繋. Tie beams that run parallel to the roof ridge. One is positioned across the upper…

Architecture, General Terms
harichigae tenjō 張違天井

A ceiling which is embellished with wooden squares of different kinds placed in a checker-board pattern. The ribs of a…

Architecture, General Terms
harigawara 張瓦 Also written 貼瓦. Also called haritsukegawara 張付瓦 or 貼付瓦. Tiles applied to a wall.
Architecture, Roofing Tiles
harigedai 貼外題

A strip of paper encircling the outside cover *hyōshi 表紙 of a book, on which…

Art History, Painting
harigumi 梁組

Also called kōka 構架. The beam system of a roof.
 

Architecture, General Terms
hariita tenjō 張板天井

A plain board ceiling. When paper or silk are pasted over the ceiling boards for decorative purposes, the ceiling is called…

Architecture, General Terms
harima 梁間

Also referred to as *hariyuki 梁行; also written 張り間.…

Architecture, General Terms
harimaze-e 張交絵

Also written 貼交絵. Prints of two or more subjects on a single page. Most common are colored paper shapes, poem-card *…

Art History, Painting
haritsuke-e 貼付絵

Also haritsukega 貼付画. Abbreviation of kabe haritsuke-e 壁貼付絵. Paintings on paper (or infrequently on silk)…

Art History, Painting
hariwaku 張枠

A thin (1.5 cm+), flat wooden frame glued to silk to stabilize it while it is being painted *…

Art History, Painting
hariyuki 梁行

Transverse beams that run at right angles to lengthwise beams. In Japanese architecture hariyuki usually run the…

Architecture, General Terms
hasami shikii kamoi 挟敷居鴨居

The threshold and head jamb used for a single sliding door at the guest's entrance *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
Hasegawa-ha 長谷川派

A school of painters active in the 16th century and the 17th century, founded by Hasegawa Tōhaku 長谷川等伯 (1539-1610) who is…

Art History, Painting
hashi 階

Also read kizahashi, kidahashi. Lit. a step, stair, stairway, staircase. Hashi is used to refer…

Architecture, General Terms
hashibami 端喰 ✓

Also written hashibame 端嵌. Narrow long strips of wood made to cover the top and bottom of doors composed of several…

Architecture, General Terms
hashibasami-ishi 橋挟石 ✓ Lit. bridge-anchoring stones. The stones placed at the four corners of a stone bridge ishibashi 石橋. Also called the… Architecture, Gardens
hashidono 橋殿 ✓

Lit. bridge building. A wooden structure (3 × 4 bays) built over a stream. It is closely related to the kaguraden…

Architecture, Shrines
Hashihime 橋姫 ✓

1 A pictorial subject based on "The Lady at the Bridge" Hashihime, Chapter 45 of Genji…

Art History, Painting, Sculpture
hashikakushi 階隠

1 A pent roof built above the stairs on one side of the annex tai-no-ya 対の屋 in aristocratic style…

Architecture, General Terms

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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