| 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 | |
| ibara 茨 | Also called iga いが. Lit. cusp. 1 The point where two curved lines or forms meet. The… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ibaraki 茨城 | Lit. thorn tree fortress. A simple and usually temporary fortress surrounded by thorn trees or briar bushes to defend it… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| ichi Fuji, ni taka, san nasubi 一富士二鷹三茄子 | Lit. first: Mt Fuji; second: hawks; third: eggplant. A tradition which holds that these objects, seen in order in the first… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ichi no ji kuzushi 一の字崩 | ✓ | A decorative pattern used for muntins on sliding doors *shōji 障子, and transoms*… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| ichi no ji tsunagi 一の字繋 | A decorative pattern used for muntins on sliding doors *shōji 障子 and transoms*… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| ichi no ma 一の間 | Lit. room one. The innermost and most prestigious room, six to twelve straw mats *tatami… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| ichi no mon 一の門 | The first or main gate of a castle. At Matsuyamajō 松山城 in Ehime Prefecture, the gate plan was square *… |
Architecture, Gates, Castles | |
| ichi no oni 一の鬼 | ✓ | The ogre-face tile *onigawara 鬼瓦, placed at the ends of offspring ridges *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| ichiboku kaidan 一木階段 | A ladder hewed from a single log during the Yayoi period. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ichiboku-zukuri 一木造 | Also called ichiboku chō 一木彫 or ichiboku chōsei 一木彫成. Antonym of *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Ichiji kinrin mandara 一字金輪曼荼羅 | A variety of small, decidated mandala *besson mandara 別尊曼荼羅 centered on… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| Ichiji kinrin 一字金輪 | Lit. One-Syllable Golden Wheel. Also read Ichiji konrin and also known as Kinrin Butchō 金輪仏頂 (Golden-… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| ichijōhan no seki 一畳半の席 | ✓ | Also written 一帖半の席. A very small tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室, no more… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| ichijūdana 一重棚 | ✓ | Also ichijū tsuridana 一重釣棚. A single shelf suspended by a slender bamboo pole. It is made of paulownia when it… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| ichimai biraki 一枚開 | A single window or door opening. Also, a single door or window. They may swing on hinges one way, both ways, or slide. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ichimai-e 一枚絵 | Also ichimaizuri 一枚摺. Lit. single-sheet print. A single *ukiyo-e 浮世絵… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ichimatsu 市松 | ✓ | Also ishidatami 石畳 or *ishidatamimon 石畳文, danshichi 団七… |
Art History, Painting |
| ichimon-e 一文絵 | Lit. one mon picture. A small-sized woodblock print, usually depicting a courtesan or actor, printed only in black… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ichimonji bokashi 一文字ぼかし | A printing technique for producing graduated tones (shading) on woodblock prints *ukiyo-… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ichimonji dana 一文字棚 | A term used in all parts of Japan in the Edo period, for a straight shelf *tana… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ichimonji gawara 一文字瓦 | 1 Also called ichimonji nokigawara 一文字軒瓦; ichimonji karakusagawara 一文字唐草瓦. A type of… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| ichimonji 一文字 | 1 Two strips of fabric directly above and below a painting measuring the exact width of the painting,… |
Art History, Painting, Architecture, Gardens | |
| Ichinotani kassen 一ノ谷合戦 | A pictorial subject depicting scenes from the Battle at Ichinotani, a decisive confrontation in the Genpei war Genpei… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ichirin ike 一輪生 | ✓ | A small flower vase which is just large enough for one flower stalk. Most vases of this type were made of ceramic but… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| Idaten 韋駄天 | Also written 違駄天. The Indian deity Skanda, son of Shiva and general of his army, who became a protector of the Dharma in… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| ido 井戸 | 1 A well supplying drinking water. It may be deep or narrow, depending on the depth of the water table. The… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses | |
| idoko 居所 | Shortened form of idokoro 居所. A name for rooms or spaces in the following contexts: |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| iejiro 家城 | Lit. house castle. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| igarakuri 鋳繰 | Also ikarakuri. A method of casting metal statues by joining several sections. In the case of a large statue it was… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| igayaki 伊賀焼 | Iga 伊賀 ware. A stoneware ceramic made in Iga (now Maruhashira 丸柱 village), Mie Prefecture and in a few nearby villages. The… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| igeta 井桁 | 1 A generic term for any group of structural members set in a grid pattern. 2 The… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| iji dōzu 異時同図 | ✓ | A compositional method used to show successive events within a unified background, dōzu 同図, capturing the same… |
Art History, Painting |
| ijō kōbai 居定勾配 | Also abbreviated to ijō 居定. The degree of pitch on the underside of a rafter support *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ikake 鋳掛 | Repairing a hole or crack in a metal object. There are two methods: 1) crack in a metal statue or vessel is… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| ikazuchimon いかずち文 | Lit. lightning pattern. A pattern of thick and thin zig-zag lines. A variation of raimon 雷文 (see *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| ike niwa 池庭 | Lit. pond garden. A very general term for any garden with a pond. It includes other terms such as the archaic garden pond *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| ike no kokoro 池の心 | Lit. heart of the pond. The most important part of a pond, which, may be the center, bottom, or surface. The term is… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| ikebana 生け花 | Lit. to keep flowers alive. Flower arrangements. Originated in Buddhist flower offerings kuge 供花 from the 6th… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| ikegaki 生垣 | ✓ | Lit. living fence. A type of hedge made of trees, bamboo, or other living plants planted in a row and trimmed so as to form… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| ikekomigata tōrō いけこみ形灯籠 | Also written 生込み形灯籠. A lantern which lacks a base; the stem is inserted directly into the ground. Most lanterns of this type… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| iki いき | The aesthetic ideal of the Edo merchant class during the late 18th and 19th centuries, combining material sensuality and… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| ikkaku sennin 一角仙人 | Art History, Sculpture | ||
| ikken ikka 一間一花 | ✓ | A type of decorative pattern painted on coffered ceilings *gōtenjō 格天井 or… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| ikken'ya 一軒屋 | An independently framed urban-vernacular house *machiya 町家 of a more… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| ikkensha zukuri 一間社造 | A style of main shrine building that has a small one-bay sanctuary *honden… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| ikkō sanzon 一光三尊 | A triad of Buddhist statues arranged in front of a large nimbus *kōhai 光背, that… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Ikkyū 一休 | An abbreviation of Ikkyū Zenji 一休禅師, the Zen 禅 priest Ikkyū (1394-1481) of the *… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| ikuwamon 的門 | A gate at Heijō palace, Heijōkyū 平城宮 (8th century), in Nara that no longer exists but is mentioned in Shoku Nihongi… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| Ikuzanshu 郁山主 | Ch: Yushanzhu. Lit. Master of Mt. Yu (Jp: Ikuzan 郁山). A Chinese Chan (Jp: Zen 禅) monk from Hunan (Jp: Konan 湖南)… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ima 居間 | Lit. living room. A room commonly utilized as the principal space for daily living. 1 The daily… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| imae 居前 | The correct seating position for the host when performing tea ceremony. For example, in the Urasenke 裏千家 school, a portable… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| imariyaki 伊万里焼 | ✓ | Imari ware. A general term for porcelain from the Arita 有田 region of Saga Prefecture, but not including the Kakiemon 柿右衛門… |
Art History, Crafts |
| imawaka 今若 | A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a young man of noble birth. Very similar to *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| imibiyaden 忌火屋殿 | Lit. pure fire hall. A hall for the preparation of food to be offered to the gods at Ise Jingu 伊勢神宮. The character 忌 imi… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| imotsugi 芋継 | Same meaning as imomeji 芋目地. 1 A straight-line, end-to-end blind stub tenon *… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| in no koguchi 陰の虎口 | Defensive castle entrance, or yin entrance. A generic term for various types castle entrance *… |
Architecture, Castles |
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