| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| kutsumaki 沓巻 | A decorative metal fitting *kanagu 金具, wound around the bottom… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kutsumon 窟門 | Also called anamon 穴門. Lit. cave gate. An arched side gate *kugurimon… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| kutsunugi-ishi 沓脱石 | ✓ | Lit. shoe-removing stone. A flat-topped stone used for taking off one's shoes before entering a *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kutsuzuri 沓摺 | ✓ | Also kutsuzuriwaku 沓摺枠. A threshold or doorsill upon which a hinged door closes snugly because the sill is a little… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| Kūya 空也 | An abbreviation of Kūya Shōnin 空也上人 or Saint Kūya (903-72), the monk responsible for the spread of Pure… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| kuyōtō 供養塔 | A memorial pagoda, for which there is no particular shape or size. Kuyōtō is an offering of worldly goods such… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kuyuza くゆ座 | Also senkuza 氈く座, kyūza 毬座, or mōsenza 毛氈座. A dais *daiza… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kuzurezumi 崩積 | A crumbling wall. A type of stone fence *ishigaki 石垣 in which stones are… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kyaku-datami 客畳 | The guest's mat in a tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室. It is usually close to… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kyaku-ishi 客石 | Lit. guest stone. A type of stepping stone *yaku-ishi 役石 placed… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kyakuden 客殿 | Lit. guest hall. A building constructed in one of three residential styles: *shoin-… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kyakuza 客座 | 1 A seat used by a guest.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| kyō-e 経絵 | 1 Lit. paintings of sutra. A painting depicting the content of Buddhist sutra, however, is usually called… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kyō-no-maki 経の巻 | ✓ | Lit. sutra scrolls. Three or five cylindrical tiles found at the top of a lion-mouth roof *… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| kyōbako 経箱 | Sutra box. Although usually rectangular these come in many shapes, having a lid and sometimes a foot. Typically the material… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| kyōchi 境致 | Natural scenery of a particular place; environment. Whenever possible, temples of the Zen 禅 sect during the medieval period… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kyōcho 夾紵 | The Chinese term for the dry lacquer technique, pronounced jiazhu in Chinese. In ancient Japanese documents dry lacquer was… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Kyōgano 京狩野 | The Kyoto branch of the Kano school *Kano-ha 狩野派, founded by Kano… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Kyōgen gekichiku 香巌撃竹 | Ch: Xiangyan Jizhu. Also read Kōgan gekichiku. A painting subject of the Tang dynasty Zen 禅 (Ch: Chan) priest… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kyōgenbon 狂言本 | Also called *eiri kyōgenbon 絵入狂言本. An Edo period woodblock printed book… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kyōgenmen 狂言面 | Masks used for kyōgen 狂言 plays. Kyōgen is a comic theatre form, which together with the more serious *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kyōgōzuri 校合摺 | Proof prints made from the key block (the block that prints the dark outlines of a woodblock print *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kyōji 経師 | Originally, professionals who hand-copied sutras in the Nara period. Later the appellation referred to artisans who mounted… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kyōji 脇侍 | Also written 挟侍. Also wakishi 脇士, wakidachi 脇立. Also pronounced attendant figures. In groups of Buddhist… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kyōji 胸字 | The mark 卍 manji on the chest of the Buddha. Kyōji is listed as one of the 32 attributes of Buddha *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kyojō 居城 | Also read ijō and ijiro. A castle or fortification in which the castle lord resides on a daily basis… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kyokan 居館 | 1 A manor or palace, yakata 館, where a lord resides.
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Architecture, Castles | |
| kyokuroku 曲ろく | Also written 曲禄. Also less commonly called kyoku 曲 or kyokugi 曲木. Lit. curved wood. A chair made of… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kyōma 京間 | 1 The standard measurement used for bay size in the Kansai 関西 region, along the Inland Sea, along the San'… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kyōninkei 杏仁形 | Lit. apricot-kernel shape. This term refers to the eyes of Buddhist statues, which are wide open in the shape of an apricot… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kyōrogumi 京呂組 | ✓ | The method used to attach a purlin *jōyageta 上屋桁 and transverse beams *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kyoshimon 鋸歯文 | ✓ | Also called sen kyoshimon 線鋸歯文. Saw-tooth pattern. Kyoshimon includes the zigzag pattern *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| kyoshinkō 挙身光 | Lit. whole body halo. A halo, *kōhai 光背 surrounding the head and body of a… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kyōshoku 狭軾 | Armrest. The word was used in the Nara period, but amended to kyōsoku 脇息 in the mid-Heian period. Shapes are… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kyōshoku 胸飾 | Also read munakazari, or kyōtetsu 胸綴. An ornament found on the breast of *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Kyoto busshi 京都仏師 | Also kyō busshi 京仏師. Buddhist sculptors *busshi 仏師 associated with… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kyōyaki 京焼 | ✓ | Kyoto ware. General name of the ceramic wares of Kyoto (except *rakuyaki… |
Art History, Crafts |
| Kyoyū and Sōho 許由・巣父 | Ch: Xu You Chao Fu. A painting subject representing two legendary Chinese scholar-hermits famous for their extreme… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kyōzō 経蔵 | ✓ | Also called kyōko 経庫, kyōdō 経堂, zōden 蔵殿. A repository and storehouse for sutras, or sacred books… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| kyōzutsu 経筒 | Sutra cylinder. A container for the Buddhist sutras placed in the sutra mound kyōzuka 経塚: cylinders of circular,… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| kyūdaisu 及台子 | ✓ | Kyūdaisu is an abridged form of kyūdai daisu 及第台子. Also written 弓台子. An informal type of portable… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| kyūden 宮殿 | Also kūden 空殿.
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Architecture, Accessories | |
| kyūjiguchi 給仕口 | Also called kamuroguchi 禿口, *kayoiguchi 通い口 or *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kyūkado sama 急角狭間 | A corner loophole or gunport. Loopholes made at a ninety-degree corner of a castle wall, rather than in a flat wall. The… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kyūraku-zu 宮楽図 | Ch: gongletu. Lit. Pictures of Pleasures at Court. A broad term referring to paintings of Chinese court ladies, often… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Kyūrō 九老 | Ch: Jiulao. Lit. nine old friends. An abbreviation of Kyūrōkai-zu 九老会図 (Ch: Jiulaohuitu). Paintings zu… |
Art History, Painting |
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