| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| mukōzuma 向妻 | Also *tsumairi 妻入; mukōzuma-zukuri 向妻造; *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| mukuri 起 | ✓ | Lit. "camber." In traditional Japanese architecture, a roof surface or individual member with convex curves as opposed to… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| mukuri yane 起屋根 | ✓ | A camber roof. A roof with convex curve from eave end *nokisaki 軒先, to ridge… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| mume shikii 無目敷居 | Also called mekurashikii 盲敷居, *mume 無目, nume 滑, or mume… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| mume 無目 | Lit. "smooth or flat." A prefix used to indicate that a threshold or sill *shikii… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| munafuda 棟札 | Ridge tag. A narrow, wooden tag or marker, measuring from 30 cm to 1 m long, upon which pertinent information regarding a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| munagi 棟木 | A ridge pole or ridge beam. The topmost horizontal member in a roof. It receives the upper ends of the rafters. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| munagō 胸甲 | Also pronounced kyōkō. A protective breast-plate found on Buddhist guardian deities *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| munakata 棟形 | Ridge beam. Also called munegata, munagata, munegeta 棟桁; *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| munakomigawara 棟込瓦 | ✓ | A general term for the rows of decorative tiles used along the ridge of a structure. The tiles have many patterns, for… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| munamochi-bashira 棟持柱 | ✓ | Also osabashira 小狭柱 or futabashira 二柱. A generic name for pillars which rise from the ground to… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| munamon 棟門 | Also called munekado. A simple gate with two circular pillars, a gable roof *… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| munazutsumi 棟包 | ✓ | Also read munezutsumi. |
Architecture, General Terms |
| mune 棟 | Also called *munagi 棟木. A ridge. Mune includes not only the main ridge at the very… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| muneageshiki 棟上式 | Also muneage 棟上; jōtōsai 上棟祭; jōtōshiki 上棟式. A ridge-raising ceremony that takes place upon… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| munegawara 棟瓦 | Also read munagawara. Lit. "ridge tiles." A generic term for the tiles used to cover the apex of the roof.… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| munekazari 棟飾り | A generic name for the ornaments added to the ridge of a thatched or wooden roof to protect the roof-ridge, and to symbolize… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| muneshinanoki 棟品軒 | The main ridge pole that extends beyond the end of a roof surface and abuts against the footplate ashimoto 足元, of… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| munesumigawara 棟隅瓦 | Lit. "tiles at the corners of the ridge." A generic term for the ogre tile *onigawara… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| Murasaki Shikibu 紫式部 | Lady Murasaki (978?-1014?), most famous writer of the Heian period and subject of several paintings. Her Genji… |
Art History, Painting | |
| murasaki 紫 | 1 Abbreviation of murasaki-iro 紫色. Purple color. Purple, as mentioned in the Nihon shoki … |
Art History, Painting | |
| muro 室 | 1 In Japan's earliest compilations, the 8th century Kojiki 古事記 and Nihon shoki 日本書紀, a… |
Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings | |
| murodoko 室床 | Also called *horadoko 洞床 or tsuchidoko 土床. An alcove… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| Muromachi jidai 室町時代 | Also Ashikaga jidai 足利時代. The Muromachi period (1392-1568). The period derives its name from a district in Kyoto which… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| muryōjuin 無量寿院 | 1 A name given to the *amidadō 阿弥陀堂, a temple hall dedicated… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Musashino 武蔵野 | Lit. "Musashi 武蔵 plain." A part of the Kantō 関東 plain which extends south from Kawagoe 川越 City in Saitama Prefecture to… |
Art History, Painting | |
| museishi 無声詩 | Lit. "an unvoiced poem." Painting as a medium which conveys meaning without sound. The Chinese believed that although poetry… |
Art History, Painting | |
| musha-e 武者絵 | 1 A category of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 prints that depicted battle… |
Art History, Painting | |
| mushabashiri 武者走 | Lit. "warrior run." The wide section built inside a wall on the level top of an earthen embarkment *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| mushakakushi 武者隠 | Lit. "hidden warriors." A small room closed off from the raised-floor area *jōdan… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| mushamado 武者窓 | ✓ | Also bukemado 武家窓, bugyōmado 奉行窓. Edo period windows with heavy vertical lattice bars, used in castle… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings |
| mushiko gōshi 虫籠格子 | Also written 蒸子格子. A type of lattice *kōshi 格子 used on windows… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| mushikomado 虫籠窓 | ✓ | A type of window containing a lattice of *mushiko gōshi 虫籠格子, set into the upper part… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| musōkugi 無双釘 | ✓ | Also musō orekugi 無双折釘. A type of nail used to hang a scroll in an alcove *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| musōmado 無双窓 | ✓ | Abbreviated term for musō renjimado 無双連子窓, also further shortened to musō 無双. A window made of narrow… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| Musōryū chitei 夢窓流治庭 | Lit. "Corrective on Gardens of the Musō Lineage." A late Edo period treatise on landscape gardening. According to the… |
Architecture, Gardens, Document | |
| Mutamagawa 六玉川 | Lit. "six jewelled rivers." Six famous rivers all named Tamagawa 玉川 located in six different Japanese prefectures. They… |
Art History, Painting | |
| mutesaki tokyō 六手先斗きょう | ✓ | Sometimes abbreviated to mutesaki 六手先. Six-stepped bracket complexes as seen on the great south gate, Tōdaiji *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| myōga akujō 茗荷悪尉 | A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a fierce, old man. The shape of… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| myōjin torii 明神鳥居 | ✓ | A pillared gate-like entrance to a Shinto shrine, developed around the 9th century. The most common type of shrine entrance… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| Myōken 妙見 | Sk: Sudrsti, also Sonshōō 尊星王 or Hokushin bosatsu 北辰菩薩. Originally a deification of the Polestar, … |
Art History, Iconography | |
| myōō 明王 | Translation of Sanskrit vidyaraja, meaning spell-king. Vidya literally means knowledge, but in Esoteric Buddhism mikkyō… |
Art History, Iconography |
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