| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| ōkabe-zukuri 大壁造 | ✓ | 1 A style or method of constructing a wall, in which the basic framework for plastering is made on the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| okajō 丘城 | Lit. "hillcastle." Also termed kyūryō jōkaku 丘陵城郭. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| Ōkakudai 黄鶴台 | A sukiya style *sukiya-zukuri 数寄屋造 bathhouse, yokushitsu… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| okamabashira 御竃柱 | Also written 御釜柱. A pillar which is erected opposite the main central support pillar *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| okami 御上 | 1 A room that abutted the earth-floored area *doma 土間, at its… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| okashi おかし | 1 Charming, or delightful. An approach to the aesthetic indicating a carefree appreciation of objects and… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| Okazarisho 御飾書 | Shogun Ashikaga's 足利 book of tea ceremony implement arrangement, thought to have been written by Sōami 相阿弥 (1455-1525), a… |
Architecture, General Terms, Document | |
| okiawase 置合 | The arrangement of tea ceremony utensils in preparation for a tea ceremony. It is more rarely called okitsuke 置付.… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| okidoko 置床 | Also *tsukedoko 付床. An early type of removable alcove formed by placing a… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| okidōrō 沖灯籠 | ✓ | A lantern placed in the water or near the water's edge. These can be clearly viewed from rocks or a boat, and boats use them… |
Architecture, Lanterns |
| okigata 置形 | The part of a ceramic tea bowl decorated with pattern. When used in a tea ceremony, the okigata is positioned… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| okina 翁 | Also hakushikijō 白色尉. The white faced mask of a happy old man used in *Noh… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| okinamen 翁面 | Proto-Noh masks *nōmen 能面 used in the three-piece ritual Shikisanba 式三番… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| okiro 置炉 | ✓ | A portable brazier used for a tea ceremony. It is usually 42 cm square with a height ranging from 21-24 cm. The hearth bed… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| okiya 置屋 | The houses of procurers keeping teams of yūjo 遊女, female entertainers and prostitutes in the authorised pleasure… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| okiyane 置屋根 | ✓ | The upper roof erected over storehouses, kura 倉, of the *dozō … |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| okkake daisentsugi 追掛大栓継 | ✓ | An oblique, housed (dadoed) and rabbeted scarf joint. The upper and lower pieces are exactly the same but reversed. The… |
Architecture, Joints |
| okkake manji 追掛万字 | ✓ | Architecture, Decorations | |
| oko-e 嗚呼絵 | Also written 嗚滸絵. Comic, satiric paintings popular among aristocrats in the Heian period. The priest Kakuyū 覚猷 (1053-1140;… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ōkoboshi shiki-ishi 大零し敷石 | Lit. "large scattered paving stones." |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| okoshi-ezu 起絵図 | Also called tate-ezu 建絵図. A fold-up, three-dimensional plan drawn on paper, to show the interior of rooms assembled… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| oku 奥 | 1 The interior or heart of something. The furthermost, innermost or ultimate space in a sequence of spaces… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| oku-eshi 奥絵師 | The highest ranking of the official painters *goyō-eshi 御用絵師… |
Art History, Painting | |
| oku-in 奥院 | An inner sanctuary. The part of a temple most remote from the main entrance. An example is the Keikyū-in 桂宮院, at Kōryūji… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| oku-no-in 奥の院 | A structure named for its location behind the main hall of a Buddhist temple or Shinto shrine. Sometimes it is a… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| ōkubi-e 大首絵 | Lit. "large head depictions." A common type of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 print… |
Art History, Painting | |
| okugaki 奥書 | Also okuzuke 奥付, atogaki 後書, batsu 跋 (Ch: ba), or batsubun 跋文 (Ch: bawen… |
Art History, Painting | |
| okurimanji 送り万字 | A type of design pattern *mon'yō 文様 or mullion *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| okurito 送斗 | ✓ | Also called uketo 受斗. A bearing block, longer than but shaped very much like the *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| okuyuki 奥行 | The depth or distance from front to rear of an object, piece of furniture, room, building, plot of land etc. It may be… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| okuzashiki 奥座敷 | 1 A general term for the final or innermost room of a *shoin 書院… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| ōkyokuzai 応曲材 | A general term for structural members that sustain pressure horizontally. Transverse beams *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ōma 大間 | 1 A gate mon 門, with multiple pillars with large intervals between them. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ōmagari 大曲 | Lit. "large curve." An arrangement of stepping stones *tobi-ishi 飛石, laid in… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| Ōmi hakkei 近江八景 | Lit. "Eight views of Ōmi." An early and famous Japanese version of the eight views, or *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ominaeshi 女郎花 | Courtesans flowers; wild pinks. | Art History, Painting | |
| ōmionna 近江女 | Woman of ōmi. A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a young-to-… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| omiya 御宮 | A term of respect for a shrine. | Architecture, Shrines | |
| omogegyo 本懸魚 | Lit. "main gable pendant." Also written 主懸魚, ogamigegyo 拝懸魚. A decorative gable pendant *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| omohan 主版 | Also sumi-ta 墨板 (black ink block); jizumi-ita 地墨板; sumizuri-no-ita 墨摺の板; daihan 台板… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ōmon 大門 | Also read *daimon. Lit. large gate. A large gate that functions as the entrance… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| omote 表 | Lit. "the front, surface, or exterior of something." |
Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| omote-eshi 表絵師 | Lower-ranking groups of official painters employed by the shogunate during the Edo period. The disciples and branch families… |
Art History, Painting | |
| omotemon 表門 | A generic term for the main gates of an aristocratic dwelling. It applies especially to residences in the shinden… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| omoteya 表屋 | A row of urban vernacular buildings *machiya 町家, directly facing the street at… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| omoteya-zukuri 表屋造 | ✓ | A layout of urban vernacular residences *machiya 町家, found during the Edo… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| ōmunamon 大棟門 | Also read ōmunekado. A large gate that is similar to another type of gate called *… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| ōmune 大棟 | Architecture, General Terms | ||
| ōmuseki 鸚鵡石 | A book containing excerpts from *kabuki 歌舞伎 plays, used by… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ōnaoshi 大直 | The second layer of a plastered wall. The first layer of a plastered wall is made of a rough clay-sod or mud-plaster mixture… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| onari goten 御成御殿 | A generic term used from the Muromachi through the Edo periods to indicate facilities provided for the visit of a shogun to… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| onari-niwa 御成庭 | Lit. "a visitor's garden." A garden at an aristocratic dwelling, located at the entrance for royalty, shogun and noblemen.… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| onarimon 御成門 | A visitor's or regent's gate. A type of *yakuimon 薬医門 or *… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| oni-arashikō ganna 鬼荒仕工鉋 | A preliminary roughing plane. The oni-arashiko ganna has only a single cutting blade, expressed as ichimaiganna… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| oni-ita 鬼板 | A wooden board or an undecorated tile used in place of ogre face tiles *onigawara鬼瓦 at each… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| onidai 鬼台 | ✓ | Also called onigawaradai 鬼瓦台, oni-itadai 鬼板台. The base material on the ridge ends of the main roof of… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| onigawara 鬼瓦 | Lit. "goblin-tile." 1 The generic name for decorative roof tiles found at the ends of a main ridge *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| Ōnintei 皇仁庭 | Art History, Sculpture | ||
| oniwaku 鬼枠 | A type of saw horse on which to place timber so that a carpenter can cut it easily. Two posts are sunk directly into the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| onna-e 女絵 | Onna-e (feminine painting) is a most maligned term that invites various interpretations, some even contradictory.… |
Art History, Painting | |
| onnamen 女面 | Noh masks *nōmen 能面 representing women. This category divides broadly into three… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| ono 斧 | An ax. The ax has existed since the Stone Age, and was one of the earliest implements used by man. Its design was improved,… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| onohajime 斧始 | Sometimes written 斧始め. Also te-onohajime 手斧始, katanahajime 刀始. A ceremony performed when an artist is… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| ōnoki 大軒 | Lit. "a big eave." An eave made of long base rafters *jidaruki 地垂木, which is… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Onrindō 園林堂 | A small, 2 × 2 1/2 bay private Buddhist hall (1685?) at Katsura Rikyū 桂離宮, Kyoto. The hall has a tiled roof *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| onryōmen 怨霊面 | Noh masks *nōmen 能面 of ghosts and spirits. Although all the … |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| ōnuki 大貫 | An archaic term for a tie beam roughly 3.6 m long by 11 cm wide by 2.5 cm thick. Cedar or cypress were commonly used. Now… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ōōban 大々判 | Lit. "extra large format." A size of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 print. The term ōōban… |
Art History, Painting | |
| orekugi 折釘 | ✓ | A type of hooked nail made from one piece of iron. It is bent at a right angle and is square in cross section. The name is a… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| oriage gōtenjō 折上格天井 | ✓ | A coved and coffered ceiling. The coved part has curved struts. It surrounds the coffered ceiling and at the same time… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| oriage kogumi gōtenjō 折上小組格天井 | ✓ | A coved, coffered and finely latticed ceiling. When the height of a ceiling of the same type is increased by curved struts… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| oriage tenjō 折上天井 | ✓ | A coved ceiling. A ceiling raised by diagonally placed straight timbers *shirin… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| oribe dōrō 織灯籠 | A small lantern used to light pathways. It is baseless and inserted directly into the earth. On top is a spherical jewel *… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| oribedoko 織部床 | A wall space allotted for hanging a scroll rather than a true alcove. It is characterized by a smoothly planed board, 15-20… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| oribeguchi 織部口 | An entrance to the guest's seat in a tea ceremony room. The size is between that of a noblemen's entrance *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| oribei 折塀 | A castle wall that is undulates with indentations and protrusions. It is designed to allow for the strategic placement of… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| oribemado 織部窓 | Also called monokakemado 物掛窓. A type of rustic window *shitajimado… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| oribeyaki 織部焼 | ✓ | Oribe 織部 ware. Produced mainly from 1600 to the 1630s, this high-fired pottery juxtaposing rich fluid glazes with abstract… |
Art History, Crafts |
| origami 折紙 | Lit. "folded paper." |
Art History, Painting | |
| orihon 折本 | ✓ | Also jōsōbon 帖装本 and orijō 折帖 or jō 帖. Ch: zheben (Jp: shōhon 摺本). An… |
Art History, Painting |
| oriido-no-kagenoki 下り井戸の影の樹 | Lit. "spiral well with shade tree." A tree planted near a spiral well *oriido 下り井戸 so that it… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| oriido 下り井戸 | Lit. "descending well." A deep well. It is also called spiral well rasei 螺井, or snail well maimai ido… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| oriokigumi 折置組 | ✓ | Also orioki 折置. Method of assembly in a building's structural frame. A method of fixing a transverse beam *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| orizama 折狭間 | A loophole in a wall *oribei 折塀 that zigzags back and forth like a folding screen *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| ōsakado 大阪戸 | A plastered sliding door on a storehouse, kura 蔵. During the early 17th century they became heavy and thick,… |
Architecture, Storehouses | |
| oshi-e 押絵 | Fabric pictures. Representations of figures, birds, animals, flowers, landscapes or characters of a poem that are cut out of… |
Art History, Painting | |
| oshi-ita 押板 | 1 A low four-legged table used in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods in upper class priestly and lay… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| oshibuchi 押縁 | Lit. "pushing frame." The horizontal bars to which the vertical slats *tateko… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| oshidashibutsu 押出仏 | Also tsuichōbutsu 鎚ちょう仏. A repose relief depicting Buddhist deities (and the technique involved). Usually small,… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| ōshukubai 鴬宿梅 | Lit. "the plum tree where the warbler dwells." A painting subject inspired by an episode in the 10th-century tale in … |
Art History, Painting | |
| osue 御末 | Also written 男末. |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| otabisho shinden 御旅所神殿 | Also *otabisho 御旅所. Otabi 御旅 (revered journey); sho 所 (space); shinden… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| otabisho 御旅所 | Also otabi-no-miya 御旅宮, otabi 御旅, tabisho 旅所, mikoshiyadori 神輿舎. |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| otafuku お多福 | Also okame おかめ, ofuku お福, otogoze 乙御前, and *sanpei… |
Art History, Painting | |
| otafukubishi 御多福菱 | A decorative diamond pattern created by a series of indented curved lines. Occasionally the pattern is used for mullions *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| ōtan 黄丹 | Also pronounced ōdan, ōni. A deep yellow color, produced by dyeing yellow gardenia *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ōte 大手 | Also written 追手. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| ōtemon 大手門 | The front gate of a castle. Derive from *ōte 大手, the front of a castle or… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| Ōtenmon 応天門 | The red-painted front gate, 5 x 2 bays with three entrances that provided access from the south to enter the *… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| oto 乙 | Also otogoze 乙御前. A mask of a young woman, used in kyōgen 狂言 plays. Oto has a fat, dimpled face… |
Art History, Sculpture |
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