| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| sunagozuri 砂子摺 | Lit. "gold dust printing." A technique used for woodblock printmaking *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 to… |
Art History, Painting | |
| sunasetchin 砂雪隠 | Lit. "sand toilet." Originally a functioning toilet for use during tea gatherings, it later became a purely ornamental… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| sunazuri 砂摺 | A plaster coating on a storehouse wall about 4.5 mm thick. Traditionally the mixture by volume was 10 parts of sand, 15… |
Architecture, Storehouses | |
| sundori 寸取 | Also suntori; also called issundori 一寸取, sun-osae 寸押, and sunkazoe 寸数. A method of… |
Architecture, Measurement | |
| suneate 脛当 | Also suneate 臑当. A piece of leather or metal armor used to protect the shin. Used since the Kofun period, and… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| sunoko 簀子 | ✓ | A slatted floor or duckboard floor made of boards or bamboo laid parallel with space between; each board is called … |
Architecture, General Terms |
| sunokogumi 簀組 | Bracket complexes constructed beneath a veranda to give it support. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| sunuki 簀貫 | A penetrating beam used as the backing and bracing for the various layers of plaster in the thick walls of a storehouse *… |
Architecture, Storehouses | |
| suō 蘇芳 | A purplish-red dye senryō 染料 color name, and the plant from which it is made. The su plant sappanwood… |
Art History, Painting | |
| suriage shōji 摺上障子 | ✓ | Also written 摺揚障子. Also called *agesage shōji 上下障子. |
Architecture, General Terms |
| suribotoke 摺仏 | Also read shūbutsu. A Buddhist image printed in ink on paper or cloth, and often placed inside a Buddhist statue (… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| surihaku 摺箔 | Rubbed metal foil. A decorative technique for textiles in which metal foil is impressed on a design first drawn in paste.… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| surimono 摺物 | Lit. "printed matter." High quality, privately sponsored woodblock prints mainly produced 1790's-1830's. Originally, the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| surinuki 摺抜 | Lit. "omitting a printing." An *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 woodblock printmaking… |
Art History, Painting | |
| susa すさ | Written susa 寸莎. Also tsuta つた. A generic term for fibrous substances, including straw, hemp, or paper… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| sushiki 素式 | 1 A wall with an entirely flat white surface. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| sute-ishi 捨石 | Lit. "discarded stone." One of the seven trump stones *nanatsu-ishi… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| sutebori 捨堀 | Moats dug in open areas some distance from a castle, to hinder the advance of enemy forces. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| suteguruwa 捨郭 | A sacrificial compound constructed in front of a main compound. A camp used to launch an attacking force. When a force moves… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| sutemayu 捨眉 | A type of molding *kurigata 繰形 incised on the lower edge of a… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| suteto 捨斗 | ✓ | Also sutedo. A bracket *tokyō 斗きょう that has the same… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| Suzakumon 朱雀門 | The front gate at the center of the south end of the outer enclosure that surrounded the palace compound at Heijō-kyō 平城京… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| suzumeguchi 雀口 | ✓ | Lit. "sparrow entrance, exit." A gap under the eave end tiles *nokisakigawara… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| suzumeodori 雀踊 | ✓ | Lit. "sparrow dance." A widely-used term for a range of elements used to decorate the ridge of the roof in vernacular houses… |
Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings |
| Suzumushi 鈴虫 | ✓ | A pictorial subject taken from "Suzumushi" ("The Bell Cricket"), Chapter 38 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale… |
Art History, Painting |
| suzuri 硯 | Also written 研. Inkstone. A base made of stone or other material used for grinding *sumi… |
Art History, Painting | |
| suzuribako 硯箱 | A box designed to hold an inkstone *suzuri 硯 and other writing… |
Art History, Painting |
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