| 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 | |
| tabigeta 旅桁 | 1 One of the purlins used in a hidden roof *noyane … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tachiagari 立上 | A vertical timber that rises from a level or inclined surface. In modular measurement of timber *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tachichōzubachi 立手水鉢 | ✓ | Lit. "standing water basin." A type of tall basin *chōzubachi 手水鉢 that can… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| tachikibutsu 立木仏 | Lit. "standing tree Buddha." A Buddhist image carved on a living tree or on wood that retains the form of the original tree… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| tachisama 立狭間 | A loophole *sama 狭間 cut in a wall about chest high to a standing soldier.… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| tagane 鏨 | Graver. A sharp, pointed steel tool used in metalwork and stone carving. Used for engraving, carving, and chiselling,… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| tagasode 誰袖 | Lit. "whose sleeves?" Painting theme depicting beautiful kimono 着物 draped across a wooden rack, ikō … |
Art History, Painting | |
| tahōtō 多宝塔 | ✓ | A 2-storied pagoda that developed from the circular, roofed one called *hōtō 宝塔… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| tai-no-shiro 対の城 | Lit. "confronting castle." Also termed mukaijiro 向城 (facing castle) and *tsukejiro… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| taibō 大房 | Also pronounced daibō. A large room 6.7 m wide and 12.7 m deep, constructed in a style customary from about the mid… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| taiheibire 大瓶鰭 | Also oigata 笈形, *gasshōhire 合掌鰭. A pair of decorative sculpted… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| taiheizuka 大瓶束 | ✓ | Lit. "large bottle strut." A strut that is used mainly in Zen style architecture *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| taiko-otoshi 太鼓落 | ✓ | The trimming or hewing of the opposite sides of a log so that the surfaces become flat and parallel making it easier to join… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| taiko 太孤 | Old Persian man taikofu 太孤父 and young Persian boy taikoji 太孤児, two types of gigaku masks *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| taikobari fusuma 太鼓張襖 | ✓ | Also called taikobari 太鼓張, fukuroshōji 袋障子, bōzufusuma 坊主襖. |
Architecture, General Terms |
| taikobashi 太鼓橋 | ✓ | Also called soribashi 反橋. An arched bridge made of stone or wood. One example is the Yoka Jinja 与賀神社 (1607) in Saga… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| Taikōbō 太公望 | Ch: Taigongwang. A Chinese scholar who was thought to be a paragon of humble virtue and learned accomplishment, and who… |
Art History, Painting | |
| taikodo 太鼓戸 | ✓ | A door frame covered on both sides with boards or panels. The inside of the door, like a drum taiko 太鼓, is empty.… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| Taima mandara 当麻曼荼羅 | Mandala of Taima. The most complete depiction of the *Kangyō hensō… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| tainaibutsu 胎内仏 | A small Buddhist image that is placed inside a larger one as an offering. In most cases, older images were placed inside… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| taisha 代赭 | Red ochre. A red pigment whose main component is ferric oxide (haematite), Fe203. Used in Japanese style painting *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| taisha-zukuri 大社造 | ✓ | Also called ōyashiro-zukuri. The oldest style of shrine architecture. Its small scale is thought to resemble that… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| taishaku 大尺 | Lit. "large shaku 尺." An ancient unit of length. Introduced in the Taihōryō 大宝令 codes of 701, it measured 35.6 cm,… |
Architecture, Measurement | |
| Taishakuten 帝釈天 | A major Hindu god called Indra or Sakra who has two major roles in Buddhist literature, one as king of the gods and lord of… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| taishidō 太子堂 | A hall either dedicated to Shōtoku Taishi 聖徳太子 (ca. 574-622), the second son of Emperor Yōmei 用明 (r. 585-87), or a building… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| taishoku 褪色 | Fading. A lessening of the intensity of a color by exposure to sunlight or air. Chemically unstable dyes or pigments undergo… |
Art History, Painting | |
| taishōtoku 退走禿 | "Running in retreat," a *bugaku 舞楽 dance and mask *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| taisō byōbu 太宗屏風 | A type of folding screen *byōbu 屏風 used in the Imperial Palace… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Taizō kyūzuyō 胎蔵旧図様 | A collection of iconographical line drawings *hakubyō 白描 in handscroll form… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| Taizō zuzō 胎蔵図像 | A collection of iconographical line drawings *hakubyō 白描 in handscroll form… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| Taizōkai mandara 胎蔵界曼荼羅 | A *mandara 曼荼羅 based on the Dainichikyō 大日経 (Sk: … |
Art History, Iconography | |
| taka-no-hashi 鷹の嘴 | Lit. "hawk's beak." A decorative, curved pattern often found on moldings. The pattern has pointed tips like a bird's beak.… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| takagari 鷹狩 | A pictorial subject depicting the sport of falconry, birds trained to hunt cranes tsuru 鶴, pheasants kiji… |
Art History, Painting | |
| takahei 高塀 | Also pronounced takahe. The gable walls of the central thatched portion kirizuma 切妻 of the roof *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| takahei-zukuri 高塀造り | Also pronounced takahe-zukuri. Lit. "high wall construction." Also called *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| takaikegaki 高生垣 | A hedge, 3 to 5 m high, planted as a wind screen or for fire control. |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| takakubashira 多角柱 | A pillar or post that is multi-sided or cut with many facets. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| takama bussho 高間仏所 | Also takaya bussho 高矢仏所. A guild of Buddhist sculptors active in Nara *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| takarabune 宝船 | ✓ | A sailboat hokakebune 帆掛船 at full sail, loaded with rice bushels and treasures takara 宝, often bearing the… |
Art History, Iconography |
| Takasago 高砂 | Now a modern city on the Inland Sea (southwest of Osaka in Hyōgo Prefecture), most famous as the sea-coast setting for the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| takatoriyaki 高取焼 | ✓ | Takatori 高取 ware. Made in Chikuzen 筑前 Province (modern Fukuoka Prefecture) of northern Kyūshū 九州, the Takatori kilns were… |
Art History, Crafts |
| take-no-fushi ranma 竹の節欄間 | ✓ | Also take-no-fushi 竹の節. Lit. "bamboo joint transom." A type of transom shaped like a balustrade which became… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| take tokusabei 竹木賊塀 | ✓ | Lit. "bamboo and horsetail tokusa 木賊 fence." |
Architecture, Gardens |
| takebashira 竹柱 | Lit. "bamboo post." One that has been squared off. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| takegaki 竹垣 | ✓ | Lit. "bamboo fence." A generic name for any kind of fence made with bamboo. Specific types include *… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| Takekawa 竹河 | ✓ | A pictorial subject taken from "Takekawa" ("Bamboo River"), Chapter 44 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of… |
Art History, Painting, Document |
| takekugi 竹釘 | A bamboo nail. Usually the nail is 7.5 mm square and made from giant bamboo madake 真竹 (also nigatake 苦竹).… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| takenaga bōsho 丈長奉書 | A long-sheet size of *hōsho 奉書 paper. Approximately 53 x 72 cm. The largest… |
Art History, Painting | |
| takerenji 竹連子 | ✓ | Bamboo or bamboo muntins that are used for windows in dwellings where a suggestion of rusticity is needed, or in tea… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| takeshōji 竹障子 | Paper-covered bamboo frames used as full-sized sliding doors *shōji 障子, or the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| takeyarai 竹矢来 | ✓ | Also written 竹柵. A roughly constructed bamboo fence with horizontal pieces placed close to the top, at the center, and at… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| takiguchi 焚口 | The stokehole or stokeholes in the side of a cooking range *kamado 竃. The… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| takigumi-ishi 滝組石 | Lit. "waterfall stone arrangement." A type of stone arrangement used for garden waterfalls. Also pronounced taki-… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| tako-e 凧絵 | Pictures on kites. It is thought that kite flying became popular in Japan in the 18th century, and the early designs for… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tako 蛸 | ✓ | A tool called a "punner" in English, used to pound down broken stones laid below the foundation of a building. It consists… |
Architecture, Tools |
| takudana 卓棚 | A set of decorative shelves used in an alcove. A single, high shelf with enclosed sliding doors is constructed slightly… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings |
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