Skip to main content

JAANUS

  • # (1)
  • a (164)
  • b (123)
  • c (138)
  • d (144)
  • e (109)
  • f (114)
  • g (186)
  • h (452)
  • i (179)
  • j (138)
  • k (902)
  • m (398)
  • n (303)
  • o (176)
  • r (136)
  • s (783)
  • t (407)
  • u (134)
  • w (53)
  • y (199)
  • z (63)
  • Architecture (127)
  • Aristocratic Dwellings (5)
  • Art History (82)
  • Buildings (10)
  • Castles (12)
  • Crafts (5)
  • Decorations (5)
  • Folk Dwellings (8)
  • Gardens (14)
  • Gates (5)
  • General Terms (47)
  • Iconography (15)
  • Joints (2)
  • Lanterns (2)
  • Painting (27)
  • Roofing Tiles (2)
  • Sculpture (33)
  • Shrines (5)
  • Storehouses (3)
  • Structures (10)
  • Tea Houses (11)
  • Tools (3)

Displaying 201 - 207 of 207
Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
zukō 頭光

Lit. head light. A nimbus or halo that encircles the head of an image of a Buddhist deity. In the case of sculpture it is…

Art History, Sculpture
zumi 棠梨

A yellow pigment *ganryō 顔料, made from the bark of the deciduous…

Art History, Painting
zushi 厨子

1 A miniature shrine in which Buddhist images or rolls of sutras kyō 経 are kept. Reliquary…

Architecture, General Terms
zushi 辻子

1 Also written 図子, 途子. A crossroads or intersection of two roads. See *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
zushidana 厨子棚

Miniature shrine shelf. A cabinet shrine *zushi 厨子, used to store the writing…

Art History, Crafts
zuzō 図像

Iconographic sketches of Buddhist images done in simple ink drawing (see *hakubyō…

Art History, Painting
zuzōshō 図像抄

Selected Iconography, a late Heian compendium on Buddhist iconography. Also called Jikkanshō 十巻抄 (…

Art History, Painting

Pagination

  • First page « First
  • Previous page ‹‹
  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Current page 3

Contributor Login

JAANUS is the on-line Dictionary of Japanese Architectural and Art Historical Terminology compiled by Dr. Mary Neighbour Parent.

Originally built by the Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation, it is now hosted and maintained by the Media Center for Art History at Columbia University