| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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