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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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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