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nurigome-zukuri 塗篭造

A generic term for the process used to build a fire-resistent wall. Typically the wooden structural frame is entirely…

Architecture, General Terms
nurigōshi 塗格子 ✓

Windows made with plaster-covered lattice, commonly used in merchants' houses *machiya…

Architecture, General Terms
nurimawashidoko 塗廻床 ✓

Also written 塗回床. An alcove *tokonoma 床の間, with three sides and the wall…

Architecture, General Terms
nurishiro 塗代

Also nuriatsu 塗厚. Depth of plastering. The ratio between the thickness from the first rough coat applied to the…

Architecture, General Terms
nuriya tenjō 塗屋天井

A ceiling of the *sunoko 簀子 type made from bamboo stalks lashed…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
nuriya 塗屋

Also written 塗り屋, 塗家.

1 A fireproof building in which all the timber surfaces of the structural…

Architecture, General Terms
nuriya-zukuri 塗屋造

An alternative term for *ōkabe-zukuri 大壁造. The fireproofing…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
nyōbōza 女房座

Lit. "wife's seat." Also frequently called kakaza 嬶座. One of the seats around the edge of the sunken hearth *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
nyoi hōju 如意宝珠

Also nōsashō hōju 能作性宝珠, mani hōju 摩尼宝珠. A sacred jewel, said to remove suffering, and capable of granting…

Art History, Sculpture
nyoi 如意

An implement carried by Buddhist priests at a ceremony or during formal preaching. It has a slightly curved handle about 30-…

Art History, Sculpture
Nyoirin Kannon 如意輪観音

Sk: Cintamanicakra. A form of *Kannon 観音, most often six armed and…

Art History, Iconography
nyorai 如来

Lit. "the thus-come one." Sk: tathagata. One who has realized true enlightenment. In order to reach this state of…

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