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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
ebigote 海老篭手

Also ebigatakote 海老形篭手. A shrimp-shaped gauntlet *kote 篭手. Armor worn to…

Art History, Sculpture
Ebisu 恵比須 ✓

Also written 夷, 戎, or 蛭子.

1 One of the seven gods of good fortune *…

Art History, Sculpture
eizō 影像

Also ei 影, *shin-ei 真影, *miei…

Art History, Sculpture
emon 衣文

Folds in a garment, or the pattern made by these folds. 

In Buddhist statues, the style of drapery folds changed…

Art History, Sculpture
En-pa 円派

A Buddhist sculpture school *bussho 仏所, active in Kyoto from the 11th century…

Art History, Sculpture
enbu dangon 閻浮檀金

An imaginary type of gold which, according to Buddhist scriptures, was the most precious of metals. It was said to be found…

Art History, Sculpture
enkei kōhai 円形光背

A round nimbus. A round halo on a Buddhist statue, attached to the back of the head. Enkei kōhai are further…

Art History, Sculpture
enkō 円光

A type of round nimbus *kōhai 光背 or halo, found on a Buddhist image. The…

Art History, Sculpture
enmeikaja 延命冠者

Lit. Lengthened life Kaja. A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a cheerful young…

Art History, Sculpture
enpatsu 炎髪

Also written 焔髪. Upstanding hair in the shape of flames. This accompanies an expression of anger *…

Art History, Sculpture
ensōkō 円相光

Also ensō kōhai 円相光背. A large circular halo *kōhai 光背 found on…

Art History, Sculpture
rahotsu 螺髪

Spiral-shaped curls of hair, like snail-shells, on the head of a *nyorai…

Art History, Sculpture
raigō-in 来迎印

Lit. "welcoming mudra." A mudra or hand gesture *in 印 in which the forefinger,…

Art History, Sculpture
ramō 羅網

A net-like ornament strung with jewels or precious metals and hung from the canopy *…

Art History, Sculpture
renben 蓮弁

Lit. "lotus petal."
1 A pendant *gatō 瓦当, found on semi-…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Art History, Sculpture
rengeza 蓮華座 ✓

Also renza 蓮座. Lit. "Lotus base" (Sk: padmasana). A dais for a Buddhist image *…

Art History, Sculpture
renniku 蓮肉

The central section of a lotus flower pedestal *rengeza 蓮華座 on which a…

Art History, Sculpture
renpashiki emon 漣波式衣文

A manner of representing drapery folds in Buddhist sculpture. It consists of either 

1) a high…

Art History, Sculpture
Rikishi 力士 ✓

Ch: Lishi. A gigaku mask *gigakumen 伎楽面…

Art History, Sculpture
Rin Nasei 林和靖

Ch: Lin Hejing (967-1028). A noted poet, calligrapher, and scholar of the Northern Song dynasty. Rin Nasei's real name was…

Art History, Sculpture
rinkō 輪光

A type of halo *kōhai 光背 used on Buddhist images, forming a free-…

Art History, Sculpture
rinnōza 輪王坐 ✓

The royal ease position (Sk: Maharajalilasana). A seated position used for a Buddhist image with one knee (usually…

Art History, Sculpture
rōgata 蝋型

Also rōgata chūzō 蝋型鋳造, rōgata imono 蝋型鋳物. A method of metal casting known as the lost-wax…

Art History, Sculpture
rōjo 老女

A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing the aged, yet beautiful face of…

Art History, Sculpture
Rokujō Madenokōji Bussho 六条万里小路仏所

A Buddhist sculpture workshop *bussho 仏所, active from the 11th-14th century and…

Art History, Sculpture
ryō-onna 霊女

A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing the suffering spirit of a woman…

Art History, Sculpture
Ryōō 陵王

Also Raryōō 羅陵王, Ranryōō 蘭陵王 (King Lanling), and Ryūō 龍王 (Dragon King, see *…

Art History, Sculpture
ryūzō 立像

Also read ritsuzō. A Buddhist image which is standing, as opposed to seated (see *…

Art History, Sculpture

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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