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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
yūraku zu 遊楽図

Lit. "depictions of amusements." A major category of genre painting *fūzokuga…

Art History, Painting
yūri odaruki 遊離尾垂木 ✓

Separated tail rafters supported by fulcrums which in turn support long purlins at their mid point and at each end. They are…

Architecture, General Terms
yūsoku mon'yō 有職文様

Traditional design motifs, used either in single units or repeated to create patterns, based on designs from Heian courtly…

Art History, Painting
yuta-zukuri 雪打造

Also written 雨打造. A style of architecture that employs pent roof. A common 13th-19th century expression for *…

Architecture, General Terms
yūyaku 釉薬

Also yū 釉 or uwagusuri. Glaze. In the heat of firing, clay particles vitrify to form a glass matter…

Art History, Crafts
yūyakugawara 釉薬瓦

A generic term for glazed roof or wall tiles.

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
yūzen-zome 友禅染

Yūzen style dyeing. A form of paste-resist dyeing with beautiful colors and pictorial designs named after the Kyoto…

Art History, Crafts
Yūzū Nenbutsu engi 融通念仏縁起

The History and Benefits of the Yūzū Nenbutsu engi. A handscroll theme recounting the early history of the Yūzū…

Art History, Painting

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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