| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| fūsuryō 副寺寮 | Also called fūsu 副寺. An administrative office often found in part of a Zen temple kitchen, *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| futaebei 二重塀 | Also called taikobei 太鼓塀 or drum wall. A double castle wall that consisted of two separate walls between which… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| fūtai 風帯 | A term used for one of the parts of the mounting of a hanging scroll, *kakemono… |
Art History, Painting | |
| futakoshi yane 二腰屋根 | A roof that has two different inclines between the ridge and eave ends. It changes its direction of flow without any… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| futamune-zukuri 二棟造り | Alternatively known as futatsuie 二つ家. A style of vernacular house, *minka… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| futamunerō 二棟廊 | A long, wide, double-bay corridor with an open ceiling, *keshō yaneura… |
Architecture, Buildings | |
| futanoki 二軒 | ✓ | A double row of rafters, called base rafters and flying rafters, that appears beneath the eaves of a roof. The base rafters… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| futaoki 蓋置 | ✓ | A stand, made of ceramic, bamboo, or metal, on which the lid of a tea ceremony kettle is placed. When the cover is placed on… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| futate hijiki 二手肘木 | A bracket arm that forms the second outward step of a two-stepped bracket complex. | Architecture, General Terms | |
| futatesakigumi 二手先組 | ✓ | Also called futatesaki tokyō 二手先斗きょう or futatesaki kumimono 二手先組物. A bracket complex composed of two steps… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| futatsudo tokyō 二(双)斗斗(きょう) | Also written 双斗斗きょう and pronounced the same way, or these characters can be read narabido tokyō or sōdo tokyō… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| fūtō-e 封筒絵 | Also shokanbukuro-e 書簡袋絵. The woodblock-printed pictures on folded paper covers which functioned as envelopes, … |
Art History, Painting | |
| fuza 趺坐 | Abbreviation of either the *kekka fuza 結跏趺坐 (full-lotus posture) or the *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| fūzokuga 風俗画 | Paintings with the daily activities and special pleasures of contemporary life as their subject matter. Equivalent to the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ga-no-byōbu 賀の屏風 | Lit. longevity screen. Type of folding screen made for celebrations of longevity, ga 賀. They were embellished with… |
Art History, Painting | |
| gachirin 月輪 | Also gatsurin, getsurin. A perfectly round circle meant to represent the full moon, a frequently used… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| gachūga 画中画 | A pictorial work or works that appear within a painting as part of the overall composition. The best example being the *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Gadō kongōsho 画道金剛杵 | Lit. Vajra on the Way of Painting, Nakabayashi Chikutō's 中林竹洞 (1776-1853) reactionary critique of contemporary… |
Art History, Painting, Document | |
| Gadō yōketsu 画道要訣 | Lit. Secret Principles on the Way of Painting, a late 17th-century discourse on painting *… |
Art History, Painting, Document | |
| gafu 画譜 | Ch: huapu. Lit. Painting primers, often illustrated books explaining the canon of painting production or appreciation. In… |
Art History, Painting | |
| gagari 鋸賀利 | A heavy duty ripsaw. It is similar to a coarse, ordinary, standard ripsaw that cuts along the wood grain except that the… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| gagyō 丸桁 | ✓ | Also read gangyō, gayō, nokigeta 軒桁, or *dashigeta… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| gagyōbane 丸桁桔 | Also read gangyōbane. A single heavy beam attached at right angles to the eave purlins *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Gahō kōryō 画法綱領 | Lit. Summary of Painting Laws, the first Japanese theoretical text on Western painting. Published in 1778, the text… |
Art History, Painting, Document | |
| Gahō saishikihō 画法彩色法 | Lit. Painting Laws: Methods of Coloring, a mid-18th-century painting manual edited by Sugaodō Yūsashi 菅生堂祐佐子… |
Art History, Painting, Document | |
| gaien 外苑 | Lit. outer garden. The area outside the sacred enclosure of a shrine, mausoleum, or temple. Typically, the approach to the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| gaiku 外区 | ✓ | The section of a pendant *gatō 瓦当, outside the lotus flower motif, on a semi… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| gajō 画帖 | An album of paintings. Small-size paintings, sketches, or drawings are either pasted or directly drawn on the pages of an… |
Art History, Painting | |
| gakan 画巻 | Chinese term for a painting on a handscroll. The Japanese term *emaki 絵巻 has the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| gaken 画絹 | Silk used for painting. Same as *eginu 絵絹. |
Art History, Painting | |
| gaki 餓鬼 | Hungry ghosts. One of the types within the group *rokudō-e 六道絵 (paintings of… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| Gakō binran 画工便覧 | Also read Gakō benran. Lit. Handbook on Painters, a late 17th-century history of Japanese painting… |
Art History, Painting, Document | |
| gakō 画稿 | A modern term for drafts and other preparatory drawings used for making a painting. Includes *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Gakō senran 画巧潜覧 | Lit. Deep Probes into the Skill of Paintings. A mid-18th-century six-volume history of the *… |
Art History, Painting, Document | |
| gaku 額 | A tablet, plaque, or framed picture. The oldest form, dating back to the Nara period, is the wooden plaque *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| gakubuchi 額縁 | 1 The wooden rails and stiles around doors or windows. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| gakumi-ishi 額見石 | Lit. plaque-viewing stone. One of the trump stones *yakui-ishi 役石 in the… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| gakusho 楽所 | ✓ | Also called gakuya 楽屋 or gakudokoro 楽所. A small, simple, open building, like a roofed platform at some… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| gakuten 楽天 | Heavenly musicians. Heavenly beings *hiten 飛天, playing musical instruments,… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| Gama Tekkai 蝦蟇・鉄拐 | Ch: Hama Tiegue. Two Taoist immortals frequently paired in Chinese and Japanese painting. Gama 蝦蟇 (Ch: Hama), also… |
Art History, Painting | |
| gamamushiro tenjō 蒲蓆天井 | ✓ | Also called gamatenjō 蒲天井. A wood-board ceiling to which reed-mace, braided straw or rush mats are attached.… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| gan'uchi 雁打 | Lit. flying geese. The poetic name given to a type of zig-zag arrangement of stepping stones *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| ganburigawara 雁振瓦 | ✓ | Also called *kanmurigawara 冠瓦, *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| gangi hashigo 雁木梯子 | ✓ | Lit. zig-zag ladder. A kind of ladder, hashigo 梯子(see *kaidan 階段),… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| gangi 雁木 | Also written 岸岐. |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tools | |
| gangibō 雁木棒 | A thatching tool, kayayane fuki kōgu 茅屋根葺き工具, with a timber head, about 25 x 30 x 5 cm, fixed to a cylindrical… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| gangidana 雁木棚 | Also aikidana 合木棚 or kangidana 函木棚. An alcove in a *shoin… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses | |
| gangizaka 雁木坂 | One type of warrior run *mushabashiri 武者走, comprised of stone steps … |
Architecture, Castles | |
| ganpishi 雁皮紙 | Formerly called hishi 斐紙. Paper made from the fiber of the ganpi plant (Diplomorpha sikokiana honda or… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ganro-no-seki 丸炉席 | Also called chadō 茶堂. A tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室 which… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| ganro 丸炉 | Also called *ganro-no-seki 丸炉席. A cylindrical iron stove used in a tea… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| ganryō 顔料 | 1 Pigment. Powdered colors used in oriental painting. Insoluble in water and most other liquid media.… |
Art History, Painting | |
| gansaku 贋作 | A fake or forgery. To produce a likeness of another painting with intent to deceive. Generally the forger is careful to use… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ganwaridoko 龕破床 | Also called ganaidoko, gangōdoko 龕合床. An alcove with the floor board the same height as the matted room, a… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| ganzō 龕像 | Images carved in a niche. In a broad sense the term refers to the Buddhist images of high relief carved into the rock walls… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| garan haichi 伽藍配置 | ✓ | The arrangement of buildings within the precinct of a Buddhist temple constructed between the late 7th century to 12th… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| garan-ishi 伽藍石 | Also garanseki 伽藍石. Lit. temple stone. A base stone from a ruined temple used as a stepping stone *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| garan 伽藍 | An abbreviated form of sōgya ranma 僧伽欄摩 (Sk: samgha arama). Lit. A garden for monks. Also rendered as sōen… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| garasu-e ガラス絵 | Glass painting. Oil or thick pigments are mixed with glue and applied to the reverse sides of glass plates, to be viewed… |
Art History, Painting | |
| garon 画論 | Ch: hualun. Discourses on Painting. Writings on painting theory, criticism, principles or classification, also including… |
Art History, Painting | |
| gasan 画賛 | A kind of poetic inscription, added to a blank area above or next to a completed painting. Typically, this inscription gives… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Gasen 画筌 | Net of Paintings, an early 18th-century introductory text on the study of painting by Hayashi Moriatsu 林守篤 (fl. early 18th… |
Art History, Painting | |
| gasenshi 画仙紙 | Also written 画箋紙 or abbreviated to gasen, written 画箋, 画牋, or 雅宣. A paper of Chinese origin, xuanzhi (Jp:… |
Art History, Painting | |
| gasō 画僧 | Monks who produced paintings of Buddhist subjects to accumulate religious or spiritual merit. Gasō refers to those… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Gasoku 画則 | Principles of Painting. A mid-18th-century five-volume treatise on painting by Sakurai Sekkan 桜井雪館 (1715-90). An ally of the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| gasshō 合掌 | 1 The triangular frame created by joining a pair of cruck-like members *… |
Architecture, General Terms, Art History, Sculpture | |
| gasshō-zukuri 合掌造 | ✓ | A distinctive style of farmhouse nōka 農家 which evolved in the Edo period in the Shirakawa 白川 and Shōkawa 荘川 areas… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| gasshōhire 合掌鰭 | Also oigata 笈形, *taiheibire 大瓶鰭. Lit. principal-rafter fins. A… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| Gatan keiroku 画譚鶏肋 | Lit. Worthless Discussion of Painting. A late 18th-century three-volume treatise on painting by sinophile, Southern… |
Art History, Painting, Document | |
| gatō mon'yō 瓦当文様 | ✓ | Patterns, motifs, designs applied to the circular antefixes *gatō 瓦当 on semi… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| gatō 瓦当 | ✓ | 1 Eave-end tiles with a circular or semi-circular ornamental pendant. Gatō were brought to Japan… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| gawageta 側桁 | Also pronounced kawageta. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| gawakabe 側壁 | Also read sokuheki or kawakabe. The exterior wall of a building. An outside wall or end wall. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| gedai 外題 | Also hyōdai 表題. The title daimoku 題目 of a literary work or painting. It is written on the outer cover of a… |
Art History, Painting | |
| gedan 下段 | Lit. low step. The lowest level of floor space in a formal *shoin 書院 style room… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| gedō 外堂 | Lit. outer hall. The outer part of a two part structure called the *sōdō 僧堂… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| gegyo 懸魚 | ✓ | Also gegyo 掛魚 (Ch: guayu); formerly also pronounced kengyo. Gable pendant, lit. hanging fish.… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| gejin 外陣 | 1 In shrine architecture, the main hall *honden 本殿 is divided… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| gejōseki 下乗席 | Lit. dismounting stone. A type of keystone *yakui-shi 役石, stepped on when… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| gekan 下間 | Lit. lower space. It is a room adjoining the main rooms of the priests' quarters in a Zen temple. It is located near the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| geki 戟 | Also hoko 鉾. A weapon, found as an attribute of fearsome Buddhist figures such as *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Gekkamon 月華門 | 1 A gate in the corridor connecting the two halls Kyōshoden 校書殿 and Anpukuden 安福殿 in the Imperial Palace at… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| Gekkōden 月光殿 | A guest hall at Gokokuji 護国寺 in Tokyo. It is a large single storied structure of 7 x 6 bays, and has a hip-and gable roof *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Gen Shiryō 厳子陵 | Ch: Yan Ziling. A scholar-recluse of the later Han period, who was a childhood friend of Emperor Guangwu (Jp: Kōbu 光武, AD 4-… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Genji-e 源氏絵 | Pictorial representations whose subject matter comes from Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of Genji). Either a… |
Art History, Painting | |
| genjibei 源氏塀 | ✓ | Genji 源氏 fence is a board fence with posts set at intervals and a base runner set between the foundation stones of the posts… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| genjikō-no-zu 源氏香の図 | Also kō-no-zu 香の図. A geometrical design pattern originally symbolizing combinations of incense fragrances. The… |
Art History, Painting | |
| genjō mosha 現状模写 | Also called hakuraku utsushi 剥落写し. Lit. a copy of the exfoliated state of a painting. An exact copy of the present-… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Genjō 玄奘 | Ch: Xuanzhuang/Xuanzang (600/2-664). A Chinese monk of the Tang Dynasty and the founder of the Hossō sect (see *… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| Genjōraku 還城楽 | Return to the castle dance, Alternative names: Genkyōraku 環京楽 (Return to Capital Dance), Genjōraku 還成楽 (Return of One of… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| genkaibashi 厳海橋 | Lit. Genkai bridge. A type of bridge used to span deep garden streams or ravines. It is constructed with a triangular timber… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| genkan chūmon 玄関中門 | A structure with a gable roof *kirizuma-zukuri 切妻造, projecting from the… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| genkan 玄関 | 1 The entrance gallery or porch used in the guest hall *kyakuden… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| gennō 玄能 | A type of hammer with an iron head and an oak handle. The gennō is used to strike a chisel or plane, or to… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| genpitsu 減筆 | Ch: jianbi. Often genpitsubyō 減筆描. Also ryakuhitsu 略筆. Lit. abbreviated brush drawing. An… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Genroku bunka 元禄文化 | Lit. Genroku culture. The middle Edo period *Edo jidai 江戸時代 chūki 中期… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| Gensō 玄宗 | Also known as Minghuang (Jp: Meikō 明皇). Ch: Xuanzong (685-762). The sixth emperor of the Tang dynasty, well-known for his… |
Art History, Painting | |
| gensōdoko 原叟床 | A style of alcove *tokonoma 床の間, attributed to Kakukasai Sōsa 覚々斎宗左… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| gentanryū teien 玄丹流庭園 | Lit. Gentan lineage garden. A style of late Edo period garden in the Izumo 出雲 district, Shimane Prefecture, associated with… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| Genzu mandara 現図曼荼羅 | Genzu mandala. A version of the *Taizōkai mandara 胎蔵界曼荼羅 that is… |
Art History, Iconography |
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