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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
fukikaeshi 吹返

1 Also written 葺返. A board which projects diagonally out from the top of a statue canopy, *…

Architecture, Accessories, Sculpture, Art History
fumichidana 文道棚

A very simple type of shelving with sliding doors at floor level. Typically, the shelving is part of the many different…

Architecture, Accessories
fusa 総

Also written 房.

1 A tassel, tuft, fringe, cluster, or bunch.

2 Silk is for the elite and rough fabric for…

Architecture, Accessories
fusahikite 総引手

Tassels attached to the pull, *hikite 引手, of an opaque sliding screen, *…

Architecture, Accessories
hikite 引手 ✓

Lit. hand pull. Commonly called door pull. A door pull added to sliding doors *fusuma…

Architecture, Accessories

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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