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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
kyōrogumi 京呂組 ✓

The method used to attach a purlin *jōyageta 上屋桁 and transverse beams *…

Architecture, General Terms
kyoshimon 鋸歯文 ✓

Also called sen kyoshimon 線鋸歯文. Saw-tooth pattern. Kyoshimon includes the zigzag pattern *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kyoshinkō 挙身光

Lit. whole body halo. A halo, *kōhai 光背 surrounding the head and body of a…

Art History, Sculpture
kyōshoku 狭軾

Armrest. The word was used in the Nara period, but amended to kyōsoku 脇息 in the mid-Heian period. Shapes are…

Art History, Sculpture
kyōshoku 胸飾

Also read munakazari, or kyōtetsu 胸綴. An ornament found on the breast of *…

Art History, Sculpture
Kyoto busshi 京都仏師

Also kyō busshi 京仏師. Buddhist sculptors *busshi 仏師 associated with…

Art History, Sculpture
kyōyaki 京焼 ✓

Kyoto ware. General name of the ceramic wares of Kyoto (except *rakuyaki…

Art History, Crafts
Kyoyū and Sōho 許由・巣父

Ch: Xu You Chao Fu. A painting subject representing two legendary Chinese scholar-hermits famous for their extreme…

Art History, Painting
kyōzō 経蔵 ✓

Also called kyōko 経庫, kyōdō 経堂, zōden 蔵殿. A repository and storehouse for sutras, or sacred books…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
kyōzutsu 経筒

Sutra cylinder. A container for the Buddhist sutras placed in the sutra mound kyōzuka 経塚: cylinders of circular,…

Art History, Crafts
kyūdaisu 及台子 ✓

Kyūdaisu is an abridged form of kyūdai daisu 及第台子. Also written 弓台子. An informal type of portable…

Architecture, Tea Houses
kyūden 宮殿

Also kūden 空殿.


1 Also *zushi 厨子, an old term…

Architecture, Accessories
kyūjiguchi 給仕口

Also called kamuroguchi 禿口, *kayoiguchi 通い口 or *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
kyūkado sama 急角狭間

A corner loophole or gunport. Loopholes made at a ninety-degree corner of a castle wall, rather than in a flat wall. The…

Architecture, Castles
kyūraku-zu 宮楽図

Ch: gongletu. Lit. Pictures of Pleasures at Court. A broad term referring to paintings of Chinese court ladies, often…

Art History, Painting
Kyūrō 九老

Ch: Jiulao. Lit. nine old friends. An abbreviation of Kyūrōkai-zu 九老会図 (Ch: Jiulaohuitu). Paintings zu…

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