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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
mushamado 武者窓 ✓

Also bukemado 武家窓, bugyōmado 奉行窓. Edo period windows with heavy vertical lattice bars, used in castle…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
mushiko gōshi 虫籠格子

Also written 蒸子格子. A type of lattice *kōshi 格子 used on windows…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
mushikomado 虫籠窓 ✓

A type of window containing a lattice of *mushiko gōshi 虫籠格子, set into the upper part…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
musōkugi 無双釘 ✓

Also musō orekugi 無双折釘. A type of nail used to hang a scroll in an alcove *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
musōmado 無双窓 ✓

Abbreviated term for musō renjimado 無双連子窓, also further shortened to musō 無双. A window made of narrow…

Architecture, General Terms
Musōryū chitei 夢窓流治庭

Lit. "Corrective on Gardens of the Musō Lineage." A late Edo period treatise on landscape gardening. According to the…

Architecture, Gardens, Document
Mutamagawa 六玉川

Lit. "six jewelled rivers." Six famous rivers all named Tamagawa 玉川 located in six different Japanese prefectures. They…

Art History, Painting
mutesaki tokyō 六手先斗きょう ✓

Sometimes abbreviated to mutesaki 六手先. Six-stepped bracket complexes as seen on the great south gate, Tōdaiji *…

Architecture, General Terms
myōga akujō 茗荷悪尉

A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a fierce, old man. The shape of…

Art History, Sculpture
myōjin torii 明神鳥居 ✓

A pillared gate-like entrance to a Shinto shrine, developed around the 9th century. The most common type of shrine entrance…

Architecture, Shrines
Myōken 妙見

Sk: Sudrsti, also Sonshōō 尊星王 or Hokushin bosatsu 北辰菩薩. Originally a deification of the Polestar, …

Art History, Iconography
myōō 明王

Translation of Sanskrit vidyaraja, meaning spell-king. Vidya literally means knowledge, but in Esoteric Buddhism mikkyō…

Art History, Iconography

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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