| 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 | |
| Ya-no-ne 矢の根 | A pictorial subject taken from Arrowhead, the play from the *kabuki… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Yadorigi 宿木 | ✓ | A pictorial subject taken from "Yadorigi" ("The Ivy"), Chapter 49 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of Genji… |
Art History, Painting, Document |
| yaegaki 八重垣 | Lit. "eightfold fence." A type of double-screen sleeve fence *sodegaki 袖垣 in… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| yagenbori 薬研堀 | A widely used moat with sides that slope like an earthen embankment. The name is derived from the moat having a bottom with… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yagura kemudashi 櫓煙出 | ✓ | Also written 櫓烟出. Also read yagura kemuridashi. An opening constructed in a thatched roof to allow the escape of… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yagura 櫓 | ✓ | A guard tower set atop the corners of a castle's stone wall and other strategic positions overlooking the surrounding area.… |
Architecture, Castles |
| yaguramon 櫓門 | ✓ | Also called a watari yaguramon 渡櫓門 or just *watari yagura 渡櫓. A… |
Architecture, Gates |
| yaguramono 櫓物 | The largest sized roof tile used to connect the turret corridors *watari yagura… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| yaguranuki 櫓貫 | Commonly double-penetrating, diagonally placed beams that connect the main post *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yakan 野干 | A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a small Chinese fox. Its thin-lipped, slightly… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| yakata tenjō 屋形天井 | 1 A ceiling with the same pitch as the roof. Really, an exposed ceiling *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yakatajiro 館城 | Also written 屋形城. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yakifude 焼筆 | Lit. "burned brush." A wooden stick with a burned tip. Like charcoal used in western style painting, yakifude is… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yakimono-no-tō 焼物の塔 | A bisque ware or unglazed pagoda. Plain, unglazed small pagodas are called deitō 泥塔, meaning mud pagodas.… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| yaku-ishi 役石 | ✓ | Also kaname-ishi 要石. Rocks and stones which in a tea garden *roji 露地… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| yakuba 役場 | 1 The parts of a stone wall such as exterior corners, top surfaces, or openings for drainage where… |
Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings | |
| yakuboku 役木 | Also read yakugi. The allocation of shrubbery in a garden, particularly applied to trees which set the mood of a… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| yakueda 役枝 | Lit. "roles of branches." The branches of a flower or tree that are given a name based on their "role" in the structure of… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| yakugawara 役瓦 | A generic term for all types of roof tiles which serve a special purpose. These tiles include: sleeve tiles *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| yakuimon 薬医門 | ✓ | A gate with a gable roof constructed with two square or rectangular main posts and two square or circular secondary posts *… |
Architecture, Gates |
| yakuko 薬壷 | A medicine jar, found on the palm of the left hand in figures of *Yakushi 薬師, the… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| yakusha-e 役者絵 | A type of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 print which shows one or several actors in a stage pose or… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yakusha ehon 役者絵本 | Lit. "picture books illustrating actors." Books that bound together actor prints, but also included theater and stage scenes… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yakusha hyōbanki 役者評判記 | Printed books criticizing actors' skills. Theater reviews were not published in booklet form until 1656 with Yakusha-no-… |
Art History, Painting, Document | |
| Yakushi keka 薬師悔過 | Keka 悔過 is a term used in Buddhism meaning repentance of one's sins, and refers to the chanting of prayers to… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Yakushi 薬師 | The name of the Buddha associated with healing. Sino-Japanese rendering of Sanskrit Bhaisajyaguru, meaning "Medicine Master… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| yakushidō 薬師堂 | ✓ | A Buddhist temple hall housing a statue of *Yakushi 薬師 (Sk: Bhaisajyaguru), the Buddha… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| Yakuzan Rikō 薬山・李翱 | Ch: Yaoshan Li'ao. A Zen 禅 painting subject depicting the philosophical debate between the Tang dynasty hermit-priest… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Yakuzan shuchū no shu wo iru 薬山射麈中麈 | Ch: Yaoshan she chenzhongchen; lit. "Yakusan's Shooting of the Great King of the Big Deers." A Zen 禅 (Ch: Chan)… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yama-ai 山藍 | Lit. "mountain indigo." Perennial plant 30-40 cm high, Mercurialis leiocarpa Sieb. et zuc., used to make a blue dye… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yama-ishi 山石 | Lit. "mountain stone." A generic name for stones found or quarried in the mountains. Unlike sea stones *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| Yamagoe no Amida 山越阿弥陀 | Also read Yamagoshi no Amida; Amida yamagoe (yamagoshi) raigō 阿弥陀山越来迎. Lit. "Amida… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| yamajiro-no-koguchi 山城の虎口 | A mountain castle entrance. The entrance *koguchi 虎口 of a mountain… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yamajiro 山城 | ✓ | Lit. "mountain castle." A castle built on a mountain to take advantage of the mountain's topography. One of the three main… |
Architecture, Castles |
| yamame uchikomizumi 山目打込積み | Lit. "mountain eye pounding and inserting piling." A dry construction method used to pile stones for a stone wall *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yamamichi katō 山道火灯 | A window used especially in the Zen style *zenshūyō 禅宗様; a type of ogival… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yamamomo 山桃 | Also written 楊梅樹. A brown vegetable dye senryō 染料 obtained from the evergreen tree Myrica rubra,… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yamato 大和 | ✓ | 1 An abbreviation for yamatouchi-no-to 大和打の戸 or yamatouchi 大和打. A door that has vertical… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yamato-e shiki teien 大和絵式庭園 | Lit. "gardens in the style of Japanese painting." Also called sakuteikiryū 作庭記流 (gardens in the lineage of the… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| yamato-e やまと絵 | Also written 大和絵 and 倭絵. A widely used description term which has carried various nuances in different periods, but… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yamato hyōgu 大和表具 | The most commonly used style of mounting hanging scrolls *kakemono 掛物 in… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yamatobei 大和塀 | ✓ | A fence made of widths of bleached bamboo spaced about 45 cm apart and held in place by bark. This type of fence is used in… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| yamatobuki 大和葺 | ✓ | 1 A type of board roofing made by first spacing boards of equal width at predetermined intervals and then… |
Architecture, General Terms, Tea Houses |
| yamatokaki 大和掻 | A type of bamboo lattice entwined with wisteria vine set in a window opening *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| yamatomune 大和棟 | An alternative term for a roof style found on Edo period farmhouses nōka 農家, called *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| yamatotoji 大和綴 | ✓ | Also musubitoji 結び綴じ, lit. "knot-binding." The simplest style of book-binding, and usually a type of pouch-binding… |
Art History, Painting |
| Yamauba 山姥 | Also read Yamanba. Oni-onna 鬼女 (demonic woman) or yama-onna 山女 (mountain woman) are used occasionally.… |
Art History, Painting, Sculpture | |
| yanagidana 柳棚 | Lit. "willow shelf." An asymmetrical arrangement of three decorative shelves tokowakidana 床脇棚 arranged in the… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| yanagikugi 柳釘 | Also yanagikakekugi 柳掛け釘. A nail hammered into a partially plastered post yanagibashira 柳柱 (see *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| yanakadake 屋中竹 | Also yamadake 屋間竹. The bamboo purlins, about 20-30 cm in circumference, that are placed about 30-36 cm apart over a… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| yane-ita 屋根板 | A generic name for various types of roofing boards including *noji-ita… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yane kōzō 屋根構造 | ✓ | The construction of the roof framework or roof truss over the body of a building. The essential framing for a gable roof *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yane 屋根 | ✓ | Also called okugai 屋蓋, lit. "roof covering." A generic term for various types of roofs, roof styles, and roofing.… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yanebuki 屋根葺 | Roofing or roof covering. The most commonly used types of roofing are clay tiles *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yanegae 屋根替 | Rethatching, retiling, or reshingling a roof whereby old roofing is replaced with new roofing. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yanekugi 屋根釘 | Also kobanekugi 小羽根釘. Small round bamboo roofing nails, with a diameter between 2.1 to 2.8 mm and a length from 50… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yaneura 屋根裏 | 1 See *keshō yaneura 化粧屋根裏. 2 An… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yaraiko 矢来子 | The framing members of a fence. They may be vertical, horizontal, diagonal, or arranged to form squares or lozenges. A variety… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| yareigeta 破井桁 | ✓ | Lit. "broken well crib." Also yabureigeta. A design used for muntins *kumiko… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yariganna 槍鉋 | A plane thought to have been the only plane employed in ancient times to pare and finish timber. Today carpenters do not use… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| yarimizu 遣水 | ✓ | Lit. "water course." An archaic term for a shallow, curving garden stream. The term, found in the 11th-century garden manual… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| yarisama 鑓狭間 | A loophole for thrusting pikes and spears. Typically, they are installed in narrow locations beside main castle entrances… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yasaka-zukuri 八坂造 | Also *yasaka-zukuri 祇園造. A style of shrine architecture which began in the… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| yase-onna 痩女 | A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing the suffering spirit of a woman who dies from… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| yase-otoko 痩男 | Emaciated man. Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a ghost suffering in hell. Lean… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| yasha 夜叉 | Also yakusha 薬叉 (Sk: yaksa), a class of semi-divine beings usually considered to be of a benevolent and… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| yashabushi やしゃぶし | Also written 夜叉付子. A brown vegetable dye senryō 染料 made from the alder tree (Alnus firma), which… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Yashamon 夜叉門 | ✓ | An eight-legged gate *hakkyakumon 八脚門 (1653) located at Rinnōji Taiyūin… |
Architecture, Gates |
| yashikijiro 屋敷城 | A small castle or fortification built like a a country house or mansion yashiki 屋敷. In the middle ages, it usually… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yashikimon 屋敷門 | ✓ | 1 The front gate of a warrior's manor house. 2 A gate, now called Kyū tōjin… |
Architecture, Gates |
| Yashima kassen 屋島合戦 | A pictorial subject depicting scenes from the Battle at Yashima, an important engagement in the Genpei Battles Genpei… |
Art History, Painting | |
| yashiro 社 | 1 A Shinto shrine. 2 In very ancient times before permanent buildings were erected… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| yasuri 鑢 | U-shaped metal pieces nailed to a gate, allowing it to be locked with a sliding timber gate-bar *… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| yatoi-ari 雇蟻 | A right-angled joint with a dovetail spline tenon *hozo ほぞ that resembles a… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| yatoihozo 雇ほぞ | Also called sashiki 差木, yatoiki 雇木, or machihozo 待ほぞ. 1 A spline tenon. A… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| yatsu 八つ | Lit. "the character eight 八 yatsu." The practice of propping three or four posts around a newly replanted tree. The… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| yatsuhashi 八橋 | ✓ | 1 Lit. "eight bridges." A type of low bridge built over a shallow pond or marsh using wooden planks without… |
Architecture, Art History, Painting |
| yatsumune-zukuri 八棟造 | ✓ | Lit. "eight-ridge construction." A complicated roof style with multiple ridges and bargeboards, or large vernacular house… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| yatsushi torikabuto 省鳥兜 | A type of decorated beam *kibana 木鼻 which is a simplified version of Japanese… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| yawari 矢割 | A method of stone-splitting achieved by boring a hole in the stone. A wedge *kusabi… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Yayoi jidai 弥生時代 | The Yayoi period (ca. 400 BCE to 250 CE). The period is marked by the establishment of rice cultivation and an agrarian… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| yazama 矢狭間 | An arrow loophole in a castle wall. Also sengan 箭眼. Characterized by a vertical opening about 45 cm high (1 … |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yō no koguchi 陽の虎口 | Positive castle entrance or yang entrance. A generic term for various types of castle entrance *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yō 様 | A suffix. When used in architectural history, it means a technical style, as in *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| yobikogata chōzubachi 呼子形手水鉢 | Lit. "whistle shape." A type of water basin *chōzubachi 手水鉢 which resembles… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| yodo 淀 | ✓ | Also yodogi 淀木 or yodonuki 淀貫. Tapered horizontal timber, 12-15 cm wide and 4.5 cm thick, placed on top of… |
Architecture, General Terms |
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