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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
jūgyū 十牛

Ch: jiuniu. Lit. ten bulls. A Zen 禅 (Ch: chan) allegory in which Buddhist training, from first initiation to final…

Art History, Painting
jūhozo  重ほぞ ✓

Also called kasanehozo 重ねほぞ; also ryōhozo 両ほぞ. Lit. a stacked tenon. A tenon with a 2-stepped broad…

Architecture, Joints
Jūichimen Kannon 十一面観音

Sk: Ekadasamukha. Eleven-headed Kannon; a form of *Kannon 観音 with eleven miniature faces…

Art History, Iconography
Jūjūtō 十重塔

A unique, ten-story stone pagoda *sekitō 石塔 at Injōji 引接寺(1386) in Kyoto.…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
juka bijin 樹下美人 ✓

Ch: shuxia meiren. A painting theme of a beautiful woman under a tree. The subject found throughout Asia may have…

Art History, Painting
jūkenmon 重圏文

A pattern composed of concentric circles on a pendant *gatō 瓦当 and parallel…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
jukōgata tōrō 珠光形灯籠

Also read shukōgata tōrō. Also written shikōgata 四光形. A type of lantern with a gently rounded canopy…

Architecture, Lanterns
jūkomon nokihiragawara 重弧文軒平瓦 ✓

A pattern of parallel lines decorating the pendant *gatō 瓦当 of a broad,…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
jun'yokoya 順横矢

Lit. regular side arrow.

1 An arrow, gun or cannon attack from inside a castle on the left side of…

Architecture, Castles
jūni shinshō 十二神将

Also jūni yakusha taishō 十二薬叉大将, jūni shinshō 十二神王. The twelve protective deities *…

Art History, Iconography
jūniten 十二天

Twelve Deities. A group of tutelary deities consisting of various Hindu gods, which was incorporated into Esoteric Buddhism…

Art History, Iconography
Juntei 准胝

Sk: Cundi. Also Juntei Butsumo 准胝仏母, Shichigutei Butsumo 七倶胝仏母, or Butsumo Juntei 仏母准胝. …

Art History, Iconography
jūō 十王

Ten Kings. The ten kings of hell who preside at the gates of the underworld, assigning souls to heaven or hell. The Buddhist…

Art History, Iconography
Jurōjin 寿老人 ✓

Ch: Shou laoren. A Chinese Taoist god known as the immortal of the Northern Song and also considered the personification of…

Art History, Iconography
jūroku musashi 十六武蔵

A kind of table game played with one king and 16 round, pawn-like piece of paper on each side of a divided board. The board…

Art History, Painting
jūroku rakan 十六羅漢

Sixteen arhats *rakan 羅漢. The saintly ascetics who gathered at the death and…

Art History, Iconography
jūroku 十六

Sixteen. A noh mask *nōmen 能面, representing the young Heike 平家…

Art History, Sculpture
jūroku zenshin 十六善神

Also read jūroku zenjin. Abbreviation of Shaka jūroku zenshin 釈迦十六善神 or Shaka sanzon jūroku…

Art History, Iconography
jūsanbutsu 十三仏

Thirteen Buddhas. A set of thirteen Buddhist deities, including *myōō 明王 (Sk…

Art History, Iconography
jūsanjū-no-tō  十三重の塔 ✓

A thirteen-storied pagoda. The only wooden thirteen-storied pagoda extant is located at Danzan Jinja 談山神社 (1532) in Nara.…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
jūsōmon 重層門

Lit. a gate of more than one story. Jūsōmon is a gate with a large roof over the entire structure. A balcony,…

Architecture, Gates
jutai 綬帯

A general term for any ornamental band of cloth found on a bodhisattvas *bosatsu…

Art History, Sculpture
jūyōsoben rengemon 十葉素弁蓮華文

The decorative pattern of a ten-petalled flower which is used on roof tiles, particularly on round eaves tiles *…

Architecture, Decorations
juzō 寿像

A portrait, sculpted or painted, made during the lifetime of the subject. The most common was a *…

Art History, Sculpture

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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