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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
Gadō kongōsho 画道金剛杵

Lit. Vajra on the Way of Painting, Nakabayashi Chikutō's 中林竹洞 (1776-1853) reactionary critique of contemporary…

Art History, Painting, Document
Gadō yōketsu 画道要訣

Lit. Secret Principles on the Way of Painting, a late 17th-century discourse on painting *…

Art History, Painting, Document
Gahō kōryō 画法綱領

Lit. Summary of Painting Laws, the first Japanese theoretical text on Western painting. Published in 1778, the text…

Art History, Painting, Document
Gahō saishikihō 画法彩色法

Lit. Painting Laws: Methods of Coloring, a mid-18th-century painting manual edited by Sugaodō Yūsashi 菅生堂祐佐子…

Art History, Painting, Document
Gakō binran 画工便覧

Also read Gakō benran. Lit. Handbook on Painters, a late 17th-century history of Japanese painting…

Art History, Painting, Document
Gakō senran 画巧潜覧

Lit. Deep Probes into the Skill of Paintings. A mid-18th-century six-volume history of the *…

Art History, Painting, Document
Gatan keiroku 画譚鶏肋

Lit. Worthless Discussion of Painting. A late 18th-century three-volume treatise on painting by sinophile, Southern…

Art History, Painting, Document
Takekawa 竹河 ✓

A pictorial subject taken from "Takekawa" ("Bamboo River"), Chapter 44 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of…

Art History, Painting, Document
Tamakazura 玉鬘 ✓

A pictorial subject taken from "Tamakazura" ("The Jeweled Chaplet"), Chapter 22 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The…

Art History, Painting, Document
Tansei jakubokushū 丹青若木集

"Collection of Young Trees of Painting"; one-volume biography of Japanese painters by Kano Ikkei 狩野一渓 (1599-1662). Compiled…

Art History, Painting, Document
Teizō hisho 庭造秘書

Lit. "Secret Text on Garden Construction." A treatise on landscape design supposedly written first in the Muromachi period.…

Architecture, General Terms, Document
Tōhaku gasetsu 等伯画説

Tōhaku's Explanation of Painting, comments of the Momoyama period painter Hasegawa Tōhaku 長谷川等伯 (1539-1610) on well…

Art History, Painting, Document
Tokai hōkan 図絵宝鑑

Ch: Tuhui baojian. Precious Mirror of Painting, a late Yuan dynasty history of Chinese painting by Xia…

Art History, Painting, Document
Tokai sōi 図絵宗彜

Also sometimes read Zue sōi. Ch: Tuhui zongyi. Principles of Painting. Chinese painting manual…

Art History, Painting, Document
Tokonatsu 常夏 ✓

Lit. "everlasting summer." A pictorial subject taken from "Tokonatsu" ("Wild Carnations"), Chapter 26 of Genji…

Art History, Painting, Document
Tsukiyama teizōden 築山庭造伝

Lit. "Commentary on Landscape Gardens."

1 A mid-Edo book written by garden designer Kitamura Enkin…

Architecture, Gardens, Document
Tsuta-no-hosomichi 蔦の細道

Lit. "narrow road of ivy." Pictorial subject matter taken from Episode 9, *Azuma…

Art History, Painting, Document

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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