| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| horadoko 洞床 | Lit. cave alcove. A cave-like entrance to a tea ceremony room, partially enclosed by a side wall. The side wall is called *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| horageta 洞桁 | Also horaketa. The first two of a series of purlins that support hidden rafters *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| horaguchi 洞口 | Also horakuchi. An opening on the side wall of an alcove *tokonoma… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hōrai enzanseki 蓬莱遠山石 | Lit. Penglai distant mountain stone. A technique in which the stone representing Mt. Penglai *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hōrai gantō 蓬莱岩島 | Lit. Penglai rock island. The technique of representing Mt. Penglai *Hōraisan… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hōrai teien 蓬莱庭園 | Lit. Penglai garden. A general term for a garden focused thematically on Mt. Penglai *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hōrai yōshiki 蓬莱様式 | Lit. Penglai style. A type of garden in which there presentation of Mt. Penglai *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hōraibune 蓬莱舟 | ✓ | Also called a boat stone funa-ishi 舟石 or treasure-boat stone takarabune-ishi 宝舟石. Lit. Penglai boat. A… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| Hōraisan 蓬莱山 | 1 Lit. Mt. Penglai. Ch: Penglaishan. The most famous of the three Elysian mountain-isles believed to lie… |
Architecture, Art History, Painting | |
| hōraiseki 蓬莱石 | Lit. Penglai stone. A garden stone representing Mt. Penglai *Hōraisan 蓬莱山,… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hori 堀 | ✓ | A moat that completely or partially surrounds a castle, palace, or mansion. Moats are primarily for protection but may… |
Architecture, Castles |
| Horikawa youchi 堀川夜討 | Lit. night attack on the Horikawa Palace. A pictorial subject depicting one of the many events in the life of tragic hero… |
Art History, Painting | |
| horikiri 堀切 | A dry moat *karabori 空堀, dug to separate and hinder passage between two peaks… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| horimono 彫物 | 1 The skills, process, and work of carving in wood, bamboo, stone, metal, or other materials. It also… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| horinuri 彫塗 | A method of color application in *yamato-e やまと絵, whereby the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| horiuchimichi 堀内道 | A pathway that runs along the bottom of a dry moat *karabori 空堀. Dry moats… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| horō 歩廊 | A style of passageway or corridor on the outside of a temple, shrine, palace, or mansion. The passageway often connects two… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Hōrōkaku manadara 宝楼閣曼荼羅 | A specific type of mandala *besson mandara 別尊曼荼羅, based on the Daihō… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| hōryō 法量 | Measurements of a Buddhist statue and attachments. They include:
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Art History, Sculpture | |
| hōshagata kōhai 放射形光背 | Also sujikō 筋光, nukigokō 貫後光, and kasagokō 傘御光. A radial nimbus. A type of the… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hoshi mandara 星曼荼羅 |
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Art History, Iconography | |
| hōsho 奉書 | An abbreviation of hōshogami 奉書紙, hōsho paper. A type of *washi… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hōsō-e 疱瘡絵 | Also *aka-e 赤絵. A woodblock print colored only with shades of red. The color was… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hosoban 細判 | Lit. narrow format. A size of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 print. The term hosoban is… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hosodono 細殿 | Lit. long narrow hall.
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Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hōsōge 宝相華 | 1 Also read hossōge, an abbreviation of hōsōgemon 宝相華文. Lit. precious flower. Hōsōge… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Art History, Painting | |
| hōsōge karakusa 宝相華唐草 | 1 Abbreviation of hōsōge karakusamon 宝相華唐草文. A type of Chinese arabesque design *… |
Architecture, Decorations, Roofing Tiles | |
| Hosokawa Sansai Chasho 細川三斎茶書 | A book of explanations and regulations of tea ceremony in one volume, believed to be the teaching of Ichio Iori 一尾伊織 (1602-… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hosokuzai 補足材 | The new timber used to repair or restore a traditional wooden building. Sometimes an entire rotted member is replaced, and… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hosonoko 細鋸 | Also known as osaehikinoko 押挽鋸. A thin bladed crosscut saw used to make a plane (see *… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| hossai 髪際 | Also hassai 髪際. Lit. Hairline. The point where the hair meets the forehead on a sculpted figure. The hairline is… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Hossō rokuso 法相六祖 | Lit. Six Patriarchs of the Hossō sect. In Japan: Shin'ei 神叡 (d. 737), Genbō 玄昉 (d. 746), Zenshu 善珠 (723-97), Gyōga 行賀(729-… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| hossu 払子 | Also 白払. A kind of brush, used to drive away insects during meditation. The hossu originated in ancient India, and… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Hotaru 蛍 | ✓ | A pictorial subject taken from "Fireflies" Hotaru, Chapter 25 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of… |
Art History, Painting |
| Hotei 布袋 | ✓ | Ch: Budai. A semi-legendary, itinerant 10th-century Buddhist monk who became a popular subject in Chinese and Japanese ink… |
Art History, Iconography |
| hōtō 宝塔 | 1 Lit. treasure pagoda. A generic name for a pagoda (Sk: stupa) of a type associated with the Buddhist… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hōto 方斗 | Also read hōdo. The bearing block placed in the center of criss-cross bracket arms *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hōto 奉渡 | The act of passing a Buddhist statue from the hands of the artist to the temple that commissioned the piece. Because the… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hōtōgata tōrō 宝塔形灯籠 | An unusual type of pagoda-shaped lantern found in a graveyard at Tsubakidera 椿寺 near Kitano Tenmangū 北野天満宮 in Kyoto.… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| hottaizō 法体像 | Also hōfukuzō 法服像. Lit. portrait in religious (i.e. Buddhist) appearance. A portrait of a person who has taken… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hottate-bashira 掘立柱 | Also written 掘立て柱, 掘建て柱. Earth fast posts. Posts *hashira 柱 whose feet, … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hottate goya 掘立小屋 | Also written 掘立て小屋, 掘建て小屋.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| hottate 掘立 | Also written 掘立て, 掘建て. A construction technique whereby the feet of posts, hashira-no-nemoto 柱の根元, are embedded… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hozo ほぞ | ✓ | Old pronunciation was hoso. A tenon. Protuberances of differing shape and size made on the end of wood, stone, or… |
Architecture, Joints |
| hozoana ほぞ穴 | A mortise. A cavity hewn from a timber or stone member or cut in metal to receivea tenon *… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| hōzuka 方束 | The square struts used to support the ends of veranda boards. Circular posts are thought to have been used earlier than… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Hyaku monogatari 百物語 | Lit. A hundred tales. Traditional and contemporary ghost stories as told, written, and illustrated in the Edo period. Early… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hyakumantō 百万塔 | Lit. one million pagodas. Wooden, miniature, three-storied, circular, memorial pagodas wrought on a lathe for Empress Kōken… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Hyakunin isshu 百人一首 | Lit. Single poems by 100 poets. A collection of waka 和歌 compiled by Fujiwara no Teika 藤原定家 (also known as Sadaie,… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hyōgu 表具 | Mounting. Also termed *hyōsō 表装. Hyōgu refers to the mounting of a… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hyōshi 表紙 | The covers of a bound book *sasshibon 冊子本, or an accordion book *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hyōsō 表装 | To mount a work of art in a hanging scroll *kakemono 掛物, handscroll *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ibara 茨 | Also called iga いが. Lit. cusp. 1 The point where two curved lines or forms meet. The… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ibaraki 茨城 | Lit. thorn tree fortress. A simple and usually temporary fortress surrounded by thorn trees or briar bushes to defend it… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| ichi Fuji, ni taka, san nasubi 一富士二鷹三茄子 | Lit. first: Mt Fuji; second: hawks; third: eggplant. A tradition which holds that these objects, seen in order in the first… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ichi no ji kuzushi 一の字崩 | ✓ | A decorative pattern used for muntins on sliding doors *shōji 障子, and transoms*… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| ichi no ji tsunagi 一の字繋 | A decorative pattern used for muntins on sliding doors *shōji 障子 and transoms*… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| ichi no ma 一の間 | Lit. room one. The innermost and most prestigious room, six to twelve straw mats *tatami… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| ichi no mon 一の門 | The first or main gate of a castle. At Matsuyamajō 松山城 in Ehime Prefecture, the gate plan was square *… |
Architecture, Gates, Castles | |
| ichi no oni 一の鬼 | ✓ | The ogre-face tile *onigawara 鬼瓦, placed at the ends of offspring ridges *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| ichiboku kaidan 一木階段 | A ladder hewed from a single log during the Yayoi period. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ichiboku-zukuri 一木造 | Also called ichiboku chō 一木彫 or ichiboku chōsei 一木彫成. Antonym of *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Ichiji kinrin mandara 一字金輪曼荼羅 | A variety of small, decidated mandala *besson mandara 別尊曼荼羅 centered on… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| Ichiji kinrin 一字金輪 | Lit. One-Syllable Golden Wheel. Also read Ichiji konrin and also known as Kinrin Butchō 金輪仏頂 (Golden-… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| ichijōhan no seki 一畳半の席 | ✓ | Also written 一帖半の席. A very small tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室, no more… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| ichijūdana 一重棚 | ✓ | Also ichijū tsuridana 一重釣棚. A single shelf suspended by a slender bamboo pole. It is made of paulownia when it… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| ichimai biraki 一枚開 | A single window or door opening. Also, a single door or window. They may swing on hinges one way, both ways, or slide. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ichimai-e 一枚絵 | Also ichimaizuri 一枚摺. Lit. single-sheet print. A single *ukiyo-e 浮世絵… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ichimatsu 市松 | ✓ | Also ishidatami 石畳 or *ishidatamimon 石畳文, danshichi 団七… |
Art History, Painting |
| ichimon-e 一文絵 | Lit. one mon picture. A small-sized woodblock print, usually depicting a courtesan or actor, printed only in black… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ichimonji bokashi 一文字ぼかし | A printing technique for producing graduated tones (shading) on woodblock prints *ukiyo-… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ichimonji dana 一文字棚 | A term used in all parts of Japan in the Edo period, for a straight shelf *tana… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ichimonji gawara 一文字瓦 | 1 Also called ichimonji nokigawara 一文字軒瓦; ichimonji karakusagawara 一文字唐草瓦. A type of… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| ichimonji 一文字 | 1 Two strips of fabric directly above and below a painting measuring the exact width of the painting,… |
Art History, Painting, Architecture, Gardens | |
| Ichinotani kassen 一ノ谷合戦 | A pictorial subject depicting scenes from the Battle at Ichinotani, a decisive confrontation in the Genpei war Genpei… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ichirin ike 一輪生 | ✓ | A small flower vase which is just large enough for one flower stalk. Most vases of this type were made of ceramic but… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| Idaten 韋駄天 | Also written 違駄天. The Indian deity Skanda, son of Shiva and general of his army, who became a protector of the Dharma in… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| ido 井戸 | 1 A well supplying drinking water. It may be deep or narrow, depending on the depth of the water table. The… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses | |
| idoko 居所 | Shortened form of idokoro 居所. A name for rooms or spaces in the following contexts: |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| iejiro 家城 | Lit. house castle. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| igarakuri 鋳繰 | Also ikarakuri. A method of casting metal statues by joining several sections. In the case of a large statue it was… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| igayaki 伊賀焼 | Iga 伊賀 ware. A stoneware ceramic made in Iga (now Maruhashira 丸柱 village), Mie Prefecture and in a few nearby villages. The… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| igeta 井桁 | 1 A generic term for any group of structural members set in a grid pattern. 2 The… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| iji dōzu 異時同図 | ✓ | A compositional method used to show successive events within a unified background, dōzu 同図, capturing the same… |
Art History, Painting |
| ijō kōbai 居定勾配 | Also abbreviated to ijō 居定. The degree of pitch on the underside of a rafter support *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ikake 鋳掛 | Repairing a hole or crack in a metal object. There are two methods: 1) crack in a metal statue or vessel is… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| ikazuchimon いかずち文 | Lit. lightning pattern. A pattern of thick and thin zig-zag lines. A variation of raimon 雷文 (see *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| ike niwa 池庭 | Lit. pond garden. A very general term for any garden with a pond. It includes other terms such as the archaic garden pond *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| ike no kokoro 池の心 | Lit. heart of the pond. The most important part of a pond, which, may be the center, bottom, or surface. The term is… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| ikebana 生け花 | Lit. to keep flowers alive. Flower arrangements. Originated in Buddhist flower offerings kuge 供花 from the 6th… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| ikegaki 生垣 | ✓ | Lit. living fence. A type of hedge made of trees, bamboo, or other living plants planted in a row and trimmed so as to form… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| ikekomigata tōrō いけこみ形灯籠 | Also written 生込み形灯籠. A lantern which lacks a base; the stem is inserted directly into the ground. Most lanterns of this type… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| iki いき | The aesthetic ideal of the Edo merchant class during the late 18th and 19th centuries, combining material sensuality and… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| ikkaku sennin 一角仙人 | Art History, Sculpture | ||
| ikken ikka 一間一花 | ✓ | A type of decorative pattern painted on coffered ceilings *gōtenjō 格天井 or… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| ikken'ya 一軒屋 | An independently framed urban-vernacular house *machiya 町家 of a more… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| ikkensha zukuri 一間社造 | A style of main shrine building that has a small one-bay sanctuary *honden… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| ikkō sanzon 一光三尊 | A triad of Buddhist statues arranged in front of a large nimbus *kōhai 光背, that… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Ikkyū 一休 | An abbreviation of Ikkyū Zenji 一休禅師, the Zen 禅 priest Ikkyū (1394-1481) of the *… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| ikuwamon 的門 | A gate at Heijō palace, Heijōkyū 平城宮 (8th century), in Nara that no longer exists but is mentioned in Shoku Nihongi… |
Architecture, Gates |
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