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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
itachigai 板違 ✓

Wooden panels with the grain set in alternating directions in a coffered ceiling *…

Architecture, General Terms
itadatami 板畳

1 The boards covered by tightly woven straw mats *tatami 畳,…

Architecture, General Terms
itadoko 板床 ✓

An alcove with a wooden floor instead of a *tatami 畳 mat. There…

Architecture, Tea Houses
itago 板子

An Edo period term for wooden planks with a rectangular cross-section, between 5 cm and 30 cm thick. These planks were cut…

Architecture, General Terms
itajiki 板敷

A common type of wooden board flooring commonly used before thick straw matting *tatami…

Architecture, General Terms
itakarado 板唐戸 ✓

Also read itagarado; also called itatobira 板扉. A 6th-7th century door made of a single, thick wooden plank…

Architecture, General Terms
itakōhai 板光背

Lit. board nimbus. A halo *kōhai 光背 on a Buddhist statue, carved…

Art History, Sculpture
itame 板目 ✓ 1 A board cut in such a way that the grain lines are not parallel but instead are rather pointed or having irregular wavy… Architecture, General Terms
itaniwa 板庭

1 A low timber platform constructed within the earth-floored area *doma…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings
itanoki 板軒 ✓

Thick boards used to cover exposed base rafters visible under eaves. Examples: Eihōji Kannondō 永保寺観音堂 (1315), Gifu…

Architecture, General Terms
itaokoshi 板起し

Also hegesoko 扮げ底, heragaeshi 箆返. The method of removing a ceramic tea caddy *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
itaosae 板押

Also read itaoshi. Battens used to prevent boards from moving. They are long, thin strips of wood set vertically…

Architecture, General Terms
itchakushuhan 一ちゃく手半

Lit. one and a half *chakushu ちゃく手. Approximately 36.3 cm. A…

Art History, Sculpture
itchō 一丁

Lit. one chō 丁. One folded page of a printed book during the Edo period. Because only one side of a sheet was…

Art History, Painting
itchū 一鋳

Lit. single casting. A term used in metal casting when the entire form of a statue was cast at once, and not in separate…

Art History, Sculpture
itojaku 糸尺

Lit. string plus shaku. A measurement that equals 30.3 cm or about one foot. It is the term used to measure the…

Architecture, Measurement
itomarugawara 糸丸瓦

The smallest semi-circular tile, with a diameter of 7.5 cm. An eave end tile of this size decorated with a comma pattern is…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
itomasa 糸柾

A shortened form of itomasame 糸柾目. Straight, narrow grained wood. Two examples are Japanese arborvitae, nezuko…

Architecture, General Terms
itomen 糸面

A very narrow, chamfer about 3 mm wide, made by planing the corners of posts. The term has been used from the 17th century…

Architecture, General Terms
itsutesaki 五手先

A rare five-stepped bracket complex found at a temple on Sado 佐渡 Island, Niigata Prefecture.

Architecture, General Terms
ittō senrai 一刀三礼

Also ichiji sanrai 一字三礼, ittō sanpai 一刀三拝. Lit. to worship three times with every stroke. A practice…

Art History, Sculpture
ittōbori 一刀彫

Also known as nara ningyō 奈良人形 or narabori 奈良彫. Small wooden sculptures made using a simple, rough-…

Art History, Sculpture
iwa-enogu 岩絵具

Also iwamono 岩物. A paint *enogu 絵具 made from pulverized…

Art History, Painting
iwa-gunjō 岩群青

Abbreviated to *gunjō 群青. A dark blue pigment *…

Art History, Painting
iwa-rokushō 岩緑青

A green pigment *ganryō 顔料 made of malachite. Often abbreviated to *…

Art History, Painting
iwayadō 岩屋堂

A temple hall built into a natural grotto, or a grotto cut from rock high up on the face of a cliff or steep slope. One…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
iwaza 岩座

A base for Buddhist images *daiza 台座, made of rock. It is also referred to as…

Art History, Sculpture
izō 倚像

Also called iza 倚坐, suisokuza 垂足坐, and chōjiza 丁字坐. An image that is seated on a stool or…

Art History, Sculpture
Izumo no Okuni 出雲の阿国

Purported founder of the *kabuki 歌舞伎 theatre and subject of 17th…

Art History, Painting
Izusan Gongen 伊豆山権現

Also called Hashiriyu Gongen 走湯権現. A deity associated with a hot spring which wells up on Izusan 伊豆山, a hill of 166…

Art History, Iconography
Izutsu 井筒

Also Tsutsu izutsu 筒井筒. Lit. a well curb. A painting subject associated with Episode 24 of Ise monogatari…

Art History, Painting

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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