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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
Honchō gashi 本朝画史

History of Painting in Japan, a late 17th century compendium of artists' biographies and the history of painting in Japan.…

Art History, Painting, Document
Nanbōroku 南方録

Book of Sen no Rikyū's 千利休 (1522-91) tea ceremony secrets which consists of seven volumes entitled: "Memoranda Oboegaki…

Architecture, Tea Houses, Document
nehon 根本

The Kyoto-Osaka region kamigata 上方 term for a *kabuki 歌舞伎 play book…

Art History, Painting, Document
Niou no Miya 匂宮 ✓

A pictorial subject taken from "Niou no miya" ("His Perfumed Highness" or "Prince Niou"), Chapter 42 of Genji monogatari…

Art History, Painting, Document
Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji 偐紫田舎源氏

Lit. "The False Murasaki and the Rustic Genji." An extremely popular mid-19th century novel written by Ryūtei Tanehiko 柳亭種彦…

Art History, Painting, Document
Nowaki 野分 ✓

A pictorial subject based on "Nowaki" ("The Typhoon"), Chapter 28 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of Genji…

Art History, Painting, Document
Nuetaiji 鵺退治

Lit. "subjugation of the Fabulous Night Monster." A pictorial subject taken from a famous episode in Heike monogatari…

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