| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| hachi 鉢 | Also hōbachi 宝鉢 (Sk: patra). A bowl used by Buddhist monks for meals, and as a begging bowl. The hachi is rounded and deep… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hachibushū 八部衆 | Abbreviation of Tenryū hachibushū 天竜八部衆. Eight classes of Indian deities who were converted by *… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| hachidai dōji 八大童子 | Lit. eight great youths. Eight attendants of either *Monju 文殊 or more commonly *… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| hachijisshu gō 八十種好 | Also read hachijū shukō, hachijū zuigyōgō 八十随形好 hachijū zuigōsō 八十随好相. The 80 auspicious bodily… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hachimae-no-ishigumi 鉢前の石組 | A washstand placed near a veranda or in the corner of an open veranda, shoin zashiki 書院座敷, or in the chief priest's… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hachimaki 鉢巻 | ✓ | The name for a thickly plastered area projecting from the wall below the eaves of a building. Used on storehouses, *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hachimaki doi 鉢巻土居 | A "headband" earthen embankment. An earthen embankment with a stone wall constructed on the upper portion. Also … |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hachiman torii 八幡鳥居 | ✓ | A pillar of the shinmei type, *shinmei torii 神明鳥居, with no… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| hachiman-zukuri 八幡造 | A style of shrine architecture characterized by a structure which from the side-view gives the impression of two separate… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| hachimonjiyabon 八文字屋本 | Refers to the books of the floating world, *ukiyo zōshi 浮世草子, published by… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hachiro 八炉 | ✓ | The eight basic ways of positioning a hearth, *ro 炉, in a tea ceremony room, *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| hachiyō 八葉 | Lit. eight leaves. Also hachiyō kanagu 八葉金具. A metal decoration carved into the shape of eight petals with a central… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| hachiyō fukuben rengemon 八葉複弁蓮華文 | A decorative stylized lotus-flower pattern, *rengemon 蓮華文, found on eaves… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| hada noshigawara 肌熨斗瓦 | 1 The second layer of tiles that is curved and set at a same angle to the first layer of tiles, … |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| hadakaniwa 裸庭 | Lit. naked or bare yard. A term for the earth-floored area, *doma 土間, in… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| haegi 延木 | Also haigi. An archaic term for *nodaruki, 野垂木 (a hidden rafter). A… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hafu kazari kanagu 破風飾金具 | Also hafu kanagu 破風金具. Decorative metal fittings, *kazari kanagu… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| hafu kojiri 破風木尻 | Also written 破風鐺, hafujiri 破風尻, or hafubana 破風鼻. The lower end of a bargeboard on a hip-and-gable… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hafu ogami 破風拝 | ✓ | Also called hafugashira, 破風頭, or hafu-no-ogami, 破風の拝. The joint between two bargeboards, hafu-ita… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hafu 破風 | Also written 搏風. Also called hafu-ita 破風板. A bargeboard. Straight or curved boards laid flat against the ridge ends… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hafugoshi 破風腰 | The center of a bargeboard, *hafu 破風, which is determined by its length. It… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Hafuki no Amida 歯吹きの阿弥陀 | Lit. *Amida, 阿弥陀, with teeth exposed. An image of a standing Amida with his… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| hagarazai 端柄材 | Also written 羽柄材. Also called hagaramono, 端柄物, 羽柄物; or yamabikizai 山挽材. A general term for trimmed boards… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hagi 矧 | ✓ | A suffix used to describe edge joints of various types.
|
Architecture, Joints |
| hagitsuke 矧付 | The joining or gluing together of parts when making a wooden statue or vessel. Originally the term meant sticking feathers… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hagiyaki 萩焼 | ✓ | Hagi ware. A general name for pottery made in the Matsumoto, 松本, area of western Hagi City, and in Nagato Fukawa, 長門深川, in… |
Art History, Crafts |
| Hahakigi 帚木 | ✓ | A pictorial subject taken from "The Broom Tree," Hahakigi, Chapter 2 of Genji Monogatari 源氏物語 (The… |
Art History, Painting |
| haibutsu 廃仏 | Lit. abolish Buddha. It was government policy during the early Meiji period to repress Buddhism in favor of Shinto which was… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| haichi-zu 配置図 | A layout drawing on a plot plan showing topography in minute detail and the position of buildings within the boundaries of a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| haiden 拝殿 | ✓ | A worship hall at a Shinto shrine, usually placed on the same axis as the offering hall, *… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| haiga 俳画 | Simple paintings which accompany and interact with the 17-syllable poetic verse called haiku, 俳句. Haiga is… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hainobe 配延 | Also hainobi 配延び or nobi 延び. A carpenters' standard term for extensions created by slopes. Example: Where the horizontal… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| haiseki 拝石 | Lit. worship stone. A type of trump stone *yaku-ishi 役石 from which one can… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| haiseki 配石 | Lit. stone arrangement. To arrange stones in consideration of their shape, color, and character. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| haitsuke daruki 配付垂木 | ✓ | Also sashidaruki 挿垂木 or 指垂木. To join rafters *taruki 垂木 which is… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hajikidake 弾竹 | Also bakuchiku-bashira 爆竹柱. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hakamagoshi 袴腰 | ✓ | 1 A trapezoidal form created on top of the posts that frame the host's entrance *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses, Structures, Buildings |
| hakamazuri-ishi 袴ずり石 | Lit. hakama 袴 brushing stone. A name for the front stone in a stone grouping arranged around a low basin *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hakarihijiki 秤肘木 | ✓ | A single bracket arm *hijiki 肘木, which is set into a large bearing block *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hake 刷毛 | A wide, multi-purpose brush made of animal hair attached to a wooden handle. Hake range in size from 3 cm to 18 cm… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hakkaku butsuden 八角仏殿 | An octagonal hall in a Buddhist temple. One or more Buddhist deities are enshrined within. The record Shizaichō… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hakkaku enden 八角円殿 | An octagonal hall. Temple records owned by Hōryūji 法隆寺 and Gangōji 元興寺 mention the existence of a hakkaku enden as… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hakkaku endō 八角円堂 | Lit. eight-sided circular. An octagonal circular hall *hakkakudō 八角堂,… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hakkakudō 八角堂 | ✓ | Also called *hakkaku endō 八角円堂. An octagonal hall. There are six… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hakkakuotoshi-no-kado 八角落の角 | ✓ | Also yatsunaka-no-korobi 八中の転. The method used to determine the incline of the main posts of a *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hakkakutō 八角塔 | ✓ | An octagonal pagoda of which there is only one in Japan. Although a plan to erect an octagonal pagoda existed at Saidaiji… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hakkei 八景 | Lit. eight views. Eight scenic spots from one geographic area specifically chosen to be treated in verse or pictures. The… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Hakkenden 八犬伝 | Lit. biographies of eight dogs. A pictorial subjectin *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 taken from… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hakkyakumon 八脚門 | ✓ | Also read yatsuashimon. Also called sangenikkomon 三間一戸門 or sangen sankomon 三間三戸門 depending upon… |
Architecture, Gates |
| hakobutsu 箱仏 | A Buddhist image contained in a box-shaped miniature shrine. Two symmetrical rectangular wings flank a main image, carved in… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hakogata jōgi 箱型定規 | Box-shaped measuring tool used when inking and marking off a pillar in order to fit the horizontal beams surrounding a… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| hakokaidan 箱階段 | ✓ | Also referred to as hakodan 箱段 and hakohashigo 箱梯子. A combined stairway and storage chest, common in town… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| hakokanagu 箱金具 | Also hakokanamono 箱金物, *makikanagu 巻金具, makikanamono 巻金物. U-strap, strap, stirrup.… | Architecture, Decorations | |
| hakomune 箱棟 | A prominent box-like ridge framed in timber astride the apex of a roof. In section it resembles a miniature building with a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hakozaki torii 筥崎鳥居 | Also called Hakozaki Hachimangū 筥崎八幡宮, Hakozaki no Miya 筥崎宮 or Hizen torii 肥前鳥居. A stone pillar type of gate characterized… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| haku 箔 | Lit. foil or leaf. Gold, silver, copper, tin, or brass pounded into a thin flat sheet and used for the decoration of art… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Haku Ga Shō Shiki 伯牙鍾子期 | Ch: Bo Ya Zhong Ziqi. A pictorial theme of friendship in Chinese painting. When the Zhou dynasty musician Bo Ya (Jp: … |
Art History, Painting | |
| Haku Raku soba 伯楽粗馬 | Lit. Be Le assessing a horse. A Chinese painting subject of the 4th century horse trainer named Be Le (Jp: Haku Raku… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Haku Rakuten 白楽天 | Ch: Bai Letian (772-846). A Chinese poet of the mid-Tang dynasty, depicted in a tradition of imaginary portrait paintings.… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hakubyō 白描 | Although the term literally means white drawing, hakubyō 白描 is a technique of painting that relies primarily on the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hakudo 白土 | Kaolin. Also todo とど. A fine soft white clay produced by the decomposition of other clays feldspar. Hakudo… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hakuga 帛画 | Painting on silk. In ancient China, before paper-making was developed, silk or haku (also called so 繪) was… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Hakuhō jidai 白鳳時代 | The Hakuhō period (645-710) referred to in recent scholarship as the Late Asuka period, Asuka jidai kōki 飛鳥時代後期.… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| Hakui Shukusei 伯夷叔斉 | Ch: Boyi Shuqi. Brothers who lived during the late Shang - early Zhou dynasties, who were praised by Confucius for declining… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hakuoshi 箔押 | Also hakuire 箔入れ, hakuoki 箔置き. Making a design by stitching gold, silver, or colored foil with glue onto… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Hakusan mandara 白山曼荼羅 | Devotional paintings of the cult of Hakusan 白山 (white mountains), a group of mountains that border Gifu, Fukui,… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| hakushi 薄師 | An artist who applies gold or silver leaf *shippaku 漆箔 to the surface of a… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Hamagurimon 蛤門 | ✓ | Lit. clam gate. One of the four gates on the westside of the outer enclosure of Kyoto Gosho 京都御所. Altogether there were nine… |
Architecture, Gates |
| hamamatsu-zu 浜松図 | Paintings of a flat, undulatory sandy beach or sand spit with windswept pines, a traditional theme of *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hamayuka 浜床 | Also called *chōdai 帳台 in the Heian period.
|
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hame-ishi 羽目石 | Also written 嵌石. A stone panel. A component of the formal style podium *danjōzumi… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hame-ita 羽目板 | Also written 嵌板. A wooden panel or board used as wall covering. It may be horizontally or vertically set. The boards may… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hamegi 嵌め木 | A plug used in *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 woodblock printmaking for making corrections or… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hamontai 波文帯 | Also called a zigzag motif *inazumamon 稲妻文 or a saw tooth pattern *… | Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| han-nageshi 半長押 | ✓ | Lit. half non-penetrating horizontal beam. A non-penetrating beam which is 3/5 the diameter of a building 's main pillar… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| han-noshigawara 半熨斗瓦 | Rectangular ridge tiles with half the width of an ordinary ridge tile *noshigawara… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| Han Rō 潘閬 | Ch: Pan Lang. Chinese Zhou dynasty recluse, originally a retainer of King Mu (Ch: Muwang; Jp: Bokuō 穆王, ca. 1001-972 BC).… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hana-akarimado 花明窓 | Also kameimado, *oribemado 織部窓, *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hana 鼻 | ✓ | Lit. nose. Also called hanasaki 鼻先. The end or tip of a structural member such as a beam, rafter end, ridge end,… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| Hana no en 花宴 | ✓ | Pictorial Subject matter of *yamato-e やまと絵 painting. "The… |
Art History, Painting |
| hanabishi mon'yō 花菱文様 | ✓ | Also hanabishimon 花菱文. Decorative patterns *mon'yō 文様, or… |
Art History, Painting |
| Hanachirusato 花散里 | ✓ | A pictorial subject based on Chapter 11 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of Genji), "The Orange Blossoms" … |
Art History, Painting |
| hanagarami 鼻絡 | A relatively small tie beam placed slightly inside and under the eave ends on a board roof. It not only ties the boards… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| hanagawara 花瓦 | Also hashigawara 端瓦. Lit. flower tile. An edge or border tile originally, the word came to replace the more… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| hanaguri 鼻繰 | A generic name for moldings *kurigata 繰形, used on the edge of bracket arms *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| hanahijiki 花肘木 | ✓ | Lit. flower bracket arm. A decorative bracket arm *hijiki 肘木 that appeared in… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hanahiragawara 端平瓦 | A broad, concave end tile that alternates with an eave end semi-circular tile surmounted with a circular pendant *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| hanaikada 花筏 | Lit. flower raft. A decorative, floral pattern popular in the Momoyama period. The design is said to be derived from a… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| hanaire 花入 | A container for displaying flowers, or a flower vase. Generally, there are three types found in tea ceremony rooms *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hanakakushi-ita 鼻隠板 | ✓ | A fascia board. A board nailed flat against the rafter ends, characteristic of the daibutsu style *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hanakobu akujō 鼻瘤悪尉 | Bumpynosed fierce old man. A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hanakugi 花釘 | ✓ | A nail used to hang a flower vase in a tea ceremonyroom *chashitsu 茶室. Some… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| hanakuidorimon 花喰鳥文 | A pattern that features flying birds grasping flowers or small branches in their beaks. The design may feature phoenixes,… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hanakumiko 花組子 | Also hanako 花子. Decorative petal-shaped muntins found on doors *shōji… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| hanamarugawara 端丸瓦 | An old name for semi circular eave end tiles *nokimarugawara 軒丸瓦. Also… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| hanamarunoko 鼻丸鋸 | Also known as anahikinoko 穴挽鋸. A round-nose roughing saw. The name is derived from the shape of the top of the… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| hanamashi 鼻増 | Also sorimashi 反増; terimashi 照増. The gradual increase in height toward the ends of rafters *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hanamichi 花道 | Lit.flower path. A long elevated walkway on the left side of a *kabuki… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hanamoya 鼻母屋 | Pole plates. Horizontal members that are positioned on the outer end of raking beams *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hanaranma 花欄間 | Also called hanasama ranma 花狭間欄間 or *hanazama 花狭間. A… |
Architecture, Decorations |
Displaying 1 - 100 of 628