| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| hanashibon 噺本 | Also written 咄本 or 話本. Lit. storybooks. Collections of humorous short stories and anecdotes popular during the Edo period.… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hanasogawara はなそ瓦 | ✓ | A semi-circular convex tile with a pendant *gatō 瓦当, attached to… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| hanazama 花狭間 | ✓ | Also hanasama.
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Architecture, Decorations |
| hanbashira 半柱 | Lit. half column. Also katabutabashira 片蓋柱 (half-covered pillar). The half visible column on the exterior or… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hanchiku 版築 | Also read banchiku. A method of making the core of a podium *danjōzumi… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Handaza 吐田座 | One of the painting guilds or studios za 座 in the atelier *nanto-edokoro… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hanebashi 桔橋 | Also written 刎橋. A draw bridge. A bridge that has a metal hinge attached to the castle side and a rope attached to the the… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hanedashi nikai はね出し二階 | ✓ | A jettied upper floor projecting beyond the plane of the line of posts defining the limit of the lower part of a town house… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| hanegi 桔木 | A cantilever. A heavy, rough member used in a hidden roof *noyane … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hanegimakura 桔木枕 | Lit. a cantilever pillow. A transverse beam supported by the eave purlin *dashigeta… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hanegiosae 桔木押 | A beam running at a right angle to the cantilevers *hanegi 桔木, used in a hidden… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hangan 半眼 | Half-open eyes. The eyes of the Buddha, narrowed when he concentrates in meditation. |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hangata 判型 | The standard size of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 prints. Print sizes are given in the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hangi 版木 | Also called ita 板. The wood used for the curved blocks which make woodblock prints *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hanji-e 判じ絵 | A print based on a rebus. A collection of images that might suggest a place name, the name of a courtesan, or a phrase from… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hanjōroku 半丈六 | Lit. half *jōroku 丈六. A measure of height for a Buddhist statue. Eight … |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hanka fuza 半跏趺坐 | Also hanka 半跏, hankaza 半跏坐, hanfuza 半趺坐, daibosatsuza 大菩薩坐, and bosatsuza 菩薩坐.… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hankirizuma-zukuri 半切妻造 | ✓ | Also called hakamagoshi yane 袴腰屋根, or kabutoyane 兜屋根. A style of roof similar to the hipped roof *… |
General Terms, Architecture |
| hankōran 半高欄 | A simple style of balustrade placed around a low, step-like veranda *hamayuka… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hanmasugata 半桝形 | A type of protective box-shaped enclosure *masugata 桝形, found at a castle… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hanme 半目 | Also called hankirime 半切目. Wale next to the binding of a straw mat *tatami… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hanmekiri 半目切 | Also called *hanme 半目; kogirime 小切目. The partially exposed wale next to… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hannya 般若 | A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a female serpent-demon filled… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Hannya bosatsu 般若菩薩 | In full Hannya-haramitsu (or Hannya-haramitta) bosatsu 般若波羅蜜(般若波羅蜜多)菩薩. A bodhisattva *… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| hanpi 半臂 | Lit. half arm. A sleeveless short undergarment for aristocratic men. From the Nara through the early Heian periods, … |
Art History, Crafts | |
| hanpon 版本 | Also written 板本.
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Art History, Painting | |
| hansetsu 半切 | Also written 半折 and 半截. A size of paper obtained when full-size paper *zenshi… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hanshi 半紙 | Also written 判紙. A small-sized paper, approximately 25 cm by 35 cm. Being a convenient size for a variety of documents, … |
Art History, Painting | |
| hanshige daruki 半繁垂木 | The distance between two rafters of this type is equal to the sum of the height of a rafter plus the width of its bottom… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hanshita 版下 | Abbreviation of hanshita-e 版下絵. The final master drawing or design which was used by an artist or his workshop to… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hanshōji 半障子 | A sliding screen made of a light wooden frame covered with translucent paper. It is about 1 m-1.3 m high. 1.3 m hanshōji… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hanshōjibusuma 半障子襖 | Also called han-akarishōji 半明障子. A pair of sliding screens with a lattice frame covered with translucent paper *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hara 腹 | Lit. belly. The concave underside, of a curved beam, for example, a curved transverse beam *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| haraidono 祓殿 | Lit. purification hall. Also read haraedono. Also haraidokoro 祓所. A hall where Shinto priests or lay… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| harakugi 腹釘 | Nails driven into the sides of a board that is parallel to its edges in order to stabilize it. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hari 梁 | ✓ | A transverse or cross beam positioned at a right angle to a roof ridge. It stretches the width of a building to receive the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| haribako-e 貼箱絵 | Pictures on paper pasted onto small boxes and prized by women and girls in the early 18th century. Most of the pictures were… |
Art History, Painting | |
| haribasami 梁挟 | Also called haritsunagi 梁繋. Tie beams that run parallel to the roof ridge. One is positioned across the upper… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| harichigae tenjō 張違天井 | A ceiling which is embellished with wooden squares of different kinds placed in a checker-board pattern. The ribs of a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| harigawara 張瓦 | Also written 貼瓦. Also called haritsukegawara 張付瓦 or 貼付瓦. Tiles applied to a wall. |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| harigedai 貼外題 | A strip of paper encircling the outside cover *hyōshi 表紙 of a book, on which… |
Art History, Painting | |
| harigumi 梁組 | Also called kōka 構架. The beam system of a roof. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hariita tenjō 張板天井 | A plain board ceiling. When paper or silk are pasted over the ceiling boards for decorative purposes, the ceiling is called… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| harima 梁間 | Also referred to as *hariyuki 梁行; also written 張り間.… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| harimaze-e 張交絵 | Also written 貼交絵. Prints of two or more subjects on a single page. Most common are colored paper shapes, poem-card *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| haritsuke-e 貼付絵 | Also haritsukega 貼付画. Abbreviation of kabe haritsuke-e 壁貼付絵. Paintings on paper (or infrequently on silk)… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hariwaku 張枠 | A thin (1.5 cm+), flat wooden frame glued to silk to stabilize it while it is being painted *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hariyuki 梁行 | Transverse beams that run at right angles to lengthwise beams. In Japanese architecture hariyuki usually run the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hasami shikii kamoi 挟敷居鴨居 | The threshold and head jamb used for a single sliding door at the guest's entrance *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| Hasegawa-ha 長谷川派 | A school of painters active in the 16th century and the 17th century, founded by Hasegawa Tōhaku 長谷川等伯 (1539-1610) who is… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hashi 階 | Also read kizahashi, kidahashi. Lit. a step, stair, stairway, staircase. Hashi is used to refer… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hashibami 端喰 | ✓ | Also written hashibame 端嵌. Narrow long strips of wood made to cover the top and bottom of doors composed of several… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hashibasami-ishi 橋挟石 | ✓ | Lit. bridge-anchoring stones. The stones placed at the four corners of a stone bridge ishibashi 石橋. Also called the… | Architecture, Gardens |
| hashidono 橋殿 | ✓ | Lit. bridge building. A wooden structure (3 × 4 bays) built over a stream. It is closely related to the kaguraden… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| Hashihime 橋姫 | ✓ | 1 A pictorial subject based on "The Lady at the Bridge" Hashihime, Chapter 45 of Genji… |
Art History, Painting, Sculpture |
| hashikakushi 階隠 | 1 A pent roof built above the stairs on one side of the annex tai-no-ya 対の屋 in aristocratic style… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hashikakushi-no-ma 階隠の間 | Also hikakushi-no-ma 日隠の間, hashi-no-ma 階の間, or mihashi-no-ma 御階の間. The space between the posts at… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hashira-e 柱絵 | 1 Paintings e 絵 executed on the interior pillars *hashira… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hashira-ishi 柱石 | Also called *kutsu-ishi 沓石 (boot stone). Lit. post stone. Usually a square foundation… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| hashira 柱 | ✓ | The generic term for any type of pillar, column, post, pier, and strut, the basic members of Japanese timber architecture.… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hashiraban 柱盤 | A pillar base. A long beam which forms the base for pillars or posts in the upper part of a building. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hashirakugi 柱釘 | Also *hanakugi 花釘. A nail on which a flower vase can be hung. It is nailed… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hashirama sōchi 柱間装置 | A generic term in traditional architecture referring to any architectural element with an interior finish found within a bay… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hashirama 柱間 | A bay or span. The distance between pillars, measuring from the center of the pillars. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hashirasuji 柱筋 | The direction of a line of pillars. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hashirayose 柱寄 | An ancient word meaning the same as *hōdate 方立, a vertical member placed on… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hashirō 橋廊 | A bridge-like corridor that spans a garden pond or an area between two buildings. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hassen 八仙 | Ch: baxian. Lit. eight immortals. The eight figures considered to be the experts in and protectors of Taoism. The impetus… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Hasshu gafu 八種画譜 | Ch: Bazhong huapu. Primer on Eight Varieties of Painting, a compilation of eight texts on poetry and painting… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hassō 発装 | Also written 八双, 雙双, 八宗. Can also be called hyōmoku 表木 when referring to hanging scrolls *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hassō kanagu 八双金具 | ✓ | Also called hassō kanamono 八双金物; sakawa kanagu 逆輪金具 or saba-no-o 鯖の尾. Lit. twin… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| Hassōtobi 八艘飛 | An abbreviation for Yoshitsune hassōtobi 義経八艘飛 or Yoshitsune's Leap over Eight Boats, one of the many… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hata-ita 鰭板 | Also read hire-ita but this reading is considered to be incorrect according to the Kaokuzakkō 家屋雑考 (… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hatachi amari 二十余 | Also written 廿一. Lit. Barely twenty. Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing the… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hatagoya 旅籠屋 | Also hatago 旅篭. A common term for an inn from the late Heian to the early modern periods. In the ancient period,… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| hatasode 鰭袖 | Also hatasode 端袖, hiresode 鰭袖. A style of sleeve found on Buddhist images. The sleeve of the robe is tied… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hatchū-zukuri 八注造 | Also called hakkaku yane 八角屋根. The eight-sided roof of an octagonal hall *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hatsu-no-ishi 初の石 | Lit. first stone. The stone nearest the crawl-in entrance *nijiriguchi… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hatsuboku 溌墨 | Ch: pomo. Lit. splashed ink. An ink painting *suibokuga 水墨画… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Hatsune 初音 | ✓ | A pictorial subject taken from "The First Warbler" or more literally "The First Song," Chapter 23 of Genji monogatari… |
Art History, Painting |
| hattō 法堂 | ✓ | A lecture hall which corresponds to the *kōdō 講堂 in temples of… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| hayashiza 囃子座 | The place on a noh stage *nōbutai 能舞台 where three or four musicians sit,… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hazama-ishi 狭間石 | 1 Also read sama-ishi. Rough stones placed between pillar base stones when a building is erected… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hegi へぎ | Written 折, 片木, or 剥.
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Art History, Sculpture | |
| hegi-ita 枌板 | Also written 剥板; sogi-ita 殺板, 曽木板.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| Heian jidai 平安時代 | The Heian period (794-1185), during which Heiankyō 平安京 (later, Kyoto) became the political and cultural capital of Japan.… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| Heiankyū 平安宮 | Heian Imperial Palace, located in the northern part of the Heian Capital. Enclosed by clay walls, buildings included the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| heichi jūkyo 平地住居 | A type of house in which the floor is level with the surface of the ground, rather than excavated into it like a pit-… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| heidatsu 平脱 | Ch. Pingtuo. A technique in which thin sheets of metal are cut into decorative shapes and set in a lacquer base;… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| heiden 幣殿 | A shrine building, usually located on the same axis as the worship hall *haiden… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| heijiku 幣軸 | ✓ | Also hezuke or henzuke 辺付. Thought to be a corruption of a term used in Shōsōin documents Shōsōin… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| heijūmon 塀重門 | Also written 塀中門 and sometimes read heichōmon; also called heichimon or heijimon 塀地門 or … |
Architecture, Gates | |
| Heike-e 平家絵 | Lit. paintings of Heike. The usual abbreviation of Heike monogatari-e 平家物語絵, illustrations of famous incidents… |
Art History, Painting | |
| heikō daruki 平行垂木 | ✓ | Rafters laid parallel to each other from the ridge almost to the eave ends. When parallel rafters reach the corner of the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| heimen-zu 平面図 | 1 Also *fuse-zu 伏図. The two-dimensional drawing of… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| heishi 瓶子 | Also heiji. A type of wine vessel with a long slim neck with narrow mouth and round bottom, or narrow mouth, round waist… | Art History, Crafts | |
| heishitaji nuki-no-ireyō 塀下地貫入様 | A method used to insert braces into an earthen wall. One brace was placed above the upper cross piece. Another brace was… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| heishitaji 塀下地 | The material used to build an earthen wall for a castle. This material must be harder than that used for residences in… | Architecture, Castles | |
| heita 平太 | A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a strong warrior in full maturity. Wide open… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| heitenseki 平天石 | Lit. flat top stone. A name for stones flattened on the top side. Heitenseki may be used to express the wings of… |
Architecture, Gardens |
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