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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
Sumiyoshi-ha 住吉派

A school of painting that specialized in the *yamato-e やまと絵…

Art History, Painting
sumiyoshi torii 住吉鳥居

A stone gate-like entrance, torii of the myōjin type *myōjin…

Architecture, Shrines
sumiyoshi-zukuri 住吉造

A style of main sanctuary *honden 本殿 in Shinto shrine…

Architecture, Shrines
sumiyuki hijiki 隅行肘木

Also called *sumihijiki 隅肘木, tsunohijiki 角肘木 and ushihijiki…

Architecture, General Terms
sumiyukibari 隅行梁

A beam that runs parallel to a hip rafter, also called a common rafter *sumigi 隅木, or any…

Architecture, General Terms
sumō-e 相撲絵

Prints of sumō 相撲 wrestlers entering the ring, locked in combat or strolling along busy streets. Together with…

Art History, Painting
sunagata 砂型

A method of metal casting using sand. Sand was contained in a frame, and a raw clay model of the desired object was pressed…

Art History, Sculpture
sunago 砂子

A type of foil *kirihaku 切箔, usually gold or silver, cut so finely that…

Art History, Painting
sunagozuri 砂子摺

Lit. "gold dust printing." A technique used for woodblock printmaking *ukiyo-e…

Art History, Painting
sunasetchin 砂雪隠

Lit. "sand toilet." Originally a functioning toilet for use during tea gatherings, it later became a purely ornamental…

Architecture, Tea Houses
sunazuri 砂摺

A plaster coating on a storehouse wall about 4.5 mm thick. Traditionally the mixture by volume was 10 parts of sand, 15…

Architecture, Storehouses
sundori 寸取

Also suntori; also called issundori 一寸取, sun-osae 寸押 and sunkazoe 寸数. A method of…

Architecture, Measurement
suneate 脛当

Also suneate 臑当. A piece of leather or metal armor used to protect the shin. Used since the Kofun period, and…

Art History, Sculpture
sunoko 簀子 ✓

A slatted floor or duckboard floor made of boards or bamboo laid parallel with space between; each board is called …

Architecture, General Terms
sunokogumi 簀組

Bracket complexes constructed beneath a veranda to give it support.

Architecture, General Terms
sunuki 簀貫

A penetrating beam used as the backing and bracing for the various layers of plaster in the thick walls of a storehouse *…

Architecture, Storehouses
suō 蘇芳

A purplish-red dye senryō 染料 color name, and the plant from which it is made. The su plant sappanwood…

Art History, Painting
suriage shōji 摺上障子 ✓

Also written 摺揚障子. Also called *agesage shōji 上下障子.

Architecture, General Terms
suribotoke 摺仏

Also read shūbutsu. A Buddhist image printed in ink on paper or cloth, and often placed inside a Buddhist statue (…

Art History, Sculpture
surihaku 摺箔

Rubbed metal foil. A decorative technique for textiles in which metal foil is impressed on a design first drawn in paste.…

Art History, Crafts
surimono 摺物

Lit. "printed matter." High quality, privately sponsored woodblock prints mainly produced 1790's-1830's. Originally, the…

Art History, Painting
surinuki 摺抜

Lit. "omitting a printing." An *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 woodblock printmaking…

Art History, Painting
susa すさ

Written susa 寸莎. Also tsuta つた. A generic term for fibrous substances, including straw, hemp, or paper…

Architecture, General Terms
sushiki 素式

1 A wall with an entirely flat white surface.

2 A simple board wall.

Architecture, General Terms
sute-ishi 捨石

Lit. "discarded stone." One of the seven trump stones *nanatsu-ishi…

Architecture, Tea Houses
sutebori 捨堀

Moats dug in open areas some distance from a castle, to hinder the advance of enemy forces.

Architecture, Castles
suteguruwa 捨郭

A sacrificial compound constructed in front of a main compound. A camp used to launch an attacking force. When a force moves…

Architecture, Castles
sutemayu 捨眉

A type of molding *kurigata 繰形 incised on the lower edge of a…

Architecture, Decorations
suteto 捨斗 ✓

Also sutedo. A bracket *tokyō 斗きょう that has the same…

Architecture, General Terms
Suzakumon 朱雀門

The front gate at the center of the south end of the outer enclosure that surrounded the palace compound at Heijō-kyō 平城京…

Architecture, Gates
suzumeguchi 雀口 ✓

Lit. "sparrow entrance, exit." A gap under the eave end tiles *nokisakigawara…

Architecture, General Terms
suzumeodori 雀踊 ✓

Lit. "sparrow dance." A widely-used term for a range of elements used to decorate the ridge of the roof in vernacular houses…

Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings
Suzumushi 鈴虫 ✓

A pictorial subject taken from "Suzumushi" ("The Bell Cricket"), Chapter 38 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale…

Art History, Painting
suzuri 硯

Also written 研. Inkstone. A base made of stone or other material used for grinding *sumi…

Art History, Painting
suzuribako 硯箱

A box designed to hold an inkstone *suzuri 硯 and other writing tools, such as an…

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