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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
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
hanpi 半臂

Lit. half arm. A sleeveless short undergarment for aristocratic men. From the Nara through the early Heian periods, …

Art History, Crafts
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
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
hidasukimon 火襷文 ✓

Fire-cord design. A decoration used on ceramics. While appearing accidental, this is a method created by the special…

Art History, Crafts
uchikake 打掛

An unbelted woman's outer garment worn over the *kosode 小袖 on formal occasions…

Art History, Crafts
urushi-nuri 漆塗

Lit. "lacquer coating." Lacquerware is also called shikki 漆器 (lacquerware) or nurimono 塗物 (coated things…

Art History, Crafts
urushi 漆

Lacquer. A non-resinous sap taken from Rhus verniciflua, a tree which grows in East Asian countries.…

Art History, Crafts
utsushi 写し

A copy or a facsimile. The term refers not only to copies of calligraphy or painting, but also reproductions of ceramics. In…

Art History, Crafts

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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