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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
ichi no ji kuzushi 一の字崩 ✓

A decorative pattern used for muntins on sliding doors *shōji 障子, and transoms*…

Architecture, Decorations
ichi no ji tsunagi 一の字繋

A decorative pattern used for muntins on sliding doors *shōji 障子 and transoms*…

Architecture, Decorations
ikazuchimon いかずち文

Lit. lightning pattern. A pattern of thick and thin zig-zag lines. A variation of raimon 雷文 (see *…

Architecture, Decorations
ikken ikka 一間一花 ✓

A type of decorative pattern painted on coffered ceilings *gōtenjō 格天井 or…

Architecture, Decorations
inazumabishi 稲妻菱 ✓

A architectural design pattern in the shape of a diamond, *hishi 菱, which…

Architecture, Decorations
inazumamon 稲妻文 ✓

Also *raimon 雷文. An architectural design pattern thought to be based on flashes…

Architecture, Decorations
inome gegyo 猪目懸魚 ✓

Lit. boar's-eye gable pendant. A gable pendant *gegyo 懸魚, decorated with heart-…

Architecture, Decorations
irihassō 入八双 ✓

Also sakawa kanamono 逆輪金物, saba no o 鯖の尾. An ornamental metal fitting *…

Architecture, Decorations
oigata mon'yō 笈形文様

A pattern drawn on a wall on both sides of a type of post called *kentozuka…

Architecture, Decorations
okkake manji 追掛万字 ✓

A pattern *mon'yō 文様, or mullion *kumiko…

Architecture, Decorations
okurimanji 送り万字

A type of design pattern *mon'yō 文様 or mullion *…

Architecture, Decorations
omogegyo 本懸魚

Lit. "main gable pendant." Also written 主懸魚, ogamigegyo 拝懸魚. A decorative gable pendant *…

Architecture, Decorations
otafukubishi 御多福菱

A decorative diamond pattern created by a series of indented curved lines. Occasionally the pattern is used for mullions *…

Architecture, Decorations

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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