| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| irimoya yane 母屋屋根 | A hip-and-gable roof. In Japanese architecture, the gable part is usually over the core area of the building, *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| irimoya-zukuri 入母屋造 | ✓ | A hip-and-gable roof construction, or a building with this roof construction. A gable type roof has a ridge and gable… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| iriro 入炉 | The placement of the fire-box or hearth cut within the host's mat *temae datami… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| irisumi marugamachi 入角丸框 | The lowest section of a dais *kamachiza 框座 for a Buddhist sculpture that is… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| irisumi 入隅 | ✓ | The internal angle made by the junction of two planes, such as walls, a wall and ceiling, or the inside angle made by the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| irizanebari 入実張 | Also called yatoi zane 雇実; yatoi zanebari 雇実張 or yatoi zanehagi 雇実矧. A plank that is grooved on… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| iro-e 色絵 | Lit. colored picture. 1 A metalwork term for the soldering of thin sheets of gold, silver, or other… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| iro'ochi 色落ち | Lit. missing color. The blank areas on a colored woodblock print *ukiyo-e … |
Art History, Painting | |
| irogami 色紙 | 1 Paper dyed various colors using one of several techniques: sen'izome 繊維染 (raw fibers dyed before… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| iroguma 色暈 | Also written 色隈. A shading *kumadori 隈取 technique which uses… |
Art History, Painting | |
| irori 囲炉裏 | ✓ | Also written 居炉裏. Also called ro 炉. An open hearth set in the floor of various rooms in Japanese buildings.… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| irosashi 色さし | Also pronounced irozashi or written 色指し. |
Art History, Painting | |
| isama 居狭間 | Loopholes or gun ports that are cut in a castle wall at the height of a seated defender's shoulder. The holes are mainly… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| isarai 鋳浚 | Also izarai. A finishing stage in the making of cast metal statues. When a cast statue was removed from its mold,… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Ise monogatari-e 伊勢物語絵 | Illustrations, decorative motifs, or other work of art connected with Ise monogatari 伊勢物語 (The Tales of Ise… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ise torii 伊勢鳥居 | ✓ | Gateways *torii 鳥居, specific to Ise Jingū 伊勢神宮, of which there are two types.… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| ishi no hikae 石の控え | The depth of a stone in a stone wall *ishigaki 石垣. This is the… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| ishi-otoshi 石落 | ✓ | Also termed ishi otoshimado 石落窓. Stone drop, or stone drop window. A castle installation built into the keep *… |
Architecture, Castles |
| ishi 倚子 | A square chair with armrests and a back in the form of a Shinto gateway *torii… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| ishibadate 石場建 | Also kanokodate 鹿の子建 and ishitsuki 石付. A technique used at a folk dwelling to attach a pillar to a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ishibashi 石橋 | Lit. stone bridge. A general term for a garden bridge made of stones, typically granite or schist. Ishibashi may be… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| ishidan 石段 | ✓ | Also *nobedan 延段; tatami ishi 畳石. |
Architecture, Gardens |
| ishidatamimon 石畳文 | ✓ | Also written 甃文. Also arare 霰 or *ichimatatsu 市松. A… |
Art History, Painting |
| ishigaki 石垣 | ✓ | A dry stone wall. A retaining stone foundation wall built without binding materials over an inclined earthen embankment.… |
Architecture, Castles |
| ishigata 石型 | A method of metal casting where the form of the desired object was carved into a sandstone mold, and molten metal was poured… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| ishiguchi 石口 | The point at which a base stone and a pillar are joined. The upper surface of a plinth stone on which another stone may be… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ishigumi 石組 | Lit. stone arrangement. Also called iwagumi. The arrangement of stones for symbolical, functional, or decorative… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| ishijiki 石敷 | ✓ | Lit. stone paving. The place where paving stones are to be laid, or the stones themselves. Stones are carefully selected for… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| Ishikawamon 石川門 | A gate at Kanazawajō 金沢城 (1788) in Ishikawa Prefecture. It is an excellent example of the square *… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| ishiōjō 石王尉 | A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing an old man. The slightly sunken… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| ishioki itabuki 石置板葺 | ✓ | Wood shingles *itabuki 板葺, held in position with stones. Generally used for… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| ishisama 石狭間 | A stone loophole used to fire a gun through a castle wall. Unlike the usual loopholes *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| ishiuchidana 石打棚 | A shelf or platform from which stones or small rocks were hurled against an enemy. This shelf or platform runs along the… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| ishiwari 石割 | 1 The cutting and arrangement of stones. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ishizuri e 石摺絵 | Also mokutaku zuri e 木拓摺絵. A print with a totally black inked background and outlines of forms left white, giving a… |
Art History, Painting | |
| isshi 一枝 | 1 Measurement from rafter center to rafter center. 2 The sum of the width and height of a rafter. |
Architecture, Measurement | |
| isukatsugi いすか継 | ✓ | A halved rabbeted (oblique) scarf joint *sogitsugi 殺継. A… |
Architecture, Joints |
| ita 板 | Also written 鈑 or 版. Originally a relatively thin flat timber, stone, or sheet of metal. In the medieval period (1185-1568… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ita bokashi 板ぼかし | Lit. woodblocking shading. A technique used to produce graduated tones on a woodblock print *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ita-e 板絵 | Lit. paintings on wooden boards. A painting on a wall or door of a temple or shrine. Examples include the paintings on the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ita ishi 板石 | A thin, flat stone resembling a board. Also called a plate stone. The stone can be divided into three types depending on the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ita ranma 板欄間 | ✓ | Traditional transoms that are made of wood and have sections filled with a single board, or one or two parts are filled with… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| ita tenjō 板天井 | Also called itabari tenjō 板張天井 or *hariita tenjō 張板天井… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ita zu 板図 | ✓ | A floor plan for a wooden building drawn by a carpenter on a thin piece of board. The plan does not include detail, but the… |
Architecture, Tools |
| itabei 板塀 | A wooden board or plank fence. Wooden fences made of planks and set directly into the ground are called hottate itabei… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| itabi 板碑 | ✓ | One type of pagoda or stupa, tōba 塔婆, in the form of a flat stone stele that became prevalent in the early 13th… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| itabuki 板葺 | ✓ | Wood shingles. Widely used in Japan for buildings of many kinds, ranging from palaces, elite residences, shrines, and… |
Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings |
| itabuki yane 板葺屋根 | A roof structure covered with boards or planks. Various names are used depending on the size of the boards. A large plan… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| itachigai 板違 | ✓ | Wooden panels with the grain set in alternating directions in a coffered ceiling *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| itadatami 板畳 | 1 The boards covered by tightly woven straw mats *tatami 畳,… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| itadoko 板床 | ✓ | An alcove with a wooden floor instead of a *tatami 畳 mat. There… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| itago 板子 | An Edo period term for wooden planks with a rectangular cross-section, between 5 cm and 30 cm thick. These planks were cut… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| itajiki 板敷 | A common type of wooden board flooring commonly used before thick straw matting *tatami… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| itakarado 板唐戸 | ✓ | Also read itagarado; also called itatobira 板扉. A 6th-7th century door made of a single, thick wooden plank… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| itakōhai 板光背 | Lit. board nimbus. A halo *kōhai 光背 on a Buddhist statue, carved… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| itame 板目 | ✓ | 1 A board cut in such a way that the grain lines are not parallel but instead are rather pointed or having irregular wavy… | Architecture, General Terms |
| itaniwa 板庭 | 1 A low timber platform constructed within the earth-floored area *doma… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| itanoki 板軒 | ✓ | Thick boards used to cover exposed base rafters visible under eaves. Examples: Eihōji Kannondō 永保寺観音堂 (1315), Gifu… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| itaokoshi 板起し | Also hegesoko 扮げ底, heragaeshi 箆返. The method of removing a ceramic tea caddy *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| itaosae 板押 | Also read itaoshi. Battens used to prevent boards from moving. They are long, thin strips of wood set vertically… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| itchakushuhan 一ちゃく手半 | Lit. one and a half *chakushu ちゃく手. Approximately 36.3 cm. A… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| itchō 一丁 | Lit. one chō 丁. One folded page of a printed book during the Edo period. Because only one side of a sheet was… |
Art History, Painting | |
| itchū 一鋳 | Lit. single casting. A term used in metal casting when the entire form of a statue was cast at once, and not in separate… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| itojaku 糸尺 | Lit. string plus shaku. A measurement that equals 30.3 cm or about one foot. It is the term used to measure the… |
Architecture, Measurement | |
| itomarugawara 糸丸瓦 | The smallest semi-circular tile, with a diameter of 7.5 cm. An eave end tile of this size decorated with a comma pattern is… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| itomasa 糸柾 | A shortened form of itomasame 糸柾目. Straight, narrow grained wood. Two examples are Japanese arborvitae, nezuko… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| itomen 糸面 | A very narrow, chamfer about 3 mm wide, made by planing the corners of posts. The term has been used from the 17th century… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| itsutesaki 五手先 | A rare five-stepped bracket complex found at a temple on Sado 佐渡 Island, Niigata Prefecture. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ittō senrai 一刀三礼 | Also ichiji sanrai 一字三礼, ittō sanpai 一刀三拝. Lit. to worship three times with every stroke. A practice… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| ittōbori 一刀彫 | Also known as nara ningyō 奈良人形 or narabori 奈良彫. Small wooden sculptures made using a simple, rough-… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| iwa-enogu 岩絵具 | Also iwamono 岩物. A paint *enogu 絵具 made from pulverized… |
Art History, Painting | |
| iwa-gunjō 岩群青 | Abbreviated to *gunjō 群青. A dark blue pigment *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| iwa-rokushō 岩緑青 | A green pigment *ganryō 顔料 made of malachite. Often abbreviated to *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| iwayadō 岩屋堂 | A temple hall built into a natural grotto, or a grotto cut from rock high up on the face of a cliff or steep slope. One… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| iwaza 岩座 | A base for Buddhist images *daiza 台座, made of rock. It is also referred to as… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| izō 倚像 | Also called iza 倚坐, suisokuza 垂足坐, and chōjiza 丁字坐. An image that is seated on a stool or… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Izumo no Okuni 出雲の阿国 | Purported founder of the *kabuki 歌舞伎 theatre and subject of 17th… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Izusan Gongen 伊豆山権現 | Also called Hashiriyu Gongen 走湯権現. A deity associated with a hot spring which wells up on Izusan 伊豆山, a hill of 166… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| Izutsu 井筒 | Also Tsutsu izutsu 筒井筒. Lit. a well curb. A painting subject associated with Episode 24 of Ise monogatari… |
Art History, Painting |
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