| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| kasan 仮山 | Lit. artificial mountain. Also read kazan, or kasansui 仮山水. A general term referring to an artificial… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kasane izutsu 重井筒 | A pattern formed by interweaving the strokes ofthe character 井 'i ' meaning 'well'. |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kasane-umadashi 重馬出 | Multiple barriers *umadashi 馬出, erected or naturally occurring… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kasane 重ね | 1 The area where members such as siding boards shitami-ita 下見板 (see *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kasanezaka 重坂 | Also read kasanarizaka. A type of warrior run *mushabashiri… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kasatōba 笠塔婆 | ✓ | Also called kasasotōba 笠卒都婆. A memorial or grave stone. The most common has a square shaft *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| Kasei bunka 化政文化 | The culture of the Bunka 文化 (1804-18) and Bunsei 文政 eras (1818-30), and by extension, that of the late Edo period as a whole… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| kasen-e 歌仙絵 | ✓ | Images of the so-called immortal poets kasen 歌仙, distinguished historical poets of waka 和歌 (Japanese 31… |
Art History, Painting |
| kashigidono 炊殿 | Also mikashigidono 御炊殿
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Architecture, Shrines | |
| kashii-zukuri 香椎造 | A style of building used for the sanctuary *honden 本殿, at a… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| kashima torii 鹿島鳥居 | ✓ | Shinmei type pillars *shinmei torii 神明鳥居,… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| kashirabori 頭彫 | Lit. head carving. The title of the master engraver and also of the engraving process by which the key block *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kashiranageshi 頭長押 | A horizontal, non-penetrating head beam nailed along the outside and inside of the top face of pillars. If the nails show,… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kashiranuki 頭貫 | ✓ | Horizontal head penetrating tie beams that are connected to the tops of pillars to make them secure. These tie beams may be… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| Kashiwagi 柏木 | ✓ | A pictorial subject taken from "The Oak Tree" Kashiwagi, a type of oak, Quercus deutata, Chapter 36 of Genji… |
Art History, Painting |
| kassen-zu 合戦図 | Lit. battle pictures. Edo period depictions of warfare from the 16th and early 17th centuries as well as scenes from the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kasshiki 喝食 | A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a Zen temple boy in training who serves in the… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Kasuga mandara 春日曼荼羅 | Devotional paintings of the deities and landscape of Kasuga Taisha 春日大社 which was founded in Nara in the 8th century as the… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| kasuga torii 春日鳥居 | ✓ | A shinmei type of shrine gate *shinmeitorii 神明鳥居. The two… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| kasuga-zukuri 春日造 | A style of shrine architecture employed in main sanctuaries *honden … |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| kasugai 鎹 | ✓ | A cleat. A strip of metal or wood driven into two members to hold them together securely. A metal cleat that is bent at each… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kasumi 霞 | ✓ | 1 A pattern representing mist, often stylized into shapes like the ideographs 工 or 王. It is used as a… |
Architecture, General Terms, Art History, Painting |
| kasumidoko 霞床 | Also kasumidoko-no-seki 霞床の席. An alcove *tokonoma 床の間, with… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kasuriori 絣織 | A plain weave fabric with designs developed in India and brought to Japan via Indonesia (where it is called ikat), then… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| kata-ita 形板 | Also written 型板. A template. Boards cut with designs that can be traced onto members that require moldings. For example, the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kata 肩 | 1 Lit. shoulder. The shoulder of a tea ceremony tea caddy or tea jar *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| katabiki shōji 片引障子 | ✓ | Also katahiki shōji. A single, horizontally sliding translucent screen *shōji… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| katabikido 片引戸 | Lit. one-way pull door. A single leaf sliding door that is pulled left and right to open and close. There are two sliding… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| katabira 帷 | Also written 帷子. An unlined garment worn in summer since the Heian period. For court nobles, it was woven with cotton, hemp… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| katabiraki 片開 | Lit. single swinging door. A rotating door katabirakido 片開戸, or window katabirakimado 片開窓, that… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kataji 硬地 | A preliminary layer of lacquer applied to a wooden surface to reinforce and preserve the wood. *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| katakui 肩喰 | An animal-head decoration found on the shoulders of a soldier's armor yoroi 鎧. Often a lion's head *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| katamen-zukuri 片面造 | A construction method that uses half brackets on top of the corners in the inner worship sanctuary *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| katamigawari 片身替 | A popular simple, bold *kosode 小袖 design from the Kamakura… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| katamochi 型持 | Also okigata 置型. A device used in metal casting. Often, in metal casting, a double mold was used, consisting of an… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| katanagare 片流 | Also *nagare 流. The slope, in one direction, of one side of a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| katanagareyō 片流様 | An oblong island created in a garden pond. Although it is a fabrication, its appearance seems genuine due to the natural… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| katanaka 片中 | A common abbreviation for katanakazumi 片中隅. The point that indicates 1/4 of the entire length of a structural… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| katanakake 刀掛 | ✓ | A single or double rack usually found at the outside left of a tea house entrance to hold the swords of warriors. Part of… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| katanakake-ishi 刀掛石 | Lit. sword rack stone. The trump stone *yaku-ishi 役石 set in… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kataorido 片折戸 | A folding door that is hinged to a single gate post. When the leaf attached to the gate post is pulled closed, the folding… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| katasuso 肩裾 | Lit. shoulders and hem. The type of *kosode 小袖 decoration where… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| katekyū カテキュー | Catechu, cutch. A brown vegetable dye taken from a leguminous plant Acacia catechu wild, grown in S.E. Asia. The stems and… |
Art History, Painting | |
| katō 火灯 | Also written 花頭, 華頭, 架灯. A shape used for windows in Zen style architecture *zenshūyō… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| katō kyokusen 火灯曲線 | A specific arrangement of curved lines found on top of an arched window called *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| katōgaki 火灯垣 | Lit. flame fence. A type of fence with an ogee-arched entrance. See *katō 火灯… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| katōguchi 火灯口 | Also written 花頭口, 火頭口, 華頭口. Also called *sadōguchi 茶道口 or *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| katōmado 火灯窓 | ✓ | Also written 花頭窓. A synonym for genjimado 源氏窓. The name is derived from the window in the room called Genji-no-ma… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| Katsukawa-ha 勝川派 | Lit. Katsukawa school. A school of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 artists who… |
Art History, Painting | |
| katsuma 羯磨 | 1 Sanskrit; karma. A deed, interpreted according to the Buddhist laws of cause and effect. |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| katsuma mandara 羯磨曼荼羅 | A form of mandala *mandara 曼荼羅 in which the deities are… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| katsuogi 堅魚木 | ✓ | Also written 鰹木, 勝男木, 葛緒木. Also called kasoegi 斗木. Wooden billets placed atop and at right angle to a roof ridge,… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| katsura 葛 | The building material, such as rough or dressed stone, that forms the horizontal edge of a podium *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| katsura-ishi 葛石 | Also pronounced kazura-ishi; also written 桂石.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| katsuragaki 桂垣 | The bamboo fence that surrounds the Katsura Rikyū 桂離宮 in Kyoto. The fence it is widely imitated today. At given intervals… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| katsuragi 葛城 | An arrowroot vine fortress. A temporary fortification that dates to the ancient period. Similar to a briar tree fortresses… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| katte mawari 勝手廻り | A part of a house in the vicinity of the kitchen; *katte 勝手, *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| katte 勝手 | The term is believed to signify a place where one cooks food, kate wo kashigu 糧を炊ぐ, in use since the Kamakura… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses | |
| kattedoko 勝手床 | Lit. kitchen alcove. Also teishudoko 亭主床. Sometimes called *gezadoko… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| katteguchi 勝手口 | 1 A service or tradesmen's entry. A house entry that lead to the kitchen; *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses | |
| kawabashira 側柱 | Also pronounced gawabashira. The pillars or posts placed on the perimeter of a building to form the basic framework… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kawadodai 側土台 | Also pronounced gawadodai. The ground sill under the outer wall of a traditional architectural structure. … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kawara 瓦 | Lit. tile. The roofing material made of fired clay introduced to Japan from Korea (Paekche Kingdom, Jp: *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| kawaraban 瓦版 | Lit. roof-tile print. Also later known as yomiuri 読売 (sell by reading), because newsprint vendors read their… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kawarabuki 瓦葺 | Also kawarabuki yane 瓦葺屋根, kawarayane 瓦屋根. Tile roofing. A roof covered with fired clay tiles usually… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| kawarabukishi 瓦葺師 | A craftsman who tiles roofs, especially in the area of Kawachinagano 河内長野, and in the vicinity of Osaka. |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| kawaragushi 瓦櫛 | A tiled ridge on the roofs of thatched vernacular houses *minka 民家 in parts of… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kawarahisashi 瓦廂 | Also pronounced kawarabisashi. A tiled pent roof. The term is especially common in Hyōgo Prefecture where a smaller… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| kawarajakuri 瓦决 | Grooves made on roof timber, kawarazan 瓦桟, to prevent roof tiles from slipping. A wedge-shaped board *… | Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| kawarajiki 瓦敷 | A floor that consists of tiles placed over hard-pack earthen floor, especially common in Zen temples. When the tiles are set… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| kawarajiri 瓦尻 | ✓ | Lit. the tail of a tile. The tail or upper end of a broad concave roof tile *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| kawarakugi 瓦釘 | ✓ | Nails used to secure broad concave tiles *hiragawara 平瓦 and semi-… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| kawaramaki 瓦巻 | Lit. roof tiles that wrap around. Roof tiles used to cover the ridge of a farmhouse with a thatched roof, or a merchant's… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| kawaramune 瓦棟 | A tiled ridge on the roof of thatched vernacular houses *minka 民家. … |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| kawaramuneage 瓦棟上げ | A ceremony to celebrate the completion of a tiled roof in the area of Ōita City, Ōita Prefecture. The senior craftsman, … |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| kawaraya 瓦屋 | 1 A structure with a tile roof. See *kawarabuki 瓦葺. … |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| kawarayane 瓦屋根 | Roofing material made of fired clay tiles, first introduced with the advent of Buddhism from the Paekche Kingdom (Jp: *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| kawarayane-zukuri 瓦屋根造 | A vernacular house *minka 民家 with a tiled roof *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kawaraza 瓦座 | 1 A tile seat. A long timber rail on the sheathing which covers the rafters and eave support of a roof. The… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| kawari-e 異り絵 | Also yose-e 寄せ絵. A type of woodblock print that depicted human faces, necks, or hands with contorted miniature… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kawaya 厠 | A proto-modern, generic term for toilet. It is said that centuries ago such facilities were constructed above a swiftly… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kawazu 蛙 | A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a ghost of a man of commoner… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kaya 茅 | Originally kaya 上屋 (on top of the house). A proto-modern generic term for the grass and reeds used to thatch roofs… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kayabuki 茅葺 | ✓ | Also *kayabuki yane 茅葺屋根. Lit. thatching with miscanthus. However, the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kayabuki yane 茅葺屋根 | A thatched roof. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kayamon 茅門 | Also kayabukimon 茅葺門. Lit. a thatched roofgate.
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Architecture, Gates | |
| kayaoi 茅負 | ✓ | An eave support. A curved horizontal timber that connects the rafters. It is placed on flying rafters that are under the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kayoiguchi 通い口 | Also *kyūjiguchi 給仕口. The host's entrance to a ceremony room *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kayōza 荷葉座 | Also sometimes read kashouza. A lotus-leaf, kayou 荷葉 dais for a Buddhist image *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kayōzuka 荷葉束 | Lit. lotus leaf strut. Also read kashōzuka. Commonly called *nigirihasu… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kazari busshi 餝仏師 | Also shōgon busshi 荘厳仏師. Artists who made metal and jewelled ornaments for Buddhist statues. These ornaments… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kazari chōzubachi 飾手水鉢 | Lit. decorative wash basin. A wash basin placed in a garden for decoration and not used for washing hands. Usually, a wooden… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kazari-ishi 飾石 | Lit. decoration stones. A type of stone prized for its beauty and usually placed apart from the more symbolic stone… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kazari kanagu 飾金具 | Ornamental metal fittings. Metalwork pieces *kanagu 金具, attached to parts of a… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kazaribuki 飾葺 | A decorative type of thatch made from cogon, umikaya 海茅, a tall, coarse grass growing along the coastal… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kazaridana 飾棚 | It is found in mansions with large rooms *hiroma 広間, in the shoin… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kazarihachimae 飾鉢前 | An ornamental wash basin found on the side of a hallway *rōka 廊下, or around the… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kazariido 飾井戸 | An ornamental well. A garden well which has no water and therefore functions or only as a symbolic or decorative item. It is… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kazariuchi 飾打 | The ornamental elements of a garden. The features of a garden which have an ostensible function but are treated in a non-… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kazashi かざし | Also written 風子, 翳. Lit. shade. Walls, embankments, or plants used to prevent the enemy from seeing the activities inside a… |
Architecture, Castles |
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