| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| kikkōzumi 亀甲積 | ✓ | Lit. tortoise shell stack. Also called roppōzumi 六法積; or hachi-no-su 蜂の巣 meaning honeycomb or bee hive. An… |
Architecture, Castles |
| Kikokushi 鬼谷子 | Ch: Guiguzi. The Chinese eccentric and recluse Wang Xu (Jp: Ō Ku 王詡) who lived approximately 3rd-4th century BC. After a… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kiku 規矩 | Also read sumigane 墨矩; kikujutsu 規矩術; tsubokane 壷矩.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| kikugawara 菊瓦 | ✓ | Also called kikumaru 菊丸, kikumarugawara 菊丸瓦, or kogiku 小菊. A tile decorated with a… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| kikugi 木釘 | A wooden nail. The term applies to dowels, also called joggles *daboso 太ぼぞ, pins kumisen 込栓 or daisen… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| Kikujidō 菊慈童 | Ch: Jucitong. Lit. chrysanthemum love child. The childhood name of the Zhou dynasty Taoist immortal Peng Tan (Jp: Hō Tan 彭袒… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kikusuimon 菊水文 | ✓ | A design depicting chrysanthemums floating on a river. In China it is associated with longevity, probably in connection with… |
Art History, Painting |
| kikuto 菊斗 | ✓ | Sometimes pronounced kikudo; also called onito or onimasu 鬼斗, sumito 隅斗, … |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kikuza 菊座 | Also called *rokuyō 六葉. Lit. chrysanthemum seat. A decorative metal piece… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| Kikyorai 帰去来 | Ch: Guiqulai. Homecoming Ode by the Jin dynasty poet Tao Yuanming (Jp: *Tō Enmei… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kimedashi きめ出し | Also kimekomi きめ込み or nikuzuri 肉摺 (flesh printing). A special printing technique used to raise the paper… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kinezuka 杵束 | Also called tōkyōzuka 東京束. A strut that bulges out at top and bottom. The term is derived from a long-handled… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kingindei-e 金銀泥絵 | Also called dei-e 泥絵. Gold and silver powders mixed with glue and employed to decorate crafts, calligraphy,… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kinginzuri 金銀摺 | Two methods of printing gold or silver (and other metallic pigments) on a woodblock print *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kinhinzō 経行像 | A portrait, sculpted or painted, of a Zen 禅 (Ch: Chan) master (see *chinsō… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kinin-datami 貴人畳 | Also called tokomaedatami 床前畳. Lit. a nobleman's tatami. A straw mat *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kinin-ishi 貴人石 | Lit. noble's stone. A type of trump stone *yaku-ishi 役石, used… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kininguchi 貴人口 | ✓ | Also kinin agariguchi 貴人上り口. Lit. nobleman's entrance. An entrance made especially for noblemen or other… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| kinji 金地 | Lit. gold ground. Generally refers to the gold background of a painting, regardless of whether the gold is applied as leaf… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kinjin 金人 | Also written 金神. A golden figure of Buddha. This may be cast in gold, or made of copper or bronze with a golden colored… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kinkakujigaki 金閣寺垣 | ✓ | Lit. Kinkakuji 金閣寺 style fence. A type of low, bamboo see-through fence *… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| kinkan shutsugen-zu 金棺出現図 | Lit. painting of Sakyamuni emerging from the golden coffin. A genre of painting depicting one of the scenes from the life of… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| kinkarakawa 金唐皮 | Lit. gold Chinese leather. A kind of decorated leather with patterns created by painting, relief, or gold foil. Introduced… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| kinkishoga 琴棋書画 | The four accomplishments celebrated by the Chinese scholar-literati elite as elegant pastimes : playing the qin (Jp; kin… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Kinkō Sennin 琴高仙人 | Ch: Qin Gao Xianren. A painting subject of the Taoist immortal sennin 仙人 (Ch: xianren) Qin Gao, noted for riding a… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kinma 蒟醤 | It is also written 金間, 金磨, 金馬. A lacquer technique in which patterns are carved on black lacquer and filled in with red… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| kinpeki sansui 金碧山水 | Ch: jinbi shansui. Lit. gold and blue landscape. A blue and green landscape *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kinpeki shōhekiga 金碧障壁画 | A large painting on a wall, screen, or sliding door *shōhekiga 障壁画 where… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kinpekiga 金碧画 | Lit. gold and blue painting.
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Art History, Painting | |
| kinpirabon 金平本 | Also written 公平本. The typical early Edo period publication of the *eiri jōruribon… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kinran 金襴 | Gold brocade. Woven of patterns with gold or silver woof on a plain ground of hiraori 平織 (plain fabric), ayaori… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| kinrande 金襴手 | The Japanese name for the gold color added to Chinese wucai porcelain gosai 五彩, featuring a white-base with red,… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| kinranmaki 金襴巻 | ✓ | Lit. gold-brocade wrap. Decorative metal fittings *kazarikanagu 飾金具 and… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| kinsei 近世 | Lit. recent ages. The proto-modern age that includes the Momoyama and Edo periods (1568-1868). During the former period… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kinsei karakusamon 均正唐草文 | ✓ | A perfectly balanced design around a symmetrical central motif. A type of arabesque found on the pendants *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| kinsei shoki fūzokuga 近世初期風俗画 | Genre painting of the early modern period. Paintings depicting the daily activities and special pleasures of contemporary… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Kintarō 金太郎 | Lit. golden boy. A childhood name given in later centuries to Sakata no Kintoki 坂田公時, one of the four great generals of… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kinuhada 絹肌 | A generic name for an exceedingly smooth silky texture found on the shoulder, body, and lid of some kettles used for the tea… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| Kinzanji 金山寺 | Ch: Jinshansi. A well-known Zen 禅 (Ch: Chan) temple in Zhenjiang 鎮江, southeast Jiangsu 江蘇 province, China. The famous temple… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kinzokuzō 金属像 | Metal statue. A variety of metals were used for statues in Japan, including iron and silver, but bronze *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kioi 木負 | A flying rafter support. A long horizontal timber or plate placed close to the ends of the base rafters *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kioioroshi 木負卸 | ✓ | A method used to determine the proper width of a veranda. The technique positions the outer edge of the veranda in direct… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kirabiki 雲母引 | An undercoat of mica *kirara 雲母粉 mixed with sizing *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kirara 雲母粉 | Also kira, ummo, or unbo 雲母. Mica. Mica is a silicate mineral with a layered structure, whose… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kireisabi きれいさび | Lit. refined rusticity. Also written 綺麗寂. An aesthetic ideal of the early 17th century associated with the *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kiri-ishi 切石 | Lit. cut stones. Angular, free cut stones that can be a paved walkway *nobedan… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kiri-ishibashi 切石橋 | Lit. cut stone bridge. A type of stone bridge *ishibashi 石橋,… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kiri-ishijiki 切石敷 | ✓ | Cut paving stones. The stones may be slabs cut freely in any desired shapes. The stone paving laid at Katsura Rikyū 桂離宮 in… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| kiri 錐 | A gimlet. A tool used to bore holes in timber by rotating the blade tip. Gimlets are divided into three types depending on… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| kiriage tenjō 切上天井 | A raised ceiling. A ceiling raised by a low wall, straight struts, or vertical or horizontal strips of wood. A ceiling… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kiriago 切顎 | Detached chin of a mask. A feature of the bugaku mask *bugakumen… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kiridoguchi 切戸口 | Also called kirido 切戸, okubyōguchi 臆病口, wasureguchi 忘れ口. A small wicket entrance with a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kiridome 切止 | 1 The end of the handle of a tea scoop *chashaku 茶杓. Various… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kiridōshi 切通 | A road, or entrance, that is constructed by cutting through mountainous or hilly terrain, leaving sharply hewed vertical… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kirigegyo 切懸魚 | Lit. cut bargeboard pendant.
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Architecture, Decorations | |
| kirigishi 切岸 | A man-made, precipitous bank or steep bluff excavated while constructing a road through mountainous terrain *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kirihafu 切破風 | Also kirizuma hafu 切妻破風. A term used for bargeboards *hafu 破風, attached… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kirihaku 切箔 | Lit. cut-foil. A method of ornamentation using gold and/or silver leaf cut *haku… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kirihikite 切引手 | Also *chiriotoshifusuma 塵落襖. A type of door catch found on a thick,… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kirikane 切金 | Also written 截金. Lit. cut-gold.
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Art History, Painting | |
| kiriko-e 切子絵 | One type of brightly colored paper, chiyogami 千代紙 on which small designs of theater costumes, crests, flowers… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kiriko 切子 | 1 A square structural element from which a right angled section cut from each corner. Also called … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kirikomihagi 切込矧ぎ | ✓ | Lit. cut and inserted masonry. A type of stone wall *ishigaki 石垣 construction… |
Architecture, Castles |
| kirikumi 切組 | Also kirikizami 切刻み. The measuring and cutting of all structural members into predetermined forms. Before large… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kirime nageshi 切目長押 | A threshhold tie beam. A penetrating tie beam placed between the sliding door track *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kirimedō 切馬道 | In the 10th to 12th century, an earthen floored passageway that was a continuation of a floored connecting corridor, … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kirimen 切面 | ✓ | Also kiremen. The simple chamfer used on a square post with straight-cut, 45 degrees planed corners. The tool used… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kirin 麒麟 | Ch: qilin. A mythical Chinese animal that combines the elemental male animal ki 麒 (Ch: qi) and the female rin… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kiriotoshiguchi 切落口 | ✓ | An opening set into the second-story floor of a storehouse *dozō 土蔵 or shop… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kirisasu 切扠首 | 1 A short, diagonal timber which receives the helmet beam kabutogeta 兜桁 on a thatched roof … |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kirishitan dōrō キリシタン灯篭 | Lit. A Christian lantern. A lantern with carved designs of Christian figures were influenced by the early Christians in 16th… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| Kiritsubo 桐壺 | ✓ | A pictorial subject based on the opening Chapter, "The Paulownia Court" Kiritsubo of Genji monogatari… |
Art History, Painting |
| kiriyokebisashi 霧除廂 | Also called mabisashi 眉廂. A small eave, generally not exceeding 30 cm, that extends from the top of the lintel *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kirizuka 切束 | A short strut centered between a base sill and themiddle rail of a balustrade. | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kirizuma yane 切妻屋根 | ✓ | Also called *ryōsage 両下 or ryōka 両下. One of the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kirizuma-zukuri 切妻造 | ✓ | Also called *ryōsage 両下; iraka-zukuri 甍造. A style of building… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kirizumi 切墨 | A carpenter's term for the ink line drawn on a timber to indicate where it should be cut. The tool used to draw this line is… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Kishi-ha 岸派 | A painting school founded by Ganku 岸駒 (1749/56-1838), which was characterized by bold and vigorous depictions of animals,… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kishū-ishi 紀州石 | Lit. Kishū stones. A type of blue stone *ao-ishi 青石, quarried in… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kiso 基礎 | ✓ | The footing or foundation of a building. A generic term for any substructure that bears the weight of a superstructure.… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kissakōmongashi 喫茶敲門瓦子 | Lit. piece of tile knocking against the gate. A handbook on the Sen 千 family, tea ceremony, written by Fujii Iseki 藤井維石 and… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kisshōmon 吉祥文 | A broad range of decorative designs which are thought to bring good fortune. Many were brought to Japan from China but some… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Kitagomon 北御門 | A group of gates that face north found outside the sacred areas of Ise Jingū 伊勢神宮. With the exception of the outermost fence… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| Kitano tenjin engi 北野天神縁起 | Also sometimes abbreviated to tenjin engi 天神縁起 (History of Kitano Tenjin). A combination biography and… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| kitasōmon 北総門 | A general purpose gate on the north side of a compound. |
Architecture, Gates | |
| Kitayama bunka 北山文化 | Lit. north mountain culture. The culture of the early Muromachi period *… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| Kitoku 貴徳 | Art History, Sculpture | ||
| kitsune gōshi 狐格子 | ✓ | Also kizure gōshi 木連格子; tsumagōshi 妻格子. The latticework that fills the gable pediment, hafu-no… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kitsune 狐 | Fox. The fox is represented in the kyōgen 狂言 play Tsurigitsune 釣狐 (Fox Trapping) by a masked… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kitsunedo 狐戸 | A corrupted form for *tsumado 妻戸. Latticework *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kiwaganna 際鉋 | A plane used for shaving and finishing the sides of a mortise or an internal angle. There is a plane for left-side cutting… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| kiwame-in 極印 | 1 Lit. examined seal: i.e. seal of examination. A small round censorship seal containing the character '… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kiwamegaki 極書 | Lit. certificates of authenticity. A written appraisal or authentication of an artwork. There are four types of appraisals… |
Painting | |
| kiwaneda 際根太 | Lit. edge joist. A joist set along the bottom edges of posts or pillars to provide a place to attach the ends of floor… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| kiwari 木割 | Lit. wood-cutting. Also kikudaki 木砕. A system for measuring out the wooden components to be used in architecture or… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kiyodokoro 清所 | Lit. office of purification. Often synonymous with *kamidaidokoro上台所, *… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| kiyomizuyaki 清水焼 | Kiyomizuware. One of the terms commonly given to similar wares produced by several local kilns and associated with the old… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| kiyosehō 木寄法 | The rules governing the relative proportions of parts when a wooden statue is made by the joining of several pieces of wood… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kiza 跪坐 | ✓ | A kneeling position for a Buddhist image. Bodhisattva figures *Kannon 観音 and *… |
Art History, Sculpture |
| kiza 箕座 | ✓ | A seated position of Buddhist images in which both legs are stretched out to one side. The name of this position is derived… |
Art History, Sculpture |
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