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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
jidō 慈童

A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a sprite who possesses the elixir of long life…

Art History, Sculpture
jihatsu 地髪 Hair on the head of a Buddha *nyorai 如来 statue, not including the *… Art History, Sculpture
jihisō 慈悲相

Also bosatsusō 菩薩相. The expression of compassion found on Buddhist images. The opposite is *…

Art History, Sculpture
jimotsu 持物

Also read jibutsu. Sk: lakasana. The hand-held attributes of a Buddhist image. Along with the mudra *…

Art History, Sculpture
jinchū 人中

Also ninchū. A vertical groove between the nose and upper lip of Buddhist images. The jinchū differed…

Art History, Sculpture
jintai 神体

Lit. God body or God style; also written 神容. A noh mask*nōmen 能面 representing a…

Art History, Sculpture
jirenge 持蓮華

An object shaped like a lotus bud and stem used in Buddhist rituals, particularly favored by the Ji 時 sect. Usually made of…

Art History, Sculpture
jissaku 十作

The Ten Greatest Ancient Sculptors of Noh masks *nōmen 能面…

Art History, Sculpture
jitō 耳とう

Also nitō. Round earrings found on sculpted Buddhist images. These were used on Chinese figures, but were extremely…

Art History, Sculpture
Jōchōyō 定朝様

A style of sculpture created by the Buddhist sculptor *busshi 仏師 Jōchō 定朝 (?-…

Art History, Sculpture
jōhachi 丈八

A standard height for a Buddhist statue. A variation of the *jōroku 丈六.…

Art History, Sculpture
jōhaku 条帛

A decorative scarf worn by Buddhist deities and guardian figures. It is draped diagonally across the upper body, usually…

Art History, Sculpture
jōmen 尉面

A mask representing an old man, jō 尉, in particular the old men masks of the *…

Art History, Sculpture
jōroku 丈六

A standard height for a Buddhist statue. Abbreviation of one *jō 丈 and six …

Art History, Sculpture
jōshō 縄床

Also written 縄牀. Also jōton 縄榻. A rough chair, originally from India, with the back or seat wrapped in rope or cord…

Art History, Sculpture
jūroku 十六

Sixteen. A noh mask *nōmen 能面, representing the young Heike 平家…

Art History, Sculpture
jutai 綬帯

A general term for any ornamental band of cloth found on a bodhisattvas *bosatsu…

Art History, Sculpture
juzō 寿像

A portrait, sculpted or painted, made during the lifetime of the subject. The most common was a *…

Art History, Sculpture
uchiguri 内刳

A technique used to hollow out the interior of a wooden statue. The hollow produced is also called uchiguri.…

Art History, Sculpture
uetsuke 植付け

Lit. "planting." A technique used to make wooden statues, where the hair and beard are made separately, and then attached to…

Art History, Sculpture
ukebana 受花 ✓

Also written 請花, 受華, 請華; sometimes pronounced ukehana. Flower-shaped support. A support in the shape of an open,…

Architecture, Sculpture, Decorations, Art History
ukibori 浮彫

Formerly known as hanshutsuzō 半出像. A relief, or a method used to carve a relief on a flat surface. Halfway…

Art History, Sculpture
ushitsunisha 烏瑟に沙

See *nikkei 肉髻. A hemispherical protuberance emerging from the head of a…

Art History, Sculpture
usobuki 空吹

Also usofuki, sometimes written 嘯吹. Lit. "bluffer or whistler"; a humorous mask used in kyōgen 狂言 plays.…

Art History, Sculpture
usunikubori 薄肉彫

Also asanikubori 浅肉彫, asaukibori 浅浮彫, teiukibori 低浮彫, usuukibori 薄浮彫. A type of…

Art History, Sculpture

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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