| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| kōraimon 高麗門 | ✓ | A type of gate, lit. Korean gate. Also formerly called *kabukimon… |
Architecture, Gates |
| Kōrakuji-ha 康楽寺派 | The Kōrakuji school. A hereditary school of Buddhist painters *ebusshi 絵仏師… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kōran 高欄 | ✓ | Also written 鈎欄 or 勾欄, the latter said by some scholars to be the correct characters. But, 高欄 is the more common, popular… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kōrin moyō 光琳模様 | Also kōrin mon'yō 光琳文様. Decorative designs which resemble the work of the artist Ogata Kōrin 尾形光琳 (1658-1716… |
Art History, Painting | |
| korō 鼓楼 | ✓ | A small, two-storied structure *rō-zukuri 楼造, in which a drum is suspended in… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| kōro 香炉 | Incense burner. Common materials are metal, pottery, horn, and lapis lazuli as well as various gems and woods. There are a… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| Korobase 崑崙八仙 | Ch: Kunlun baxian. Lit. Eight Hermits of Mt. Konron. Also read Konron Hassen. Alternative name: Tsurumai… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| korobashineda 転ばし根太 | Also called umeneda 埋め根太. Sleepers placed directly on the ground or cement floor without using joints or struts.… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| korobi 転 | Lit. incline or inclination. Also called *uchikorobi 内転. The incline of… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kōroku 鉤勒 | Ch: goule. Also written 鈎勒 or 勾勒 and called sōroku 雙鉤. One of the two primary techniques of Chinese… |
Art History, Painting | |
| koroku 胡ろく | Also read yanagui and written 胡禄. A kind of quiver which hangs from the right side of the waist with the arrowheads… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| kōryō 虹梁 | ✓ | Lit. rainbow beam. A generic term for any curved, transverse tie beam. It is used almost exclusively in temple or shrine… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kōryō kaerumata 虹梁蟇股 | ✓ | A structural framework for a roof that has a gable pediment arranged in a similar structure as the bottle shaped strut … |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kōryō sasugumi 虹梁扠首組 | ✓ | A roof frame constructed with rainbow beams *kōryō 虹梁 that extend… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kōryō taiheizuka 虹梁大瓶束 | ✓ | A structural framework in the gable ends of a roof characterized by the use of bottle struts *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kōryōgata-no-kashiranuki 虹梁形の頭貫 | Also *mizuhiki kōryō 水引虹梁. A head penetrating tie beam *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Kose-ha 巨勢派 | The Kose school which was founded by Kose no Kanaoka 巨勢金岡, who held an important hereditary position in the 9th-century… |
Art History, Painting | |
| koshi byōbu 腰屏風 | Type of screen similar to *makura byōbu 枕屏風 in format. They were slightly… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kōshi 格子 | Latticework or grille. Normally latticework is made of wood and grille made of metal. Both are laid out in a grid. The most… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kōshi irimado 格子入窓 | ✓ | A latticed window with immovable lattice inserted into the window frame. The window is called degōshimado 出格子窓 if… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| Kōshi 孔子 | Ch: Kongzi. Confucius (551-479 BC). The seminal Chinese philosopher of the late Spring and Autumn period. His family name… |
Art History, Painting | |
| koshi 腰 | Lit. hip or haunch.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| koshibari-ita 腰貼板 | Paneling or plain boards used to finish the lower part of a wall. If only the term *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| koshibari 腰貼 | ✓ | Also written 腰張, 腰紙貼. The pasting of paper on the lower part of the clay wall in a tea ceremony room, one piece of which is… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| kōshidai 格子台 | The oldest method used to insert lattice directly into the members of the window opening. The vertical muntins are inserted… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| koshidakashōji 腰高障子 | ✓ | Also called koshidaka akarishōji 腰高明障子, or only koshidaka. A translucent paper-covered sliding screen *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| koshigumi 腰組 | ✓ | A bracket complex, used under the balcony of high gates, beneath the multiple roofs of pagodas and the main roof of two-… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| koshiguruwa 腰郭 | Lit. waist compound. In a mountain castle *yamajiro 山城, a… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| koshiire mechigaitsuki aritsugi 腰入目違付蟻継 | ✓ | A half-lapped, half-blind, tenoned dovetail joint. The indented piece is cut with a bench (hip, koshi 腰), open in… |
Architecture, Joints |
| koshikake aritsugi 腰掛蟻継 | ✓ | A half-lap, dovetailed joint. Also shikimen aritsugi 敷面蟻継, shikimen arihozotsugi 敷面蟻ほぞ継, koshikake… |
Architecture, Joints |
| koshikake kamatsugi 腰掛鎌継 | ✓ | Also shikimen kamatsugi 敷面鎌継. A half-lap, gooseneck tenon joint. An end joint which combines two joints: a half-lap… |
Architecture, Joints |
| koshikake machiai 腰掛待合 | ✓ | A place provided in a tea garden where the mood and expectations of the participants are intensified while they wait until… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| koshikake 腰掛 | Lit. Lap or bench. A basic part of many joints. Although similar to the *aigaki… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| koshikaketsugi 腰掛継 | Also *koshi 腰; kasanetsugi 重継. Lit. seat joint. A simple… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| kōshimado 格子窓 | A latticed window. One type resembles *renjimado 連子窓. The laths are narrower… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| koshimaki doi 腰巻土居 | Also termed koshimaki-ishigaki 腰巻石垣, a waist-bandstone wall. A stone wall built around the lower part of an earthen… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| koshimaki 腰巻 | Lit: hip wrap. Part of the formal summer attire of elite warrior women, and placed over the *… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| koshinageshi 腰長押 | A horizontal non-penetrating tie beam *nageshi 長押 positioned below the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| koshinuki 腰貫 | Lit. hip tie beam. Penetrating tie beams placed horizontally slightly below the center of pillars on exterior walls of… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| koshō 胡床 | Also shōgi 床几. A folding chair or a stool. These folding chairs were derived from the chairs used by the Huns (Jp:… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| kōshoku-zu 耕職図 | Ch: gengzhitu. Lit. pictures of agriculture and sericulture. In China the theme was originally reserved for court… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kōshū kurama-ishi 甲州鞍馬石 | Also called shinkurama-ishi 新鞍馬石 and kōshūmikage-ishi 甲州御影石. A type of low quality granite quarried in… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kosode 小袖 | Lit. small sleeves. A modern generic name for all full-length garments made before the Meiji period. Originally a lower-… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| kōsōden-e 高僧伝絵 | Sometimes called *eden 絵伝. Pictorial biographies of revered Buddhist priests and… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Kōsoshū 後素集 | Collection on Painting, a seminal Japanese book on Chinese paintings written in 1623 by Kano Ikkei 狩野一渓 (1599-1662), the… |
Art History, Painting, Document | |
| kōsōzō 高僧像 | Statue of a high priest. These portrait statues were often made by pupils as a sign of respect and reverence for their… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kote 篭手 | Also written 小手. Formerly tamaki 手纏, taōi 臂覆. A gauntlet that protected the arms and hands. It was… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kotenomi 鏝鑿 | A trowel chisel. A type of paring chisel *tsukinomi 突鑿, with… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| kotenshu 小天守 | A small subsidiary tower. When a castle complex has two or more donjons, the largest is called *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kotobagaki 詞書 | The textual portion of an illustrated handscroll *emaki 絵巻. … |
Art History, Painting | |
| kotobide 小飛出 | A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing the spirit of a fox or other… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kotojigata tōrō 琴柱形灯籠 | A lantern found on the north bank of Kasumigaike 霞が池 in Kenrokuen 兼六園, Ishikawa Prefecture. It is very large, approximately… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| Kotokuraku 胡徳楽 | Dance of the Virtuous Barbarians, a piece in *bugaku 舞楽 and a… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kotsugaki 骨描き | A painting technique used to draw an object or motif in light ink strokes. Used since the Edo period during the final steps… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kowatari 古渡 | Also read koto. Also jidaiwatari 時代渡. Lit. Old importation. Foreign objects, including art works, books,… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| koya aratameguchi 小屋改口 | Also called tenjō aratameguchi 天井改口. Lit. roof structure inspecting entrance. A trapdoor built into a ceiling to… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| koyabari 小屋梁 | Also called rokubari 陸梁. The bottom most transverse tie beam *hari 梁 in… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| koyagumi 小屋組 | ✓ | Roof truss or framework; the frame with diagonal members on either side of a strut *tsuka… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| koyane 小屋根 | Lit. a small roof. A small roof built over a shed or subordinate structure attached to a main building. Examples include a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Koyomibari-no-seki 暦張の席 | Also called Koyomitei 暦亭. The old calendar papers that were pasted to the base of the mud plaster wall of a small… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kōzama 格狭間 | Also written 香狭間, and abbreviated to *sama 狭間. Formerly called *… |
Art History, Sculpture, General Terms, Architecture | |
| kozashiki 小座敷 | Also *koma 小間. Lit. a small room. An old name for a small sized tea ceremony room… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kozukuri 小造り | Fine-cutting, the third stage in the making of a wooden sculpture. Following timber-cutting *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kubihozo 首ほぞ | Lit. neck tenon. A tenon *hozo ほぞ or projection made at the bottom… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kubon raigō 九品来迎 | Also called kubon ōjōraigō 九品往生来迎. The nine possible levels of birth into *… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| kuchi-e 口絵 | Lit. pictures at the entrance. The frontispiece. An illustration or photograph on the first page of book or magazine. |
Art History, Painting | |
| kuchiba 朽葉 | 1 Lit. dead leaves; a dull yellow color. Kuchiba dye is made by mixing yellow gardenia *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kuchikigata 朽木形 | ✓ | Lit. rotted wood pattern. A decorative design pattern which resembles the grain of rotting wood. It is also considered by… |
Art History, Painting |
| kuchinashi 支子 | 1 Also written 梔子. Reddish-yellow color and dye. Made from chopped, boiled seeds of the kuchinashi… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kudabashira 管柱 | Also called daikagurabashira 太神楽柱. Pillars used to build two story structures whereby one pillar is erected on the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Kudara 百済 | Korean: Paekche. One of the states in the Three Kingdoms period (Jp: Sangoku jidai 三国時代) of early Korean history, and… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| kudarigegyo 降懸魚 | Also *ketakakushi 桁隠, ketakakushigegyo 桁隠懸魚, *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kudarimune 降棟 | ✓ | Also called *hira kudarimune 平降棟. A descending ridge *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kudo-zukuri 竈造 | A roof style found on vernacular houses *minka 民家 in Saga… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| Kue mandara 九会曼荼羅 | The standard form of the *Kongōkai mandara 金剛界曼荼羅 widely used in Japan… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| kugi 釘 | A nail made of metal, wood, or bamboo and shaped according to use. Traditionally, metal kugi are square, … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kugi-e 釘絵 | Lit. nail picture. A type of comic picture *giga 戯画 which Utagawa Kuniyoshi… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kugibori 釘彫 | A hole cutout piece bored on the back of a large, thick, non-penetrating tie beam *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kugikakushi 釘隠 | ✓ | An ornament used to conceal the head of a large nail on a pressing tie rail *nageshi… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| kuginukimon 釘貫門 | ✓ | Also kuginuki 釘貫. A roofless gate found at imperial tombs, mansions, and government check points. When the gate has… |
Architecture, Gates |
| kugurido 潜り戸 | 1 A generic term for a small door, very often a wicket door set into the leaf of another larger door or… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses | |
| kuguriguchi 潜り口 | A generic term for a small low entrance through which one has to stoop or crawl. Often fitted in a large gate, so people may… |
Architecture, General Terms, Tea Houses | |
| kugurimon 潜り門 | 1 A small low gate cut through an earth wall, tsuchibei 土塀, or timber fence *… |
Architecture, Gates, Folk Dwellings | |
| kui 杭 | Also kigui 木杭. Pile. A wooden stake or post driven into the ground. Closely placed round wooden posts, often shaved… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kuichigai 喰違 | Staggered embankments. A castle-wall design where the left and right embankments *doi… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| Kujaku Myōō 孔雀明王 | Lit. peacock king of those who hold knowledge. A female deity of Indian origin (Sk: Mahamayuri). The subject of the … |
Art History, Iconography | |
| kujū-no-tō 九重塔 | Also pronounced kyūjū-no-tō. A 9-storied pagoda. Kudaradaiji 百済大寺 (6th-7th century) in Nara, and Hōshōji 法勝寺 (Heian… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Kūkai 空海 | Early Heian period Buddhist priest (774-835), patriarch of the Shingon 真言 sect of Esoteric Buddhism mikkyō 密教… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| kumadori 隈取 | Also written 暈取. Also called *ungen 繧繝. A general term for shading… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Kumano mandara 熊野曼荼羅 | Devotional paintings of the three shrines of Kumano, Kumano Sanzan 熊野三山, which are called Hongū 本宮 (Kumano Nimasu Jinja… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| kumasaka 熊坂 | A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing Kumasaka no Chōhan 熊坂長範… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Kume Sennin 久米仙人 | Also written 粂仙人. A legendary immortal often depicted in Edo period painting. According to legend recorded in Konjaku… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kumigaki 組垣 | Lit. braided fence. A generic name for fences in which the lattice pieces of the fence are braided. In some cases the bamboo… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kumiire tenjō 組入天井 | Also kumiire 組入 or kumitenjō 組天井.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| kumiizutsu 組井筒 | Lit. arranged well crib. A type of well made of four joined stone blocks. It is also called kakikomi ido 掻込井戸 (… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kumikikkō 組亀甲 | A decorative pattern of interlocking hexagonal shapes with small triangles in the interstices. A variation of the tortoise… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kumiko 組子 | 1 A muntin, mullion, or munnion. The non-structural timber parts set within the stiles *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kumimono-osae 組物押 | A beam set parallel to the eave purlin which functions like a fulcrum to support and absorb the weight of a beam called *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kumimono 組物 | A set of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 prints with a common theme. The distinction… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kumimune 組棟 | ✓ | A built-up ridge compound or rows of patterned tiles *munakomigawara… |
Architecture, General Terms |
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