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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
Kaishien gaden 芥子園画伝

Ch: Jieziyuan huazhuan. Lit. "Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting"; a Qing dynasty painting manual that had a…

Art History, Painting, Document
Kakuzenshō 覚禅鈔

Compilation of Kakuzen. An early Kamakura-period compilation of traditional Buddhist iconography. Also called …

Art History, Painting, Document
Kanga Shinan 漢画指南

Guide to Chinese Style Painting. A late 18th century treatise on *nanga…

Art History, Painting, Document
Koga bikō 古画備考

Lit. "Remarks on Old Paintings," a 51 chapter, mid-19th century, painters' biography compiled by Asaoka Okisada 朝岡興禎 (1800-…

Art History, Painting, Document
Kokugaron 国画論

Treatise on Native Painting. A short 18th century essay on painting by Confucian scholar and education reformer…

Art History, Painting, Document
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
Kundaikan sōchōki 君台観左右帳記

A single-volume book detailing Chinese objects, particularly tea ceremony utensils, given to the shogunal family by Ashikaga…

Architecture, General Terms, Document
Wakamurasaki 若紫 ✓

Lit. "young lavender." A pictorial subject based on "Wakamurasaki" ("Lavender"), Chapter 5 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語…

Art History, Painting, Document
Wakana 若菜 ✓

A pictorial subject taken from "Wakana" ("New Herbs"), which is divided into two parts, making up Chapters 34 and 35 of …

Art History, Painting, Document

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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