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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
Matsukaze 松風 ✓

1 A pictorial subject taken from "Matsukaze" ("The Wind in the Pines"), Chapter 18 of  Genji…

Art History, Painting, Document
Minori 御法 ✓

A pictorial subject based on "Minori" ("The Rites" or "The Venerable Law"), Chapter 40 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (…

Art History, Painting, Document
Miotsukushi 澪標

A pictorial subject based on "Miotsukushi" ("Channel Buoys"), Chapter 14 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of…

Art History, Painting, Document
Misogi 禊

Ablutions performed to remove sin or illness. As a pictorial theme it is most closely associated with Section 65 of Ise…

Art History, Painting, Document
Miyuki 行幸 ✓

A pictorial subject taken from "Miyuki" ("The Royal Outing"), Chapter 29 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of…

Art History, Painting, Document
Momiji no ga 紅葉賀 ✓

Lit. "celebration of autumn leaves." A pictorial subject based on Chapter 7 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale…

Art History, Painting, Document
Musōryū chitei 夢窓流治庭

Lit. "Corrective on Gardens of the Musō Lineage." A late Edo period treatise on landscape gardening. According to the…

Architecture, Gardens, Document
Nanbōroku 南方録

Book of Sen no Rikyū's 千利休 (1522-91) tea ceremony secrets which consists of seven volumes entitled: "Memoranda Oboegaki…

Architecture, Tea Houses, Document
nehon 根本

The Kyoto-Osaka region kamigata 上方 term for a *kabuki 歌舞伎 play book…

Art History, Painting, Document
Niou no Miya 匂宮 ✓

A pictorial subject taken from "Niou no miya" ("His Perfumed Highness" or "Prince Niou"), Chapter 42 of Genji monogatari…

Art History, Painting, Document
Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji 偐紫田舎源氏

Lit. "The False Murasaki and the Rustic Genji." An extremely popular mid-19th century novel written by Ryūtei Tanehiko 柳亭種彦…

Art History, Painting, Document
Nowaki 野分 ✓

A pictorial subject based on "Nowaki" ("The Typhoon"), Chapter 28 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of Genji…

Art History, Painting, Document
Nuetaiji 鵺退治

Lit. "subjugation of the Fabulous Night Monster." A pictorial subject taken from a famous episode in Heike monogatari…

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