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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
mabisashi 眉庇

A visor that projected from the front of a soidier's helmet *kabuto 冑. First…

Art History, Sculpture
maedachi 前立

Also omaedachi 御前立. Lit. "standing in front." A Buddhist sculpture, positioned on the altar in front of the shrine…

Art History, Sculpture
maedate 前立

Abbreviation of maedatemono 前立物. Also tatemono 立物. An upstanding decoration found on the front of a…

Art History, Sculpture
magaibutsu 磨崖仏

Also written 摩崖仏. Ch: moyafo. Also known as magai sekibutsu 磨崖石仏 or 摩崖石仏. A Buddhist image carved into the…

Art History, Sculpture
magojirō 孫次郎

A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a young woman. The gracefully curved mouth…

Art History, Sculpture
maijō 舞尉

Dancing old man. A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing an old god or…

Art History, Sculpture
manbi 万媚

A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a young woman in her first bloom. Very similar…

Art History, Sculpture
manmōsō 縵網相

Also shusokushi manmōsō 手足指縵網相. A web-like membrane between the fingers and toes found on sculpted Buddhist…

Art History, Sculpture
marubori 丸彫

A statue completely carved in the round, as opposed to relief *ukibori 浮彫. A…

Art History, Sculpture
marubuki 丸吹

Also *itchū 一鋳. A metal casting technique where the statue is cast in one…

Art History, Sculpture
masugami 十寸髪

Also written 増髪. Long, tangled hair. A Noh mask *nōmen 能面…

Art History, Sculpture
megata 雌型

A type of mould used in metal casting and ceramics. Megata refers to a hollow mould into which molten metal,…

Art History, Sculpture
mibu kōhai 壬生光背

A type of halo *kōhai 光背 found on Buddhist images. A square…

Art History, Sculpture
mida-no-jōin 弥陀定印

Also mida jōin. Lit. "Amida's meditation mudra." Mida is an abbreviation of *…

Art History, Sculpture
miei 御影

Also *eizō 影像 or *shin-ei…

Art History, Sculpture
mikazuki 三日月

Lit. "crescent: three moons." Noh masks *nōmen 能面 representing a…

Art History, Sculpture
mikenkō 眉間光

Lit. "forehead light." A curl of white hair on the forehead of a Buddha or Bodhisattva. It is said to emit a bright light…

Art History, Sculpture
mikkyō hōgu 密教法具

Utensils used during ritual incantation and prayer in Esoteric Buddhism mikkyō 密教. Introduced to Japan in the…

Art History, Sculpture
misogi kaji 御衣木加持

An incantation in esoteric Buddhism to purify and sanctify *misogi 御衣木, the wood used for…

Art History, Sculpture
misogi 御衣木 A piece of wood out of which a Buddhist statue is carved. Wood that has been struck by lightning is often used, as it is… Art History, Sculpture
mokakeza 裳懸座

Lit. "hanging skirt base." A pedestal *daiza 台座 which is covered by the skirt of…

Art History, Sculpture
mokoku 模刻

Also mosaku 模作, mosha 模写, mokosaku 模古作. Works of art such as statues which are copies of…

Art History, Sculpture
mokuchō 木彫

Wooden sculpture. While wooden sculptures are relatively rare in India and China, wood has traditionally been the chief…

Art History, Sculpture
mokushin kanshitsu 木心乾漆

Also mokushin kanshitsuzou 木心乾漆像, mokushin kanshitsu-zukuri 木心乾漆造. Lit. "wood-core dry lacquer." A method…

Art History, Sculpture
munagō 胸甲

Also pronounced kyōkō. A protective breast-plate found on Buddhist guardian deities *…

Art History, Sculpture
myōga akujō 茗荷悪尉

A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a fierce, old man. The shape of…

Art History, Sculpture
rahotsu 螺髪

Spiral shaped curls of hair, like snail-shells, on the head of a *nyorai…

Art History, Sculpture
raigō-in 来迎印

Lit. "welcoming mudra." A mudra or hand gesture *in 印 in which the forefinger,…

Art History, Sculpture
ramō 羅網

A net-like ornament strung with jewels or precious metals and hung from the canopy *…

Art History, Sculpture
renben 蓮弁

Lit. "lotus petal."
1 A pendant *gatō 瓦当, found on semi-…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Art History, Sculpture
rengeza 蓮華座 ✓

Also renza 蓮座. Lit. "Lotus base" (Sk: padmasana). A dais for a Buddhist image *…

Art History, Sculpture
renniku 蓮肉

The central section of a lotus flower pedestal *rengeza 蓮華座 on which a Buddhist image usually…

Art History, Sculpture
renpashiki emon 漣波式衣文

A manner of representing drapery folds in Buddhist sculpture. It consists of either 

1) a high…

Art History, Sculpture
Rikishi 力士 ✓

Ch: Lishi. A gigaku mask *gigakumen 伎楽面…

Art History, Sculpture
Rin Nasei 林和靖

Ch: Lin Hejing (967-1028). A noted poet, calligrapher and scholar of the Northern Song dynasty. Rin Nasei's real name was…

Art History, Sculpture
rinkō 輪光

A type of halo *kōhai 光背 used on Buddhist images, forming a free-…

Art History, Sculpture
rinnōza 輪王坐 ✓

The royal ease position (Sk: Maharajalilasana). A seated position used for a Buddhist image with one knee (usually…

Art History, Sculpture
rōgata 蝋型

Also rōgata chūzō 蝋型鋳造, rōgata imono 蝋型鋳物. A method of metal casting known as the lost-wax…

Art History, Sculpture
rōjo 老女

A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing the aged, yet beautiful face of…

Art History, Sculpture
Rokujō madenokōji bussho 六条万里小路仏所

A Buddhist sculpture workshop *bussho 仏所, active from the 11th-14th century and…

Art History, Sculpture
ryō-onna 霊女

A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing the suffering spirit of a woman…

Art History, Sculpture
Ryōō 陵王

Also Raryōō 羅陵王, Ranryōō 蘭陵王 (King Lanling), and Ryūō 龍王 (Dragon King, see *…

Art History, Sculpture
ryūzō 立像

Also read ritsuzō. A Buddhist image which is standing, as opposed to seated (see *…

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