| 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 | 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." |
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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