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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
Yadorigi 宿木 ✓

A pictorial subject taken from "Yadorigi" ("The Ivy"), Chapter 49 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of Genji…

Art History, Painting, Document
yakusha hyōbanki 役者評判記

Printed books criticizing actors' skills. Theater reviews were not published in booklet form until 1656 with Yakusha-no-…

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