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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
zahō 坐法

Also referred to as zasei 坐勢 (Sk: asana). A seated position for a Buddhist image. Ancient Indian ascetics used…

Art History, Sculpture
zazō 坐像

A Buddhist image which is seated, as opposed to standing *ryūzō 立像. The…

Art History, Sculpture
Zen-pa 善派

A school of Buddhist sculptors *bussho 仏所, who often used the character 'Zen' 善…

Art History, Sculpture
zengo hagi-awase 前後矧合

Also abbreviated to zengohagi 前後矧. A method of making a wooden statue where the statue is carved in two separate…

Art History, Sculpture
zenjō-in 禅定印

Lit. "meditation mudra." A mudra or hand gesture *in 印, formed by placing the palms…

Art History, Sculpture
Zenkōji shiki Amida sanzon 善光寺式阿弥陀三尊

Images of the *Amida 阿弥陀 trinity made in the style of the Amida trinity at Zenkōji 善光寺 in…

Art History, Sculpture
zō-onna 増女

A Noh mask *nōmen 能面, representing a young angel, goddess or enlightened woman.…

Art History, Sculpture
Zō Tōdaiji Zōbussho 造東大寺造仏所

Also Tōdaiji Zōbussho 東大寺造仏所. A workshop which made statues for Tōdaiji 東大寺 in Nara. In 748, the government set up a…

Art History, Sculpture
zōbussho 造仏所

Government-run workshops making Buddhist statues during the Nara period. Post-9th-century independent and temple-run…

Art History, Sculpture
zokutaizō 俗体像

A portrait of a lay person in formal secular dress. This contrasts with the more numerous portraits of Buddhist priests…

Art History, Sculpture
zōmen 蔵面

Offertory mask. Cloth or paper masks used in *bugaku 舞楽 in the pieces *…

Art History, Sculpture
zōnai nōnyūhin 像内納入品

Also nōnyūhin 納入品, tainai nōnyūhin 胎内納入品, tainai nōnyūbutsu 胎内納入物. Objects found in the…

Art History, Sculpture
zōshu 像主

A patron. A person who requests the building of a Buddhist temple or work of art.

Art History, Sculpture
zōzōki 造像記

Also zōzōki daiki 造像題記, zōzōmei 造象銘. A record that keeps track of the completion and repair dates of a…

Art History, Sculpture
zuizō 瑞像

A name given to a sandalwood statue of Shaka Nyorai 釈迦如来 (in the same style as the figure in Seiryōji 清涼寺, Kyoto). See *…

Art History, Sculpture
zukō 頭光

Lit. head light. A nimbus or halo that encircles the head of an image of a Buddhist deity. In the case of sculpture it is…

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