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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
nanako 魚々子 ✓

Also written 魚子, 斜子. Lit. "fish-roe."
1 A pattern of small dots thought to resemble fish-roe, and…

Art History, Architecture, Gardens, Crafts
netsuke 根付

A miniature sculpture that is ties to a portable tiered container *inrō 印籠 worn…

Art History, Crafts
nishiki 錦

Brocade. A general term for a variety of flat multicolored, woven-pattern fabrics. Recently it suggests silk woven with an…

Art History, Crafts
noborigama 登窯

Bank or climbing kiln. Built on a slope, this efficient type of kiln originated in China and was introduced to Japan from…

Art History, Crafts
nōshōzoku 能装束

*Noh 能 costumes. Also called nō-ishō 能衣装. Cloth articles worn in Noh…

Art History, Crafts
raden 螺鈿

1 A shell, especially mother-of-pearl, inlay technique commonly used for lacquer ware *…

Art History, Crafts
rakuyaki 楽焼 ✓

Raku 楽 ware. A light weight ceramic ware developed in Kyoto in the Momoyama period and particularly prized in the…

Art History, Crafts
rantai shikki 籃胎漆器

The technique whereby bamboo strips are woven into shapes and coated with lacquer. Also called kagoji 籠地 (basket…

Art History, Crafts
ruri 瑠璃

Lapis lazuli. Vaidurya in Sanskrit. Originally it meant lapis lazuli or emerald, but from the Six Dynasties period Chinese…

Art History, Crafts

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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