| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| naga-ita 長板 | Lit. "a long board."
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Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| naga-itabuki 長板葺 | 1 An early term for long boards used on roofs. Records dating from the 8th century first used the terms… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nagakikkō 長亀甲 | An elongated hexagon or a decorative pattern consisting of a series of elongated hexagon shapes. |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| nagamarugawara 長丸瓦 | Longer than standard semi-cylindrical roof tiles used as coping tiles *kasagawara… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| nagare 流 | Lit. "flowing." |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nagare-zukuri 流造 | ✓ | Also nagare hafu-zukuri 流破風造. A widely used style of main sanctuary *… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| nagarehozo 流ほぞ | ✓ | A sloped tenon, which is cut into the end of a beam. The top of the tenon is flush with the top surface of the beam. The… |
Architecture, Joints |
| Nagasaki-ha 長崎派 | A term used to group a number of artists and artistic styles associated with the city of Nagasaki 長崎 from the 17th through… |
Art History, Painting | |
| nagasaki hanga 長崎版画 | Also called nagasaki-e 長崎絵 or Nagasaki prints. Woodblock prints made in the port city of Nagasaki during the Edo… |
Art History, Painting | |
| nagashi 流し | 1 A sink used for washing food before its preparation, for washing utensils after a meal, or for washing… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| nagate 長手 | The long side of a timber, or a timber placed in a lengthwise direction. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nagatoko 長床 | A room at Kumano Jinja 熊野神社, in Fukushima Prefecture, which is similar to a worshipper's hall *… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| nagaya 長屋 | Longhouse, or row house. A house with a long ridge. Also indicates a house with a number of residences connected under a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nagayamono 長屋物 | The smallest of three standard sizes of roof tiles yanegawara 屋根瓦, used during the 17th-19th century. The… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| Nageiredō 投入堂 | ✓ | Also once known as Zaōdō 蔵王堂. The Nageiredō is a small building, constructed in the overhang style kake-zukuri 懸造,… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| nagekakebari 投掛梁 | ✓ | A transverse beam *hari 梁 made in two sections and coupled by a stub-tenon-… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| nageshi 長押 | ✓ | Non-penetrating tie beams that are made to fit around pillars *hashira 柱 of… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| nageshibiki 長押挽 | A long rectangular beam cut along a diagonal cross-section and used as a non-penetrating tie *nageshi… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nagimayu 薙眉 | Also called naginata mayu 薙刀眉 or 長刀眉. A type of carved molding *kurigata… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| naginatazori 長刀反 | A sudden strong, upward curve at the corner ends of eaves. Especially characteristic of the Zen style *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| naidō 内堂 | Buddhist priests' living quarters. Higher-ranking priests had two rooms one behind the other. The inner room was called the… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| naiheki 内壁 | 1 An interior wall partition. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| naijimon 内侍門 | Also read naishimon. Traditionally, the timbergate through which virgin attendants entered a shrine. Structurally,… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| naijin 内陣 | ✓ | The inner sanctum located in the main halls *kondō 金堂 or *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| naijinbashira 内陣柱 | ✓ | Also called moyabashira 母屋柱; irikawabashira入側柱. The pillars placed on the boundary between, or slightly… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| naijō 内城 | The innermost compound *kuruwa 郭 of a castle. Sometimes called *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| naiku 内区 | ✓ | The inner section of the pendant *gatō 瓦当, attached to a semi-… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| Naikūgen torii 内宮源鳥居 | Small entrance-gates at Yoshida Jinja 吉田神社 in Kyoto. They are located in front of two small shrines behind the octagonal… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| nainaijin 内内陣 | 1 A miniature shrine within the sanctuary of a Shinto shrine. |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| naka-ita 中板 | A board which is inserted between the host's mat *temaedatami 点前畳 and the… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| naka-no-kuchi 中の口 | 1 A semi-formal entrance to Honmaru Goten 本丸御殿, the main palace in Edo-jō 江戸城. It was situated at the east… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Naka-no-Mibumon 中の壬生門 | According to the Shokunihongi 続日本紀, a gate leading to the waiting area for all officials, chōshūden… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| naka-no-to 中の戸 | 1 A generic term for a door connecting two areas of a structure.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| nakabachi-no-tsukubai 中鉢の蹲踞 | A garden wash-basin set characterized by the use of gravel surrounding it. The gravel allows the water from hand washing to… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| nakabashira 中柱 | 1 Also *daimebashira 台目柱. A small pillar which stands at… |
Architecture, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings | |
| nakado 中戸 | ✓ | A pair of sliding doors *hikichigai 引違, separating the front… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| nakadoi 中樋 | ✓ | A rain gutter placed at the bottom point where two roofs meet. Similar to *narabidō 双堂… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| nakadoma machiya 中土間町家 | An urban vernacular residence *machiya 町家, characterised by a… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| nakadoma 中土間 | An inner earth-floored area found in *nakadoma machiya… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| nakagamachi 中框 | Also called nakazan 中桟. A middle rail. A horizontal rail or rails inserted into stiles tategamachi 竪框 and… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nakago 中型 | Also written 中子. Sometimes known as *ogata 雄型. Inner mould. When a metal statue… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| nakahōdate 中方立 | A vertical, finishing strip of wood placed between the threshold *shikii 敷居 and… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nakai 中居 | 1 A private service-oriented room in the mansions of aristocrats, warriors, retired emperors, abbots and… |
Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings | |
| nakaita-no-seki 中板席 | A tea ceremony room or house that contains a board *naka-ita 中板, set between the host's mat… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| nakajō 中城 | Also *ni-no-maru 二の丸, ni-no-kuruwa 二の郭, naka-no-maru 中の丸.… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| nakako 中子 | ✓ | Also called sakuko 柵子, kakusaku 角柵, marutazaku 丸太柵. The stakes used to support the fencing set in… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| nakakugi 中釘 | Also *hanakugi 花釘, tokonakakugi 床中釘 (see *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| nakakuguri 中潜 | Lit. "middle wicket." Also pronounced uchisomi. It is sometimes called kuguri 潜. A type of middle… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| nakaniwa 中庭 | 1 A place for hanging clothes in vernacular dwellings of the Kantō 関東 region.
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Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| nakanuri 中塗り | ✓ | Also called chūgomi 中込, nakazuke or chūzuke 中付. A middle layer of plaster applied between the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| nakaore 中折 | An architectural element that is bent or has a concave mid-point. A diagonal brace, for example, if less than 90 cm wide,… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nakashikii 中敷居 | Also read chūjikii. Lit. "middle sill." A sill on a shelf that divides a closet into two parts, lower and upper.… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nakasukido 中透戸 | Also called nakashōji 中障子, yoshiwara shōji 吉原障子, takeshōji 竹障子, nakanukido 中抜戸 and … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nakatatezan 中竪桟 | Also written 中縦桟. A vertical stile placed at the mid-point of a paneled door. A centrally placed horizontal stile is called… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nakatsubo 中坪 | Also written 中壷. The inner court between shop and living quarters in a merchant's house in the Edo period. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nakayama torii 中山鳥居 | Also called banshi torii 伴氏鳥居. A stone entrance-gate to a Shinto shrine *torii… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| nakazonae 中備 | ✓ | Also written 中具. Secondary or intermediate supports placed in the interstices between the bracket complexes *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| nakazuka 中束 | ✓ | A generic term for struts *tsuka 束 that are set at the mid-point between two… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| namakogata 海鼠形 | A decorative shape said to resemble a sea slug, namako 海鼠. The shape is often used for the material handles of… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| namakokabe 海鼠壁 | ✓ | Also written 生子壁. A traditional finish for *dozō-zukuri 土蔵造 and *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| namanari 生成 | Lit. "Becoming bestial." A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 used for the wife taking revenge… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| namazu-e 鯰絵 | Pictures of a catfish, namazu 鯰. Japanese legend has it that the movement of large catfish deep inside the earth… |
Art History, Painting | |
| namigata renji 波型連子 | Also namirenji 波連子, yumirenji 弓連子, tatewaki renji 立涌連子. A type of latticework renji… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| namionigawara 波鬼瓦 | ✓ | An ogre tile with a wave pattern descending from its base to form legs ashimoto 足元, that divide over the gable of… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| nanako 魚々子 | ✓ | Also written 魚子, 斜子. Lit. "fish-roe." |
Art History, Architecture, Gardens, Crafts |
| nanakogaki 魚子垣 | Also urokogaki 鱗垣, gonomegaki 互の目垣. A fence made from semi-circular pieces of bamboo or metal. Bamboo… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| nanakomachi 七小町 | ✓ | Lit. "the seven Komachi." Seven episodes concerning the mid-9th century poetess Ono no Komachi 小野小町, one of the Six Poetic… |
Art History, Painting |
| nanatsu-ishi 七つ石 | Seven trump stones in the *roji 露地 or tea garden. They are the hand-washing stone… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| nanban byōbu 南蛮屏風 | Folding screens *byōbu 屏風, usually in a pair, depicting Portuguese and… |
Art History, Painting | |
| nanban-e 南蛮絵 | Western painting brought by the Portuguese and Spanish who arrived in Japan in the 16th century, nanban bijutsu… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| nanban 南蛮 | Lit. "Southern barbarian art." Considered to be the first manifestation of direct Western influence on Japanese culture,… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| Nanbokuchō jidai 南北朝時代 | The Southern and Northern Court period (1336-92). It takes its name from two separate antagonistic Imperial courts supported… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| Nanbōroku 南方録 | Book of Sen no Rikyū's 千利休 (1522-91) tea ceremony secrets which consists of seven volumes entitled: "Memoranda Oboegaki… |
Architecture, Tea Houses, Document | |
| nandaimon 南大門 | ✓ | The great south gate at Tōdaiji 東大寺 in Nara. The term is also used for the main south gate at other temples. |
Architecture, Gates |
| nando 納戸 | 1 A store room in which clothes and valuables could be kept in the houses of the civil, ecclesiastical and… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| nanga 南画 | Lit. "Southern painting." An abbreviation of *nanshūga 南宗画, which… |
Art History, Painting | |
| nanken-nanko 何間 何戸 | Lit. "How many bays? How many entrances?" Questions posed in order to ascertain the number of bays *… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| Nanpin-ha 南蘋派 | A group of artists who produced bird-and-flower painting introduced to Japan by the Chinese artist Shen Nanpin (Jp: Shin… |
Art History, Painting | |
| nanshūga 南宗画 | Ch: nanzonghua. The Southern school of Chinese painting. Composed of literati (scholars) as opposed to the Northern… |
Art History, Painting | |
| nanto busshi 南都仏師 | A general term for Buddhist sculptors *busshi 仏師 working in Nara… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| nanto-edokoro 南都絵所 | Lit. "painting atelier of the southern capital" (nanto 南都, an alternative name for Nara 奈良). Refers to the three… |
Art History, Painting | |
| nanto shichidaiji 南都七大寺 | Lit. "southern capital seven great temples." A generic expression in use by the 8th century referring to the seven great… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Nanzen shika 南泉指花 | Ch: Nanquan zhihua. Lit. "Nanzen 南泉 (Ch: Nanquan) pointing at flowers." A Zen 禅 (Ch: Chan) dialogue in which the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Nanzen zanmyō 南泉斬猫 | Ch: Nanquan zhanmao. A painting subject depicting the Zen 禅 (Ch: Chan) parable of the priest Nanquan Puyuan (Jp:… |
Art History, Painting | |
| naoraiden 直会殿 | Also read noraidono, gesaiden 解斎殿. A shrine building to which priests retire after performing the Shinto… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| nara busshi 奈良仏師 | Also nankin busshi or nankyō busshi 南京仏師, yamashinadera busshi 山階寺仏師, otera busshi 御寺仏師… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| nara-ehon 奈良絵本 | A type of illustrated woodblock-printed book or handscroll popular from the Muromachi through mid-Edo periods. Although… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Nara jidai 奈良時代 | The Nara period (645-794). In 645 a coup to restore Imperial authority was carried out by Prince Naka no Ōe 中大兄 (later,… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| narabidō 双堂 | ✓ | Also read sōdō. Twin buildings in the grounds of a Japanese temple that are of equal length, but not necessarily of… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| narabigura 双倉 | ✓ | Also read sōsō. Lit. "twin storehouses." Two storehouses of the same size placed so that the space between was the… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| narihira sodegaki 業平袖垣 | Lit. "Narihira sleeve fence." A common type of rustic see-though sleeve fence, sukashi sodegaki 透袖垣. The frame,… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| Narukami 鳴神 | A pictorial theme based on the *kabuki 歌舞伎 play named after its… |
Art History, Painting | |
| narukodo 鳴子戸 | A gate used between the outer and inner gardens *roji 露地 leading to a teahouse *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| Narukomon 鳴子門 | ✓ | A simple gate located in the northeast corner ofthe inner moat uchi-no-hori 内の濠 of the inner citadel Honmaru 本丸 (… |
Architecture, Gates |
| Nasori 納曽利 | A dance piece in *bugaku 舞楽 and the mask *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| natabori 鉈彫 | A type of wooden sculpture characterized by round chisel nata 鉈 marks that are left on the surface. Natabori… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| natsume 棗 | ✓ | A tea caddy for storing weak green powdered tea. Also called *usuchaki… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| natsushōji 夏障子 | ✓ | Also sudare shōji 簾障子. Sliding screens *shōji 障子, that are… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| nawabari 縄張 | ✓ | Castle plan; general term for the layout of a castle and its component structures. Lit. "stretched rope," the term is said… |
Architecture, Castles |
| nawakakenuki 縄掛貫 | Also called nawakakesan or nawakakezan 縄掛桟, also pronounced nawakakezan. Lit. "rope-hanging beam… |
Architecture, General Terms |
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