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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
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
nehon 根本

The Kyoto-Osaka region kamigata 上方 term for a *kabuki 歌舞伎 play book…

Art History, Painting, Document
Niou no Miya 匂宮 ✓

A pictorial subject taken from "Niou no miya" ("His Perfumed Highness" or "Prince Niou"), Chapter 42 of Genji monogatari…

Art History, Painting, Document
Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji 偐紫田舎源氏

Lit. "The False Murasaki and the Rustic Genji." An extremely popular mid-19th century novel written by Ryūtei Tanehiko 柳亭種彦…

Art History, Painting, Document
Nowaki 野分 ✓

A pictorial subject based on "Nowaki" ("The Typhoon"), Chapter 28 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of Genji…

Art History, Painting, Document
Nuetaiji 鵺退治

Lit. "subjugation of the Fabulous Night Monster." A pictorial subject taken from a famous episode in Heike monogatari…

Art History, Painting, Document
Takekawa 竹河 ✓

A pictorial subject taken from "Takekawa" ("Bamboo River"), Chapter 44 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of…

Art History, Painting, Document
Tamakazura 玉鬘 ✓

A pictorial subject taken from "Tamakazura" ("The Jeweled Chaplet"), Chapter 22 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The…

Art History, Painting, Document
Tansei jakubokushū 丹青若木集

"Collection of Young Trees of Painting"; one-volume biography of Japanese painters by Kano Ikkei 狩野一渓 (1599-1662). Compiled…

Art History, Painting, Document
Teizō hisho 庭造秘書

Lit. "Secret Text on Garden Construction." A treatise on landscape design supposedly written first in the Muromachi period.…

Architecture, General Terms, Document
Tōhaku gasetsu 等伯画説

Tōhaku's Explanation of Painting, comments of the Momoyama period painter Hasegawa Tōhaku 長谷川等伯 (1539-1610) on well…

Art History, Painting, Document
Tokai hōkan 図絵宝鑑

Ch: Tuhui baojian. Precious Mirror of Painting, a late Yuan dynasty history of Chinese painting by Xia…

Art History, Painting, Document
Tokai sōi 図絵宗彜

Also sometimes read Zue sōi. Ch: Tuhui zongyi. Principles of Painting. Chinese painting manual…

Art History, Painting, Document
Tokonatsu 常夏 ✓

Lit. "everlasting summer." A pictorial subject taken from "Tokonatsu" ("Wild Carnations"), Chapter 26 of Genji…

Art History, Painting, Document
Tsukiyama teizōden 築山庭造伝

Lit. "Commentary on Landscape Gardens."

1 A mid-Edo book written by garden designer Kitamura Enkin…

Architecture, Gardens, Document
Tsuta-no-hosomichi 蔦の細道

Lit. "narrow road of ivy." Pictorial subject matter taken from Episode 9, *Azuma…

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