| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| tenmokuyū 天目釉 | A black glaze used on straight-sided conical teabowls known as tenmoku ware *tenmoku… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| tenne 天衣 | Also tenne 纏衣. A long, narrow strip of ornamental cloth, found on images of *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| tennori 天載 | The placement of one planed timber on top of another planed timber without making any notches. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Tenpyō jidai 天平時代 | The Tenpyō period (710-794) begins with the transfer of the capital from Fujiwara 藤原 to Nara (Heijō-kyō 平城京) in 710, and… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| tenshu shinbashira 天守心柱 | Lit. "tower central pillar." A pillar found in the main structure of castles, sometimes used singly and sometimes in pairs.… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| tenshu 天守 | ✓ | Also called tenshukaku 天守閣, tenshuyagura 天守櫓. Also written 天主, 殿主, and 殿守. The principal tower-like… |
Architecture, Castles |
| tenshudai 天守台 | ✓ | The independent raised foundation upon which the principal tower *tenshu 天守 was constructed.… |
Architecture, Castles |
| teppeiseki 鉄平石 | Lit. "flat iron stone." A type of andesite quarried in the Suwa 諏訪 and Kitasaku 北佐久 regions of Nagano Prefecture. The flat,… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| teppō sama 鉄砲狭間 | Also called jūgan 銃眼 (loophole). A gun loophole or gun port. An opening through which to shoot a firearm from… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| teppōdoko 鉄砲床 | A term for an alcove or recess of the *oshi-ita 押板 type found in… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| teppōgaki 鉄砲垣 | Lit. "musket fence." A type of *sodegaki 袖垣 or *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| terakōbai 寺勾配 | Also termed nawadarumi 縄だるみ (slackened rope). A concave shaped stone wall with a curved surface that resembles a… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| tesaki 手先 | 1 A term used to count the number of steps of a bracket complex. For example, futatesaki 二手先, … |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| teshoku-ishi 手燭石 | Lit. "candlestick stone." One of the *yaku-ishi 役石 of the *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| tessenbyō 鉄線描 | Ch: tiexianmiao. Lit. "iron-wire line drawing." A technique used to render the thin, even lines commonly seen in… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tesuri 手摺 | A balustrade along a stairway or surrounding a shallow balcony on a high gate *rōmon… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tetsubutsu 鉄仏 | A Buddhist statue made of cast iron. Cast iron statues were not as common in Japan as bronze (see *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Tetsumon 鉄門 | A unique gate at Himeji-jō 姫路城 'Nu'-no-mon 'ぬ'の門 (1601-10), Hyōgo Prefecture. It is tall and has a double story and… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| Tō Enmei 陶淵明 | Ch: Tao Yuanming (365-427). The Jin dynasty poet and quintessential Chinese scholar-recluse. A virtual prototype for the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| To Ho 杜甫 | Ch: Du Fu (712-770). A Chinese poet, considered to be one of China's greatest. An innovator of both poetic style and subject… |
Art History, Painting | |
| to 戸 | The structured elements that cover a window, entrance, or other opening to protect them from the weather or the inside of… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| to-ishi 砥石 | A whetstone, grinder, or grindstone. A tool used to sharpen the blade of a plane or chisel. Carpenters used a set of ranging… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| to-ita 戸板 | The boards used for the construction of a door including: *mairado 舞良戸 (one… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tō 塔 | Also called tōba 塔婆, sotoba 卒都婆 or *tasōtō 多層塔 (many-layered… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| toatari 戸当 | Also called toyose 戸寄. A door stop. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| toba-e 鳥羽絵 | A caricature picture *giga 戯画 which was popular in the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Tobatsu Bishamonten 兜跋毘沙門天 | A manifestation of *Bishamonten 毘沙門天 said to have appeared in the Central Asian… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| tobi-ishi 飛石 | ✓ | Lit. "stepping stones." As the key material for the path of the *roji … |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| tobi-ishidan 飛石段 | Lit. "stepping stone stairs." A type of stepping stone *tobi-ishi 飛石, placed on a slope to… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| tobibari 飛梁 | Also called tobimono 飛物 or hiryō 飛梁. A beam that extends from the eave purlin *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tobira 扉 | ✓ | A pivot-hinged door. *To 戸 refers to sliding doors. However, in a compound word such… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tobiragamae 扉構 | The structure or composition of a door fitting. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tobirasuji 扉筋 | Also called tobiradōri 扉通. The alignment of gate pillars *hashira… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Tōbō Saku 東方朔 | Ch: Dongfang Shuo (ca. 154-93 BCE). A Chinese Daoist immortal of the Western Jin associated with the peaches of immortality… |
Art History, Painting | |
| toboso 枢 | Also sūjiku 枢軸. An almost obsolete term for pivot *jikuzuri 軸吊. The… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tobukuro 戸袋 | ✓ | A box-like structure into which the rain shutters *amado 雨戸 are stored when not… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tōcha 闘茶 | Tea contest. Competitive parties featuring taste and classification of tea developed by Heian period aristocrats and wildly… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| tochibuki 栩葺 | A type of board roofing *itabuki yane 板葺屋根, whereby boards … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tōdaimon 東大門 | The main, east gate of a temple compound. |
Architecture, Gates | |
| todasuke 斗助 | ✓ | Also called masudasuke, tosuke; totsunagi 斗繋. The reinforcement pieces cut into some types… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tōge 峠 | 1 The highest point or top surface of a structural element. For example, keta-no-tōge 桁の峠… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tōgen-zu 桃源図 | Ch: taoyuantu. Paintings depicting the Chinese story Peach Blossom Spring (Ch: Taohuayuanji, Jp… |
Art History, Painting | |
| togō 東江 | Art History, Sculpture | ||
| toguchi 戸口 | An entrance or doorway, the doorsteps; doormat. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Tōgudō 東求堂 | Lit. "east seeking hall." A small building at Jishōji 慈照寺, also popularly known as Ginkakuji 銀閣寺 (1485), Kyoto, built by… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| 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 | |
| Tōhō koshō 桐峯虎声 | Also read Dōhō kosei. Lit. "Dongfeng's tiger voice." A Zen 禅 dialogue in which a tiger is a metaphor for spiritual… |
Art History, Painting | |
| toi 樋 | Also called toyo とよ. A generic term for a gutter. When used in traditional architecture, it was generally made of… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| toiuke-ishi 樋受石 | A stone or stones onto which the water that flows down a drain pipe splashes. These stones prevent ground erosion from a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tōjaku 唐尺 | Also tōdaishaku 唐大尺 or tenpyōshaku 天平尺. An ancient unit of measure, approximately 29.6 cm. Renamed *… |
Architecture, Measurement | |
| tojō 外城 | Also read sotojiro. An outer castle or fortification. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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 | |
| Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi 東海道五十三次 | Lit. "Eastern Sea [coast] Road, fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō 東海道," which is the road and rest places that linked… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tokin 鍍金 | Gilding. A decorative technique used in metalwork, where an object was coated with a thin layer of gold. In Japan, this… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| tokiwagi 常盤木 | Lit. "evergreen tree." A pine matsu 松, cryptomeria sugi 杉, or sakaki 榊, found in almost all types… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| tokkosho 独鈷杵 | A pestle with a single sharp blade at each end, found as an attribute *jimotsu… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| toko-bashira 床柱 | ✓ | Also called nihon-bashira 二本柱, because originally both the pillars to the left and right of the alcove *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| toko 床 | Also read yuka. 1 Abbreviation for an alcove *tokonoma… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| toko-ita 床板 | Also ji-ita 地板. The floorboards laid in an alcove *tokonoma 床の間. The… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tokogamachi 床框 | A transverse member set across the front of the bottom part of an alcove *tokonoma… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tokomado 床窓 | The window in the alcove *tokonoma 床の間 of tea ceremony rooms *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| tokomise 床見世 | Also written 床店. A small shop *mise 店, or stall, used for retail… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tokoname-yaki 常滑焼 | Tokoname 常滑 ware. A rugged, reddish brown stoneware produced from the 11th century in and around the town of Tokoname in… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| Tokonatsu 常夏 | ✓ | Lit. "everlasting summer." A pictorial subject taken from "Tokonatsu" ("Wild Carnations"), Chapter 26 of Genji… |
Art History, Painting, Document |
| tōkondō 東金堂 | Also originally called higashi butsuden'in 東仏殿院. A worship hall placed to the east of the pagoda *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| tokonoma 床の間 | Lit. "alcove room." A *tatami 畳 mat room with a small alcove. There… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| tokowaki 床脇 | The place adjacent to an alcove *tokonoma 床の間, where various types of shelves… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Tokugawa jidai 徳川時代 | The Tokugawa period. A rarely used term for the Edo period *Edo jidai… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| tokuri-bashira 徳利柱 | Also dōbari 胴張り. Lit. "entasis." A tall circular pillar, column, or post which curves gradually reaching its widest… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tokusabei 木賊塀 | A type of formal fence associated with the walls surrounding nobles' homes and tearooms *… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| tokusajō 木賊尉 | A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing an old, plebeian man used only… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Tokuzan 徳山 | Ch: Deshan. The Chinese priest Deshan Xuanjian (Jp: Tokuzan Senkan 徳山宣鑑, 780-865) who helped preserve Chan 禅 (Jp: Zen) after… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tokyō 斗きょう | ✓ | Also called kumimono 組物 or *masugumi 斗組. A bracket complex composed… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tome 留 | ✓ | A simple miter. The timbers are cut obliquely, usually at 45 degrees, or any other angle as long as the two adjoining… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tomebutagawara 留蓋瓦 | ✓ | Also called tomebuta 留蓋; amabutagawara 雨蓋瓦; sumibutagawara 隅蓋瓦. A cover tile, usually… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| tomobeya 伴部屋 | Also written 供部屋. A room used principally by the servants or attendants tomo 伴, 供 of high ranking visitors both as… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tomoegawara 巴瓦 | ✓ | Also nokitomoe 軒巴, *nokidomoegawara 軒巴瓦. A very… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| tomoemon 巴文 | 1 Also tomoe 巴. A pattern of one or more curled tadpole shapes inside a circle. The pattern is… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Painting, Art History | |
| tonbo kanagu 蜻蛉金具 | Lit. "dragonfly metal fitting." A type of decorative metal fitting *kazari kanagu… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| tonehiragawara 利根平瓦 | Also tonehira 利根平, 刀根平. |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| tonemarugawara 利根丸瓦 | Also called tonemaru 利根丸, 刀根丸, onigiwa marugawara 鬼際丸瓦. This occurs when there is a drooping verge *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| tonoko 砥の粉 | Powdered burnt clay or pulverized whetstone. Used for polishing swords and coloring wood. Tonoko was mixed with… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| tōō 藤黄 | Also kusashiō 草雌黄, abbreviated to *shiō 雌黄. Gamboge.… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Tori yōshiki 止利様式 | A style of sculpture represented by the work of the 7th-century sculptor known as Tori busshi 止利仏師. Tori was believed to be… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| toribusuma 鳥衾 | ✓ | Also written 鳥伏間. Also called toriyasumi 鳥休 (bird rest) or suzumegawara 雀瓦. A cylindrical bird perch tile… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| toride 砦 | Also written 取出, 取手, 塞 also 寨. A small-scale fort, fortification, or stronghold. A structure built near the main castle or… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| Torii-ha 鳥居派 | Lit. "Torii school." A family of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 artists which became a… |
Art History, Painting | |
| torii 鳥居 | Also written 鳥栖; 鶏栖. Lit. "bird perch." At one time, torii were called uefukazu-no-mikado or… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| toriimon 鳥居門 | Lit. "bird perch gate." A shrine gate with a board fence attached to the outer part of each of the two pillars. A *… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| toriizuka 鳥居束 | Row of paired struts *tsuka 束 flanking the king posts *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tōriniwa 通り庭 | ✓ | Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| torinokogami 鳥の子紙 | Also written 鳥子紙. Sometimes abbreviated to torinoko. An eggshell colored, handmade paper *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tōrō 灯籠 | ✓ | Also written 灯篭. A lantern. The earliest were introduced to Japan from China through Korea along with Buddhism in the 6th… |
Architecture, Lanterns |
| tōryō 棟梁 | A master carpenter. A title applied to carpenters from the 16th century onward whose experience qualified them to be leaders… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Tosa-ha 土佐派 | A school of painting, active from the early 15th century until the late 19th, that specialized in courtly subjects painted… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tōsei kabuto 当世兜 | Also written 当世冑. Contemporary helmet. A type of Japanese helmet based on southern barbarian *… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| tōshi-bashira 通し柱 | Also read tōri-bashira 通り柱 or tate nobose-bashira 建登せ柱. A single, uncut member that serves as a post… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tōshi hozo 通しほぞ | Also called tōshi hozosashi 通しほぞ差; uchinuki hozo 打抜ほぞ. A through tenon and mortise angle joint. A… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| tōshi 唐紙 | A type of Chinese paper imported and used in Japan for painting and calligraphy and as backing paper urazuke 裏付 for… |
Art History, Painting |
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