| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| omoteya 表屋 | A row of urban vernacular buildings *machiya 町家, directly facing the street at… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| omoteya-zukuri 表屋造 | ✓ | A layout of urban vernacular residences *machiya 町家, found during the Edo… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| ōmunamon 大棟門 | Also read ōmunekado. A large gate that is similar to another type of gate called *… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| ōmune 大棟 | Architecture, General Terms | ||
| ōmuseki 鸚鵡石 | A book containing excerpts from *kabuki 歌舞伎 plays, used by… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ōnaoshi 大直 | The second layer of a plastered wall. The first layer of a plastered wall is made of a rough clay-sod or mud-plaster mixture… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| onari goten 御成御殿 | A generic term used from the Muromachi through the Edo periods to indicate facilities provided for the visit of a shogun to… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| onari-niwa 御成庭 | Lit. "a visitor's garden." A garden at an aristocratic dwelling, located at the entrance for royalty, shogun and noblemen.… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| onarimon 御成門 | A visitor's or regent's gate. A type of *yakuimon 薬医門 or *… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| oni-arashikō ganna 鬼荒仕工鉋 | A preliminary roughing plane. The oni-arashiko ganna has only a single cutting blade, expressed as ichimaiganna… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| oni-ita 鬼板 | A wooden board or an undecorated tile used in place of ogre face tiles *onigawara鬼瓦 at each… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| onidai 鬼台 | ✓ | Also called onigawaradai 鬼瓦台, oni-itadai 鬼板台. The base material on the ridge ends of the main roof of… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| onigawara 鬼瓦 | Lit. "goblin-tile." 1 The generic name for decorative roof tiles found at the ends of a main ridge *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| Ōnintei 皇仁庭 | Art History, Sculpture | ||
| oniwaku 鬼枠 | A type of saw horse on which to place timber so that a carpenter can cut it easily. Two posts are sunk directly into the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| onna-e 女絵 | Onna-e (feminine painting) is a most maligned term that invites various interpretations, some even contradictory.… |
Art History, Painting | |
| onnamen 女面 | Noh masks *nōmen 能面 representing women. This category divides broadly into three… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| ono 斧 | An ax. The ax has existed since the Stone Age, and was one of the earliest implements used by man. Its design was improved,… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| onohajime 斧始 | Sometimes written 斧始め. Also te-onohajime 手斧始, katanahajime 刀始. A ceremony performed when an artist is… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| ōnoki 大軒 | Lit. "a big eave." An eave made of long base rafters *jidaruki 地垂木, which is… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Onrindō 園林堂 | A small, 2 × 2 1/2 bay private Buddhist hall (1685?) at Katsura Rikyū 桂離宮, Kyoto. The hall has a tiled roof *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| onryōmen 怨霊面 | Noh masks *nōmen 能面 of ghosts and spirits. Although all the … |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| ōnuki 大貫 | An archaic term for a tie beam roughly 3.6 m long by 11 cm wide by 2.5 cm thick. Cedar or cypress were commonly used. Now… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ōōban 大々判 | Lit. "extra large format." A size of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 print. The term ōōban… |
Art History, Painting | |
| orekugi 折釘 | ✓ | A type of hooked nail made from one piece of iron. It is bent at a right angle and is square in cross section. The name is a… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| oriage gōtenjō 折上格天井 | ✓ | A coved and coffered ceiling. The coved part has curved struts. It surrounds the coffered ceiling and at the same time… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| oriage kogumi gōtenjō 折上小組格天井 | ✓ | A coved, coffered and finely latticed ceiling. When the height of a ceiling of the same type is increased by curved struts… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| oriage tenjō 折上天井 | ✓ | A coved ceiling. A ceiling raised by diagonally placed straight timbers *shirin… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| oribe dōrō 織灯籠 | A small lantern used to light pathways. It is baseless and inserted directly into the earth. On top is a spherical jewel *… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| oribedoko 織部床 | A wall space allotted for hanging a scroll rather than a true alcove. It is characterized by a smoothly planed board, 15-20… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| oribeguchi 織部口 | An entrance to the guest's seat in a tea ceremony room. The size is between that of a noblemen's entrance *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| oribei 折塀 | A castle wall that is undulates with indentations and protrusions. It is designed to allow for the strategic placement of… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| oribemado 織部窓 | Also called monokakemado 物掛窓. A type of rustic window *shitajimado… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| oribeyaki 織部焼 | ✓ | Oribe 織部 ware. Produced mainly from 1600 to the 1630s, this high-fired pottery juxtaposing rich fluid glazes with abstract… |
Art History, Crafts |
| origami 折紙 | Lit. "folded paper." |
Art History, Painting | |
| orihon 折本 | ✓ | Also jōsōbon 帖装本 and orijō 折帖 or jō 帖. Ch: zheben (Jp: shōhon 摺本). An… |
Art History, Painting |
| oriido-no-kagenoki 下り井戸の影の樹 | Lit. "spiral well with shade tree." A tree planted near a spiral well *oriido 下り井戸 so that it… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| oriido 下り井戸 | Lit. "descending well." A deep well. It is also called spiral well rasei 螺井, or snail well maimai ido… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| oriokigumi 折置組 | ✓ | Also orioki 折置. Method of assembly in a building's structural frame. A method of fixing a transverse beam *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| orizama 折狭間 | A loophole in a wall *oribei 折塀 that zigzags back and forth like a folding screen *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| ōsakado 大阪戸 | A plastered sliding door on a storehouse, kura 蔵. During the early 17th century they became heavy and thick,… |
Architecture, Storehouses | |
| oshi-e 押絵 | Fabric pictures. Representations of figures, birds, animals, flowers, landscapes or characters of a poem that are cut out of… |
Art History, Painting | |
| oshi-ita 押板 | 1 A low four-legged table used in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods in upper class priestly and lay… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| oshibuchi 押縁 | Lit. "pushing frame." The horizontal bars to which the vertical slats *tateko… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| oshidashibutsu 押出仏 | Also tsuichōbutsu 鎚ちょう仏. A repose relief depicting Buddhist deities (and the technique involved). Usually small,… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| ōshukubai 鴬宿梅 | Lit. "the plum tree where the warbler dwells." A painting subject inspired by an episode in the 10th-century tale in … |
Art History, Painting | |
| osue 御末 | Also written 男末. |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| otabisho shinden 御旅所神殿 | Also *otabisho 御旅所. Otabi 御旅 (revered journey); sho 所 (space); shinden… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| otabisho 御旅所 | Also otabi-no-miya 御旅宮, otabi 御旅, tabisho 旅所, mikoshiyadori 神輿舎. |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| otafuku お多福 | Also okame おかめ, ofuku お福, otogoze 乙御前, and *sanpei… |
Art History, Painting | |
| otafukubishi 御多福菱 | A decorative diamond pattern created by a series of indented curved lines. Occasionally the pattern is used for mullions *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| ōtan 黄丹 | Also pronounced ōdan, ōni. A deep yellow color, produced by dyeing yellow gardenia *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ōte 大手 | Also written 追手. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| ōtemon 大手門 | The front gate of a castle. Derive from *ōte 大手, the front of a castle or… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| Ōtenmon 応天門 | The red-painted front gate, 5 x 2 bays with three entrances that provided access from the south to enter the *… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| oto 乙 | Also otogoze 乙御前. A mask of a young woman, used in kyōgen 狂言 plays. Oto has a fat, dimpled face… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| ōtobide 大飛出 | Also tobide 飛出. A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing the God of… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| otogi zōshi 御伽草子 | Popular stories which flourished from the late Kamakura to the early Edo period. The name derives from an early 18th-century… |
Art History, Painting | |
| otoko masugami 男十寸髪 | Also masugami otoko 十寸髪男. Noh masks *nōmen 能面 of male… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| otokomen 男面 | Noh masks *nōmen 能面 representing men. These realistic portrayals… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Otome 乙女 | ✓ | A pictorial subject taken from "Otome" ("The Maiden"), Chapter 21 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of Genji… |
Art History, Painting, Document |
| ōtori-zukuri 大鳥造 | A simple style of main shrine building *honden 本殿, with gable roof *… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| otoshigake 落掛 | The lintel of the alcove *tokonoma 床の間, in a tea room or a window in a shoin style *… | Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| otoshikama 落鎌 | ✓ | Also called sagekama 下鎌. A commonly used half-blind, gooseneck tenon *kama… |
Architecture, Joints |
| Ōtsu-e 大津絵 | Also known as oiwake-e 追分絵, derived from place names on the outskirts of Ōtsu. Small paintings produced for… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ōtsugaki 大津垣 | Also called yarai 矢来, yaraigaki 矢来垣, chōsengaki 朝鮮垣, and chōsen yarai 朝鮮矢来… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| ōtsushibari 大津縛 | An abbreviation of ki-ōtsushibari 黄大津縛. A yellow clay applied about 4-5 cm thick in order to hide and protect the… |
Architecture, Storehouses | |
| ottori 追取 | The handle of a tea scoop *chashaku 茶杓, used to prepare powdered green… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| oue 御上 | 1 The wife of a member of the upper classes and her living chambers. The term, used in the Muromachi period… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| ōya-ishi 大谷石 | Neocene quartz. A type of soft volcanic tuff that is rough, porous and easily worked. It is a light, bluish greenish brown… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| oyama-e おやま絵 | Also *yūjo-e 遊女絵. The term used in Osaka for pictures of… |
Art History, Painting | |
| ōyoroi 大鎧 | Lit. "big armor." The most formal type of armor for high-ranking samurai 侍, it was loose-fitting defensive… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| oyudono-ue 御湯殿上 | A room connected to the *oyudono 御湯殿 where utensils for the emperor's meals were kept.… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| oyudono 御湯殿 | 1 A north room in the western pent-roof structure *hisashi 廂… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| ōyuka 大床 | 1 The board-floor veranda at the top of the steps of a shrine building. The veranda at the bottom of the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| ōyuya 大湯屋 | ✓ | Also called yuya 湯屋, yokushitsu 浴室, onshitsu 温室. A bathhouse. Traditionally, a separate… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| sabi さび | Also written 寂. |
Art History, Architecture, General Terms | |
| sabi-urushi 錆漆 | Also sabi 錆. A paste made by mixing powdered burnt clay *tonoko 砥の粉… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| sabibori サビ彫 | When woodblocks are being carved to reproduce pages of handwritten characters, sometimes the point of a small knife will be… |
Art History, Painting | |
| sabikabe 錆壁 | The finishing coat on a wall that consists of iron rust mixed with clay or plaster. Originally, old nails were boiled, and… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| sadōguchi 茶道口 | ✓ | Also written 茶堂口, 茶頭口; also chatateguchi 茶立口, or *katteguchi 勝手口.… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| sagabon 嵯峨本 | Also called kōetsubon 光悦本 or suminokurabon 角倉本, although some scholars consider each of these names to… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Sagano 嵯峨野 | A pictorial subject of an area in the western part of Kyoto city, famous for autumn grasses and singing insects. Besides… |
Art History, Painting | |
| sagefuri 下振 | Also called shōjiki 正直. A plumb line with a plumb bob, furiko 振子, at the lower end. The plumb bob is a… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| sagekiri 下げ切 | A little used placement of the firebox *ro 炉, in a tea ceremony room *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| sagiashi 鷺足 | Also sagi-no-ashi. Lit. "heron's leg." A type of long, curved leg found on a Chinese style desk, tōzukue… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| sahari 響銅 | Also written 佐波理. An alloy of copper containing less than ten percent tin, lead and zinc and of a pale yellowish color. It… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| saiben rengemon 細弁蓮華文 | Lit. "narrow petal lotus motif." A motif with as many as twelve or sixteen narrow petals found on some circular pendant… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| Saiendō 西円堂 | ✓ | An octagonal hall at Hōryūji 法隆寺, Nara, which was destroyed by a typhoon in 1050. The structure was rebuilt in 1250. It is… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| Saigyō monogatari-e 西行物語絵 | Paintings based on Saigyō monogatari 西行物語 (The Tale of Saigyō), a fictionalization of the poet-priest… |
Art History, Painting | |
| saijō 斎場 | 1 An area temporarily purified to erect temporary buildings and facilities for performing the *… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| saikakubon 西鶴本 | The name for a group of *ukiyo zōshi 浮世草子 (books of the floating world;… |
Art History, Painting | |
| saikan sanyū 歳寒三友 | Ch: suihan sanyou. Lit. "three friends of wintery seasons." A painting theme featuring pine matsu 松, plum… |
Art History, Painting | |
| saikan 斎館 | Also *kandachi 神館, shinkan 神館. |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| saiken 細見 | Also Yoshiwara saiken 吉原細見. Annually published guide to the new *Yoshiwara… |
Art History, Painting | |
| saikondō 西金堂 | An image hall *kondō 金堂 situated to the west of a pagoda in temple grounds.… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| saimitsuga 細密画 | Miniature paintings in a detailed style best suited for fans or albums. Two other terms, mitsuga 密画 and saiga… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Saimon 西門 | An eight-legged *hakkyakumon 八脚門, 3-bay wide, 1-entrance gate with a gable… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| Saimyōji shiorido 西明寺枝折戸 | Lit. "Saimyōji 西明寺-style latticed bamboo door." One type of raised lattice door *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| sairei zu 祭礼図 | Lit. "festival pictures." Paintings that originated in folk beliefs and Shinto rituals shinji 神事, mostly related to… |
Art History, Painting |
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