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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
sumichigai 隅違い

1 A term referring to the arrangement of the utensils employed during a tea ceremony. Specifically, …

Architecture, Tea Houses
Sumidagawa 隅田川

A river that flows through the eastern part of Tokyo, down to Tokyo Bay. It became a famous place, meisho 名所 due to…

Art History, Painting
sumidomoe 隅巴

Also called honsumigawara 本隅瓦; sumi tomoegawara 隅巴瓦. A half-round, corner, eave-end, pendant tile; also…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
sumigaki 墨画

1 A general technical term for painting in black ink *sumi 墨, meaning without…

Art History, Painting
sumigawara 墨瓦 ✓

Also called corner eave tiles, noki-no-sumigawara 軒の隅瓦. A general term for the tiles used at the corner of a…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
sumigi futagawara 隅木蓋瓦 ✓

A long, narrow, rectangular tile cover used to protect the edge of a hip rafter from weathering. It is conjectured that…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
sumigi-no-fure 隅木の振

Also called furezumi 振隅. The degree of roof deflection on a roof that has a different degree of incline on the…

Architecture, General Terms
sumigi 隅木 ✓

Also called sumidaruki 隅垂木 and ōdaruki大垂木. A hip rafter or corner rafter that forms a diagonal ridge which…

Architecture, General Terms
sumigisaki gawara 隅木先瓦

Decorative clay tiles shaped to fit snugly over the crosscut, exposed end of a hip rafter, sumigi daruki 隅木垂木. The…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
sumiguma 墨暈

Also written 墨隈. A shading *kumadori 隈取 technique using black…

Art History, Painting
sumihijiki 隅肘木

Also called *sumiyuki hijiki 隅行肘木, or ushihijiki 牛肘木. A corner…

Architecture, General Terms
sumijiri-ishi 隅尻石

Lit. "corner tail stone." The stone that butts against the rear face tomozura 友面 of the corner stone *…

Architecture, Castles
sumikake 墨掛

The ink identification marks on a large timber which indicated where it is to be cut into planks, pillars, rafters, ridge,…

Architecture, General Terms
sumimendo gawara 隅面戸瓦

Also sumimendo 隅面戸. A roof tile fillet. An asymmetric fillet positioned below the corner descending ridge *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
suminagashi 墨流し

A paper decoration design *ryōshi sōshoku 料紙装飾 similar to a marble…

Art History, Painting
suminawa 墨縄

Also known as sumi-ito 墨糸. A carpenter's inking line. It is used for drawing a reference line (the procedure is…

Architecture, Tools
sumioyabashira 隅親柱

The end or corner newel post of a railing *kōran 高欄. The post is topped by a…

Architecture, General Terms
sumiro 隅炉

One of several arrangements for positioning the fire-box *ro 炉 or fixed hearth in a…

Architecture, Tea Houses
sumisashi 墨刺

Also written 墨芯. A bamboo brush or drawing spatula. The tip of a piece of bamboo is sharpened into a pallet shape and then…

Architecture, Tools
sumisonae 隅備 ✓

Also written 隅具. Also called sumitokyō 隅斗きょう. A bracket complex *tokyō…

Architecture, General Terms
sumitoridana 隅取棚

Also sumidana 隅棚. An ornamental, triangular shelf made to fit into the corner of a decorative alcove *…

Architecture, General Terms
sumitsubo 墨壷

Carpenter's ink pot, or ink pad. The sumitsubo, unlike other carpentry tools, does not have a fixed shape or size.…

Architecture, Tools
sumiumadashi 隅馬出

A castle entrance barrier *umadashi 馬出, erected at the corner of an…

Architecture, Castles
sumiyagura 隅櫓 ✓

A corner tower. Also written 角櫓. A timber-framed tower set on the corner of a castle wall where two stone walls jut out. In…

Architecture, Castles
Sumiyoshi-ha 住吉派

A school of painting that specialized in the *yamato-e やまと絵…

Art History, Painting
sumiyoshi torii 住吉鳥居

A stone gate-like entrance, torii of the myōjin type *myōjin…

Architecture, Shrines
sumiyoshi-zukuri 住吉造

A style of main sanctuary *honden 本殿 in Shinto shrine…

Architecture, Shrines
sumiyuki hijiki 隅行肘木

Also called *sumihijiki 隅肘木, tsunohijiki 角肘木 and ushihijiki…

Architecture, General Terms
sumiyukibari 隅行梁

A beam that runs parallel to a hip rafter, also called a common rafter *sumigi 隅木, or any…

Architecture, General Terms
sumō-e 相撲絵

Prints of sumō 相撲 wrestlers entering the ring, locked in combat or strolling along busy streets. Together with…

Art History, Painting
sunagata 砂型

A method of metal casting using sand. Sand was contained in a frame, and a raw clay model of the desired object was pressed…

Art History, Sculpture
sunago 砂子

A type of foil *kirihaku 切箔, usually gold or silver, cut so finely that…

Art History, Painting
sunagozuri 砂子摺

Lit. "gold dust printing." A technique used for woodblock printmaking *ukiyo-e…

Art History, Painting
sunasetchin 砂雪隠

Lit. "sand toilet." Originally a functioning toilet for use during tea gatherings, it later became a purely ornamental…

Architecture, Tea Houses
sunazuri 砂摺

A plaster coating on a storehouse wall about 4.5 mm thick. Traditionally the mixture by volume was 10 parts of sand, 15…

Architecture, Storehouses
sundori 寸取

Also suntori; also called issundori 一寸取, sun-osae 寸押 and sunkazoe 寸数. A method of…

Architecture, Measurement
suneate 脛当

Also suneate 臑当. A piece of leather or metal armor used to protect the shin. Used since the Kofun period, and…

Art History, Sculpture
sunoko 簀子 ✓

A slatted floor or duckboard floor made of boards or bamboo laid parallel with space between; each board is called …

Architecture, General Terms
sunokogumi 簀組

Bracket complexes constructed beneath a veranda to give it support.

Architecture, General Terms
sunuki 簀貫

A penetrating beam used as the backing and bracing for the various layers of plaster in the thick walls of a storehouse *…

Architecture, Storehouses
suō 蘇芳

A purplish-red dye senryō 染料 color name, and the plant from which it is made. The su plant sappanwood…

Art History, Painting
suriage shōji 摺上障子 ✓

Also written 摺揚障子. Also called *agesage shōji 上下障子.

Architecture, General Terms
suribotoke 摺仏

Also read shūbutsu. A Buddhist image printed in ink on paper or cloth, and often placed inside a Buddhist statue (…

Art History, Sculpture
surihaku 摺箔

Rubbed metal foil. A decorative technique for textiles in which metal foil is impressed on a design first drawn in paste.…

Art History, Crafts
surimono 摺物

Lit. "printed matter." High quality, privately sponsored woodblock prints mainly produced 1790's-1830's. Originally, the…

Art History, Painting
surinuki 摺抜

Lit. "omitting a printing." An *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 woodblock printmaking…

Art History, Painting
susa すさ

Written susa 寸莎. Also tsuta つた. A generic term for fibrous substances, including straw, hemp, or paper…

Architecture, General Terms
sushiki 素式

1 A wall with an entirely flat white surface.

2 A simple board wall.

Architecture, General Terms
sute-ishi 捨石

Lit. "discarded stone." One of the seven trump stones *nanatsu-ishi…

Architecture, Tea Houses
sutebori 捨堀

Moats dug in open areas some distance from a castle, to hinder the advance of enemy forces.

Architecture, Castles
suteguruwa 捨郭

A sacrificial compound constructed in front of a main compound. A camp used to launch an attacking force. When a force moves…

Architecture, Castles
sutemayu 捨眉

A type of molding *kurigata 繰形 incised on the lower edge of a…

Architecture, Decorations
suteto 捨斗 ✓

Also sutedo. A bracket *tokyō 斗きょう that has the same…

Architecture, General Terms
Suzakumon 朱雀門

The front gate at the center of the south end of the outer enclosure that surrounded the palace compound at Heijō-kyō 平城京…

Architecture, Gates
suzumeguchi 雀口 ✓

Lit. "sparrow entrance, exit." A gap under the eave end tiles *nokisakigawara…

Architecture, General Terms
suzumeodori 雀踊 ✓

Lit. "sparrow dance." A widely-used term for a range of elements used to decorate the ridge of the roof in vernacular houses…

Architecture, General Terms, Folk Dwellings
Suzumushi 鈴虫 ✓

A pictorial subject taken from "Suzumushi" ("The Bell Cricket"), Chapter 38 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale…

Art History, Painting
suzuri 硯

Also written 研. Inkstone. A base made of stone or other material used for grinding *sumi…

Art History, Painting
suzuribako 硯箱

A box designed to hold an inkstone *suzuri 硯 and other writing tools, such as an…

Art History, Painting

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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