| 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. |
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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