| 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 |
| tabigeta 旅桁 | 1 One of the purlins used in a hidden roof *noyane … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tachiagari 立上 | A vertical timber that rises from a level or inclined surface. In modular measurement of timber *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tachichōzubachi 立手水鉢 | ✓ | Lit. "standing water basin." A type of tall basin *chōzubachi 手水鉢 that can… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| tachikibutsu 立木仏 | Lit. "standing tree Buddha." A Buddhist image carved on a living tree or on wood that retains the form of the original tree… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| tachisama 立狭間 | A loophole *sama 狭間 cut in a wall about chest high to a standing soldier.… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| tagane 鏨 | Graver. A sharp, pointed steel tool used in metalwork and stone carving. Used for engraving, carving, and chiselling,… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| tagasode 誰袖 | Lit. "whose sleeves?" Painting theme depicting beautiful kimono 着物 draped across a wooden rack, ikō … |
Art History, Painting | |
| tahōtō 多宝塔 | ✓ | A 2-storied pagoda that developed from the circular, roofed one called *hōtō 宝塔… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| tai-no-shiro 対の城 | Lit. "confronting castle." Also termed mukaijiro 向城 (facing castle) and *tsukejiro… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| taibō 大房 | Also pronounced daibō. A large room 6.7 m wide and 12.7 m deep, constructed in a style customary from about the mid… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| taiheibire 大瓶鰭 | Also oigata 笈形, *gasshōhire 合掌鰭. A pair of decorative sculpted… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| taiheizuka 大瓶束 | ✓ | Lit. "large bottle strut." A strut that is used mainly in Zen style architecture *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| taiko-otoshi 太鼓落 | ✓ | The trimming or hewing of the opposite sides of a log so that the surfaces become flat and parallel making it easier to join… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| taiko 太孤 | Old Persian man taikofu 太孤父 and young Persian boy taikoji 太孤児, two types of gigaku masks *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| taikobari fusuma 太鼓張襖 | ✓ | Also called taikobari 太鼓張, fukuroshōji 袋障子, bōzufusuma 坊主襖. |
Architecture, General Terms |
| taikobashi 太鼓橋 | ✓ | Also called soribashi 反橋. An arched bridge made of stone or wood. One example is the Yoka Jinja 与賀神社 (1607) in Saga… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| Taikōbō 太公望 | Ch: Taigongwang. A Chinese scholar who was thought to be a paragon of humble virtue and learned accomplishment, and who… |
Art History, Painting | |
| taikodo 太鼓戸 | ✓ | A door frame covered on both sides with boards or panels. The inside of the door, like a drum taiko 太鼓, is empty.… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| Taima mandara 当麻曼荼羅 | Mandala of Taima. The most complete depiction of the *Kangyō hensō… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| tainaibutsu 胎内仏 | A small Buddhist image that is placed inside a larger one as an offering. In most cases, older images were placed inside… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| taisha 代赭 | Red ochre. A red pigment whose main component is ferric oxide (haematite), Fe203. Used in Japanese style painting *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| taisha-zukuri 大社造 | ✓ | Also called ōyashiro-zukuri. The oldest style of shrine architecture. Its small scale is thought to resemble that… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| taishaku 大尺 | Lit. "large shaku 尺." An ancient unit of length. Introduced in the Taihōryō 大宝令 codes of 701, it measured 35.6 cm,… |
Architecture, Measurement | |
| Taishakuten 帝釈天 | A major Hindu god called Indra or Sakra who has two major roles in Buddhist literature, one as king of the gods and lord of… |
Art History, Iconography |
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