| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| taishidō 太子堂 | A hall either dedicated to Shōtoku Taishi 聖徳太子 (ca. 574-622), the second son of Emperor Yōmei 用明 (r. 585-87), or a building… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| taishoku 褪色 | Fading. A lessening of the intensity of a color by exposure to sunlight or air. Chemically unstable dyes or pigments undergo… |
Art History, Painting | |
| taishōtoku 退走禿 | "Running in retreat," a *bugaku 舞楽 dance and mask *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| taisō byōbu 太宗屏風 | A type of folding screen *byōbu 屏風 used in the Imperial Palace… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Taizō kyūzuyō 胎蔵旧図様 | A collection of iconographical line drawings *hakubyō 白描 in handscroll form… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| Taizō zuzō 胎蔵図像 | A collection of iconographical line drawings *hakubyō 白描 in handscroll form… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| Taizōkai mandara 胎蔵界曼荼羅 | A *mandara 曼荼羅 based on the Dainichikyō 大日経 (Sk: … |
Art History, Iconography | |
| taka-no-hashi 鷹の嘴 | Lit. "hawk's beak." A decorative, curved pattern often found on moldings. The pattern has pointed tips like a bird's beak.… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| takagari 鷹狩 | A pictorial subject depicting the sport of falconry, birds trained to hunt cranes tsuru 鶴, pheasants kiji… |
Art History, Painting | |
| takahei 高塀 | Also pronounced takahe. The gable walls of the central thatched portion kirizuma 切妻 of the roof *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| takahei-zukuri 高塀造り | Also pronounced takahe-zukuri. Lit. "high wall construction." Also called *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| takaikegaki 高生垣 | A hedge, 3 to 5 m high, planted as a wind screen or for fire control. |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| takaku-bashira 多角柱 | A pillar or post that is multi-sided or cut with many facets. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| takama bussho 高間仏所 | Also takaya bussho 高矢仏所. A guild of Buddhist sculptors active in Nara *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| takarabune 宝船 | ✓ | A sailboat hokakebune 帆掛船 at full sail, loaded with rice bushels and treasures takara 宝, often bearing the… |
Art History, Iconography |
| Takasago 高砂 | Now a modern city on the Inland Sea (southwest of Osaka in Hyōgo Prefecture), most famous as the sea-coast setting for the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| takatoriyaki 高取焼 | ✓ | Takatori 高取 ware. Made in Chikuzen 筑前 Province (modern Fukuoka Prefecture) of northern Kyūshū 九州, the Takatori kilns were… |
Art History, Crafts |
| take-bashira 竹柱 | Lit. "bamboo post." One that has been squared off. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| take-no-fushi ranma 竹の節欄間 | ✓ | Also take-no-fushi 竹の節. Lit. "bamboo joint transom." A type of transom shaped like a balustrade which became… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| take tokusabei 竹木賊塀 | ✓ | Lit. "bamboo and horsetail tokusa 木賊 fence." |
Architecture, Gardens |
| takegaki 竹垣 | ✓ | Lit. "bamboo fence." A generic name for any kind of fence made with bamboo. Specific types include *… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| Takekawa 竹河 | ✓ | A pictorial subject taken from "Takekawa" ("Bamboo River"), Chapter 44 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of… |
Art History, Painting, Document |
| takekugi 竹釘 | A bamboo nail. Usually the nail is 7.5 mm square and made from giant bamboo madake 真竹 (also nigatake 苦竹).… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| takenaga bōsho 丈長奉書 | A long-sheet size of *hōsho 奉書 paper. Approximately 53 x 72 cm. The largest… |
Art History, Painting | |
| takerenji 竹連子 | ✓ | Bamboo or bamboo muntins that are used for windows in dwellings where a suggestion of rusticity is needed, or in tea… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| takeshōji 竹障子 | Paper-covered bamboo frames used as full-sized sliding doors *shōji 障子, or the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| takeyarai 竹矢来 | ✓ | Also written 竹柵. A roughly constructed bamboo fence with horizontal pieces placed close to the top, at the center, and at… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| takiguchi 焚口 | The stokehole or stokeholes in the side of a cooking range *kamado 竃. The… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| takigumi-ishi 滝組石 | Lit. "waterfall stone arrangement." A type of stone arrangement used for garden waterfalls. Also pronounced taki-… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| tako-e 凧絵 | Pictures on kites. It is thought that kite flying became popular in Japan in the 18th century, and the early designs for… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tako 蛸 | ✓ | A tool called a "punner" in English, used to pound down broken stones laid below the foundation of a building. It consists… |
Architecture, Tools |
| takudana 卓棚 | A set of decorative shelves used in an alcove. A single, high shelf with enclosed sliding doors is constructed slightly… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| Takuma-ha 宅磨派 | Also written 託磨派 and 宅間派. One of the schools of *ebusshi 絵仏師, priest-painters… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tama-ishi 玉石 | Lit. "round stone." A boulder about 15-30 cm across, which has been naturally rounded by a river or ocean waves. Often… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| tama-ishijiki 玉石敷 | ✓ | A type of paving using naturally rounded stones *tama-ishi 玉石, about 15-30 cm in diameter.… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| tamabuchi 玉縁 | Lit. "jewelled edge." |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Gardens | |
| tamagaki 玉垣 | ✓ | The generic term for a fence surrounding the square or rectangular space containing the main sanctuary *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| Tamakazura 玉鬘 | ✓ | A pictorial subject taken from "Tamakazura" ("The Jeweled Chaplet"), Chapter 22 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The… |
Art History, Painting, Document |
| Tamamushi no zushi 玉虫厨子 | The Tamamushi no zushi owned by Hōryūji 法隆寺 (mid-7th century) is also called the Beetle-wing Shrine, because of the… |
Architecture, Accessories | |
| tamen kōhi 多面広臂 | An image that has more heads, eyes, or limbs than the human figure. |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| tamen tahi 多面多臂 | Also *tamen kōhi 多面広臂. A Buddhist image with more heads, eyes, or limbs than… |
Architecture, Sculpture | |
| tamon 多聞 | Also termed tamon-zukuri 多聞造, tamon'yagura 多聞櫓 (many listen tower) and tamon nagaya 多聞長屋 (many… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| Tamonten 多聞天 | Also *Bishamonten 毘沙門天. Sk: Vaisravana. A fierce guardian deity believed to protect… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| tan 丹 | A yellowish-red pigment *ganryō 顔料 used in Oriental painting … |
Art History, Painting | |
| tan-e 淡絵 | A painting where the original ink lines show through after light pigment is added. The 11th-century Senzui byōbu … |
Art History, Painting | |
| tan'itsubari 単一梁 | A solid, single beam made from one timber. The term is used to differentiate it from a composite beam called gōseibari… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tana 棚 | Shelves. 1 A type of shelf, sometimes with a rack, of which there are many ordinary household… |
Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings | |
| tanamono 棚物 | A simplified portable shelf *daisu 台子 set on the host's mat *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| tanba-ishi 丹波石 | Lit. "Tanba stone." A type of granite from the Kameoka 亀岡 region, northwest of Kyoto. High in iron, it is used for pavements… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| tanba-yaki 丹波焼 | ✓ | Tanba 丹波 ware. Also called tachikui-yaki 立杭焼. One of the Six Old Kilns, a general name for a type of sueki… |
Art History, Crafts |
| tanben 単弁 | A decorative motif used on the roof of a Japanese building. It consisted of a series of single petals with one leaf seedling… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| tanben rengemon 単弁蓮華文 | ✓ | A stylized lotus flower motif with eight petals. Although it is a relatively simple arrangement, unlike the *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| tani 谷 | The valley or trough that forms when two sloping roofs meet. |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| tanigawara 谷瓦 | 1 A generic term for roof tiles used in the valley of a roof. Valleys are formed when the ridges of two… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| tanimendo 谷面戸 | Also called *mendo 面戸. The gap along both sides of the valley *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| tanjakumono 短尺物 | A timber shorter than the standard length. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tanjōbutsu 誕生仏 | Lit. "Buddha at birth." A sculptural representation of the historical Buddha *Shaka 釈迦… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| Tanka shōbutsu 丹霞焼仏 | Ch: Danxia shaofo. A painting subject which captures the Chan 禅 (Jp: Zen) parable of the monk Danxia (Jp: Tanka 丹霞… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tankei 単髻 | A single topknot. Hair tied on top of the head in a simple round topknot *hōkei… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| tankin 緞金 | Beating gold. Also called tanzō 緞造, uchimono 打物, tsuikin 鎚金 and kaji 鍛冶. A… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| tanpo たんぽ | A tool used in woodblock printmaking *ukiyo-e 浮世絵. A piece of wood, a flat… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tanrō 単廊 | A single corridor that is 182 cm wide, commonly found in temples. Some shrines have double corridors *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| tanrokubon 丹緑本 | Lit. "red and green books." Also called edoribon ゑどり本 or 絵取本 (colored books) during the Edo period. Early Edo… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tansai 淡彩 | An abbreviation of tansaiga 淡彩画 (light-colored painting). |
Art History, Painting | |
| Tansei jakubokushū 丹青若木集 | "Collection of Young Trees of Painting"; one-volume biography of Japanese painters by Kano Ikkei 狩野一渓 (1599-1662). Compiled… |
Art History, Painting, Document | |
| tansō 単倉 | A single-structure storehouse constructed of triangular timber or planks set in grid plan, *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tanzaku 短冊 | Small vertical poem cards, approximately 36 cm long x 6 cm wide that may be decorated with colored designs, sprinkled with… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tanzakuban 短冊判 | Lit. "poem-slip" *tanzaku 短冊 format. A size of *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| tanzakugata 短冊形 | Any long, rectangular-shaped object which is similar in size to a long, rectangular poem card called *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Tara Bosatsu 多羅菩薩 | A female form of *Kannon 観音 who appears as the mother of the Kannon section (Kannon'in… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| tarashikomi 溜込 | A painting technique in which pale black ink *sumi 墨 or a color (… |
Art History, Painting | |
| taru-no-kuchi 樽の口 | 1 An abbreviation of taru-no-kuchi kanamono 樽の口金物. Part of the metal cover *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| taruki 垂木 | Also written たるき. This is the simplest type of rafter, called common rafter or base rafter. It extends from the ridge *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| taruki kōzō 垂木構造 | Lit. "rafter construction." Also referred to as odachi toriigumi おだち鳥居組. One of the two principal types of assembly… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tarukibori 垂木彫 | An angled joint *shiguchi 仕口 used to insert rafters into a ridge *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tarukidake 垂木竹 | Bamboo rafters that span from the ridge *munagi 棟木 to the eave ends *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tarukigata 垂木形 | A board placed parallel to the rafters on a gable roof *kirizuma yane … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tarukikake 垂木掛 | Also read tarukigake. A horizontal timber attached to the posts of an exterior wall to support the undersides of… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tarukisaki gawara 垂木先瓦 | A rafter pendant tile. A small tile formed to fit the shape of the cut end of a rafter *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| tarukisaki kanamono 垂木先金物 | A decorative metal fitting *kazari kanagu 飾金具 fixed to the end of a… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| tarukiwari 垂木割 | ✓ | The various systems of placing rafters *taruki 垂木 in relation to the pillars *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tarumi 弛み | ✓ | The degree of curvature on a bargeboard *hafu 破風, or on a roof between the peak… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| tasōtō 多層塔 | ✓ | Also called tajūtō 多重塔. A generic term for pagodas that are from three to thirteen stories. An even number of… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| tassho 塔所 | Also read tōsho. The burial place for the remains of prominent Buddhist priests. Historically, the ashes of Buddha… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tasukebari 助梁 | Also called sukebari. A beam which stabilizes bottle struts *taiheizuka… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tasuki 襷 | ✓ | 1 Two interact lines, strings or rails diagonally forming a pattern of diamond shapes. Sometimes another… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| tasukigōshi 襷格子 | Also *hishigōshi 菱格子. A type of lattice *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| tasukimon 襷文 | ✓ | Also called *hishigōshi 菱格子. A design motif of crossed… |
Art History, Painting |
| tasukisan 襷桟 | Also tasukizan. Thin stips of timber san 桟 that intersect to form a criss-cross pattern or a zig-zag… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tasukizumi 襷墨 | ✓ | A diagonal line. A word applied to structural members used in the modular system kikujutsu 規矩術. Specifically, this… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| tatakidoi 敲土居 | A pounded earth embankment. It was made of layers of earth mixed with water, pounded down and allowed to harden. The wall… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| tatakinomi 叩鑿 | A striking chisel. The primary structural elements in Japanese wooden buildings are pillars and beams, and not supporting… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| tatami 畳 | A floor covering made of tightly woven grass and straw. A standard tatami is a rectangular mat about 1.82 m (≒6')… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tatami-no-me 畳の目 | The mesh or the number of meshes "wales" of a straw mat *tatami 畳. One "wale" is approximately… |
Architecture, Accessories | |
| tatamidoko 畳床 | A type of straw matted alcove in which either an ordinary *tatami mat is set on… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| tatamiyose 畳寄 | Also called *yosejikii 寄敷居. A small, horizontal wooden strip that is placed… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tatara 高殿 | Also written 鑪. The modern character is ro 鈩, and can mean furnace. Tatara is an ancient word meaning… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| tatchū 塔頭 | Also written 塔中. A simple building containing a pagoda that enshrined the ashes of a founder or head priest of a Zen 禅… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| tate 館 | Also read tachi. A small castle shiro 城 and/or a wealthy provincial residence *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| tate-ishi 竪石 | A dominating garden stone that is set in an upright position. The term appears first in the *… |
Architecture, Gardens |
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