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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
oigata mon'yō 笈形文様

A pattern drawn on a wall on both sides of a type of post called *kentozuka…

Architecture, Decorations
okkake manji 追掛万字 ✓

A pattern *mon'yō 文様, or mullion *kumiko…

Architecture, Decorations
okurimanji 送り万字

A type of design pattern *mon'yō 文様 or mullion *…

Architecture, Decorations
omogegyo 本懸魚

Lit. "main gable pendant." Also written 主懸魚, ogamigegyo 拝懸魚. A decorative gable pendant *…

Architecture, Decorations
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
ukebana 受花 ✓

Also written 請花, 受華, 請華; sometimes pronounced ukehana. Flower-shaped support. A support in the shape of an open,…

Architecture, Sculpture, Decorations, Art History
umebachi gegyo 梅鉢懸魚 ✓

A gable pendant *gegyo 懸魚 with an irregular hexagonal shape. The…

Architecture, Decorations
ungenberi 繧繝縁

A decorated cloth binding used for the border of a straw mat *tatami 畳…

Architecture, Decorations
unkimon 雲気文

1 Chinese: yunqiwen.
An ancient Chinese decorative design formed from C and S shapes. It is…

Architecture, Painting, Decorations, Art History
unmonchiku 雲紋竹

Also hanchiku 班竹, madaradake まだらだけ, buchidake ぶちだけ, tanbahanchiku タンバハンチク, …

Architecture, Decorations
unokedōshi 兎毛通

Lit. "rabbit-fur cover." Also *karahafu gegyo 唐破風懸魚. 

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Architecture, Decorations
uzumaki 渦巻

Also uzumakimon 渦巻文, uzugata 渦形, volute, scroll. A decorative spiral pattern found throughout the world on…

Architecture, Decorations
uzuwakaba 渦若葉

Lit. "curly young leaf."
A decorative pattern resembling leaves with curved tips. It has been used on ornamental roof…

Architecture, Decorations

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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