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oi 笈

A square wooden box with four legs carried as a backpack by mountain ascetic priests, yamabushi 山伏. The interior of…

Art History, Iconography
wakamiya shinzō 若宮神像

Lit. "Shinto image of a young prince." A generic term covering both images of a divine son of the main enshrined Shinto…

Art History, Iconography

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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