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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
yatsushi torikabuto 省鳥兜

A type of decorated beam *kibana 木鼻 which is a simplified version of Japanese…

Architecture, Decorations
yōraku 瓔珞

1 A string of beads or lacework used to decorate Buddhist statues and objects. Often found on Bodhisattva…

Art History, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorations
yu-engata 油煙形 ✓

Also kōmorigata 蝙蝠形. A decorative pattern similar to the shapes found on a foliate-panel, shape *…

Architecture, Decorations
yuiwata gegyo 結綿懸魚 ✓

A type of gable pendant *gegyo 懸魚, decorated with a sculpture resembling a floss…

Architecture, Decorations
yuiwata 結綿 ✓

1 Also *watabana 綿花, *…

Architecture, Decorations
yuiwatagashira 結綿頭

Also gyakurengashira 逆蓮頭. A type of carved decoration found on the tops of newel posts *…

Architecture, Decorations
yumimayu 弓眉 ✓

A type of carved molding found on the lower edges of rainbow beams *kōryō …

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