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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
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
yūyaku 釉薬

Also yū 釉 or uwagusuri. Glaze. In the heat of firing, clay particles vitrify to form a glass matter…

Art History, Crafts
yūzen-zome 友禅染

Yūzen style dyeing. A form of paste-resist dyeing with beautiful colors and pictorial designs named after the Kyoto…

Art History, Crafts

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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