| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| raden 螺鈿 | 1 A shell, especially mother-of-pearl, inlay technique commonly used for lacquer ware *… |
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| rakuyaki 楽焼 | ✓ | Raku 楽 ware. A light weight ceramic ware developed in Kyoto in the Momoyama period and particularly prized in the… |
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| rantai shikki 籃胎漆器 | The technique whereby bamboo strips are woven into shapes and coated with lacquer. Also called kagoji 籠地 (basket… |
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| ruri 瑠璃 | Lapis lazuli. Vaidurya in Sanskrit. Originally it meant lapis lazuli or emerald, but from the Six Dynasties period Chinese… |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| tankin 緞金 | Beating gold. Also called tanzō 緞造, uchimono 打物, tsuikin 鎚金 and kaji 鍛冶. A… |
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| tebako 手箱 | Lit. "hand box." Introduced from China as a comb box before the Heian period, they were popular with court women through the… |
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| tenmoku jawan 天目茶碗 | ✓ | Chinese Tianmu tea bowls. Black-glazed stoneware bowls, with a conical shape, small foot and thin walls, divided into types… |
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| tenmokudai 天目台 | A stand for a *tenmoku jawan 天目茶碗. Tenmoku 天目 stands were imported from China… |
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| tenmokuyū 天目釉 | A black glaze used on straight-sided conical teabowls known as tenmoku ware *tenmoku… |
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| tōcha 闘茶 | Tea contest. Competitive parties featuring taste and classification of tea developed by Heian period aristocrats and wildly… |
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| tokoname-yaki 常滑焼 | Tokoname 常滑 ware. A rugged, reddish brown stoneware produced from the 11th century in and around the town of Tokoname in… |
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| tōsei kabuto 当世兜 | Also written 当世冑. Contemporary helmet. A type of Japanese helmet based on southern barbarian *… |
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| tsuba 鐔 | Also written 鍔. Sword guard. Tsuba protect the hand and balance the sword. In the Edo period when samurai… |
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| tsujigahanazome 辻が花染 | Lit. "flowers at the crossing dyeing." A Muromachi period hybrid, decorative textile technique of combining tie-dyeing and… |
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