| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| rahotsu 螺髪 | Spiral shaped curls of hair, like snail-shells, on the head of a *nyorai… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| raigō-in 来迎印 | Lit. "welcoming mudra." A mudra or hand gesture *in 印 in which the forefinger,… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| ramō 羅網 | A net-like ornament strung with jewels or precious metals and hung from the canopy *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| renben 蓮弁 | Lit. "lotus petal." |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Art History, Sculpture | |
| rengeza 蓮華座 | ✓ | Also renza 蓮座. Lit. "Lotus base" (Sk: padmasana). A dais for a Buddhist image *… |
Art History, Sculpture |
| renniku 蓮肉 | The central section of a lotus flower pedestal *rengeza 蓮華座 on which a Buddhist image usually… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| renpashiki emon 漣波式衣文 | A manner of representing drapery folds in Buddhist sculpture. It consists of either 1) a high… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Rikishi 力士 | ✓ | Ch: Lishi. A gigaku mask *gigakumen 伎楽面… |
Art History, Sculpture |
| Rin Nasei 林和靖 | Ch: Lin Hejing (967-1028). A noted poet, calligrapher and scholar of the Northern Song dynasty. Rin Nasei's real name was… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| rinkō 輪光 | A type of halo *kōhai 光背 used on Buddhist images, forming a free-… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| rinnōza 輪王坐 | ✓ | The royal ease position (Sk: Maharajalilasana). A seated position used for a Buddhist image with one knee (usually… |
Art History, Sculpture |
| rōgata 蝋型 | Also rōgata chūzō 蝋型鋳造, rōgata imono 蝋型鋳物. A method of metal casting known as the lost-wax… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| rōjo 老女 | A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing the aged, yet beautiful face of… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Rokujō madenokōji bussho 六条万里小路仏所 | A Buddhist sculpture workshop *bussho 仏所, active from the 11th-14th century and… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| ryō-onna 霊女 | A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing the suffering spirit of a woman… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Ryōō 陵王 | Also Raryōō 羅陵王, Ranryōō 蘭陵王 (King Lanling), and Ryūō 龍王 (Dragon King, see *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| ryūzō 立像 | Also read ritsuzō. A Buddhist image which is standing, as opposed to seated (see *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| uchiguri 内刳 | A technique used to hollow out the interior of a wooden statue. The hollow produced is also called uchiguri.… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| uetsuke 植付け | Lit. "planting." A technique used to make wooden statues, where the hair and beard are made separately, and then attached to… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| 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 |
| ukibori 浮彫 | Formerly known as hanshutsuzō 半出像. A relief, or a method used to carve a relief on a flat surface. Halfway… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| ushitsunisha 烏瑟に沙 | See *nikkei 肉髻. A hemispherical protuberance emerging from the head of a… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| usobuki 空吹 | Also usofuki, sometimes written 嘯吹. Lit. "bluffer or whistler"; a humorous mask used in kyōgen 狂言 plays.… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| usunikubori 薄肉彫 | Also asanikubori 浅肉彫, asaukibori 浅浮彫, teiukibori 低浮彫, usuukibori 薄浮彫. A type of… |
Art History, Sculpture |
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