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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."
1 A pendant *gatō 瓦当, found on semi-…

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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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