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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…

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
yakan 野干

A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a small Chinese fox. Its thin-lipped, slightly…

Art History, Sculpture
yakuko 薬壷

A medicine jar, found on the palm of the left hand in figures of *Yakushi 薬師, the…

Art History, Sculpture
Yakushi keka 薬師悔過

Keka 悔過 is a term used in Buddhism meaning repentance of one's sins, and refers to the chanting of prayers to…

Art History, Sculpture
Yamauba 山姥

Also read Yamanba. Oni-onna 鬼女 (demonic woman) or yama-onna 山女 (mountain woman) are used occasionally.…

Art History, Painting, Sculpture
yase-onna 痩女

A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing the suffering spirit of a woman who dies from…

Art History, Sculpture
yase-otoko 痩男

Emaciated man. Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a ghost suffering in hell. Lean…

Art History, Sculpture
yogan-in 与願印

Lit. "wish-granting mudra (Sk: varada mudra)"; also segan-in 施願印. A mudra or hand gesture *…

Art History, Sculpture
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
Yorimasa 頼政

A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a 12th-century warrior-poet of the Seiwa Genji…

Art History, Sculpture
yoroboshi 弱法師

Priest with faltering step. A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a blind young boy…

Art History, Sculpture
yoseki-zukuri 寄木造

Also read yosegi zukuri. Formerly called kiyose zukuri 木寄造 or yoseai zukuri 寄合造. Antomym of *…

Art History, Sculpture
yūgeza 遊戯坐 ✓

Also read yūgiza (Sk: lalitasana). A seated position for a Buddhist image, usually a bodhisattva *…

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