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sanjū-no-tō 三重塔

Three-storied pagodas, most of which are made of wood, but a small percentage are made of stone. See *…

Architecture, Buildings, Sculpture
saru 猿 ✓

1 Monkey. The monkey is represented in kyōgen 狂言 by a masked and costumed figure. The monkey mask…

Sculpture, Art History, Architecture, General Terms
shikoro 錣

1 A generic term for a roof line that has a broken plane, the parts of which run in the same direction. A…

Architecture, General Terms, Art History, Sculpture
shishiguchi 獅子口

1 Lit. "lion-mouth tile." An ornamental tile placed on each end of a main ridge, instead of the more common…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Art History, Sculpture
shūjōroku 周丈六

A measure of height for a Buddhist statue based on shūjaku 周尺, a unit of measure used in Zhou dynasty China (1 …

Sculpture, Art History, Architecture, Measurement

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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