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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

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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