| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 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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