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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

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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