| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| wachigaigawara 輪違瓦 | ✓ | Also tsumegawara 爪瓦. A row of narrow tile pieces cut crosswise from semi-cylindrical tiles *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| wajō 倭城 | A Japanese castle. Refers to 25 castles constructed in various regions of Korea by the Japanese forces during the Bunroku-… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| wakaba 若葉 | ✓ | 1 An abstract decorative pattern of extended curved lines based on the form of a leaf. The pattern is… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| wakamiya shinzō 若宮神像 | Lit. "Shinto image of a young prince." A generic term covering both images of a divine son of the main enshrined Shinto… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| Wakamurasaki 若紫 | ✓ | Lit. "young lavender." A pictorial subject based on "Wakamurasaki" ("Lavender"), Chapter 5 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語… |
Art History, Painting, Document |
| Wakana 若菜 | ✓ | A pictorial subject taken from "Wakana" ("New Herbs"), which is divided into two parts, making up Chapters 34 and 35 of … |
Art History, Painting, Document |
| wakaonna 若女 | Young girl. A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a young woman. The mature… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| wakaotoko 若男 | Young man. A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a young commoner with… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| wakiagari 脇上 | ✓ | The wakiagari allowed visitors to enter or leave the residence from a waiting palanquin kago 駕篭 without… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings |
| wakidana 脇棚 | ✓ | Shelves forming part of an arrangement in the space next to the decorative alcove *… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings |
| wakido 脇戸 | ✓ | A small door, usually beside the main door of a structure. Sometimes there is one on each side of the main door. |
Architecture, General Terms |
| wakiganna 脇鉋 | A plane used to smooth the sides of a groove, particularly in a doorsill or lintel, after the base plane, *… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| wakigegyo 脇懸魚 | Lit. "side gable pendant." Also *kudarigegyo 降懸魚, *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| wakihonjin 脇本陣 | A secondary *honjin 本陣, authorized by the Tokugawa 徳川 government for the… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| wakijin 脇陣 | Side sanctuary. Areas beside the main hall *hondō 本堂 of a Buddhist… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| wakikoguchi 脇虎口 | A side entrance to a castle. A small, inconspicuous entrance located on the side of a castle, in contrast with the main gate… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| wakikokabe 脇小壁 | A long, narrow, vertical wall constructed between two or more pillars, or on each side of an entrance or a window. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| wakimon 脇門 | Also read *ekimon 掖門. A side gate or a small gate on one or both sides of a… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| wakishōji 脇障子 | Wooden screens placed at the back ends of side verandas *en 縁. They… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| wakizura 脇面 | The left and right sides of a purlin *keta 桁. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| waku 枠 | A frame constructed around the perimeter of a window or doorway; the opening into which sliding panels and other structural… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| wakugi 和釘 | Also called nihon kugi 日本釘. A square nail used during and after the Kofun period. The nail was made of hand-wrought… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| wakuhijiki 枠肘木 | Two bracket arms *hijiki 肘木 positioned at right angle to one… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| wakyō 和鏡 | Japanese style mirrors. Wakyō were developed as part of toilet sets in the Heian period. Previously large and… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| wamono 和物 | Lit. "Japanese things." A term used in *chanoyu 茶湯 in… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| wanagi hozo 輪薙ほぞ | A tenon referred to as channeled or as fingered. It is used on king posts *shinzuka… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| wanagikomi 輪薙込 | Wanagikomi is an angle joint, also called an open mortise and tenon joint, a slip slot or finger mortise. It… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| wansen 腕釧 | A wristlet. A decorative ring *kansen 鐶釧 found on the wrists of… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| warabidegata 蕨手形 | Short for warabidegata suihotsu 蕨手形垂髪. Strands of hair *suihotsu… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| warabidemon 蕨手文 | ✓ | Also warabimon 蕨文. A design pattern which represents the bracken fern in spring when it gives out curling shoots.… |
Art History, Painting |
| warabite 蕨手 | ✓ | Also warabide. A style of ornamentation which features a curved design based on curling bracken shoots. It is found… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| warafude 藁筆 | Stiff brushes made of beaten straw. Warafude were popular with the *Kano-ha… |
Art History, Painting | |
| waraijō 笑尉 | Lit. "laughing old man." A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| waranawa 藁縄 | 1 Rope made by twisting together strands of straw. In clay statuary, the central wooden core *… |
Art History, General Terms, Architecture, Sculpture | |
| waraza 藁座 | ✓ | 1 Also called enza, maruza 円座, or ukeza kanamono 受座金物. The metal or… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| waridakebari 割竹張 | To cover or enclose with split bamboo. For example, found on the doors of a simple garden gate teimon 庭門 with a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| wariguri-ishi 割栗石 | Also called wariguri 割栗, kuri-ishi 栗石 or guri ぐり (lit. "stones crushed like chestnuts"). Rock… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| warihada 割肌 | The surface of a member that was split vertically by pounding in a wedge *kusabi… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| warihagi 割矧 | A sculpture technique used to carve a large hollow space *uchiguri… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| warihaiden 割拝殿 | ✓ | Lit. "divided worship hall." A long structure under a single roof divided in the center by a passageway *… |
Architecture, Shrines |
| warikebiki 割毛引 | Lit. "splitting gauge." The splitting gauge is used to mark thin pieces of wood along the grain so that it can be broken… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| warikubi 割首 | A wood statue technique used to join the head and body at the neck. The head and body of a Buddha statue are carved from a… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| warikusabi 割楔 | 1 An extremely strong joint that uses a blind wedge-split tenon warikusabi hozo 割楔ほぞ to join two… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| warima 割間 | The interval between the vertical slats *tateko 竪子 and horizontal… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| washi 和紙 | Handmade Japanese paper made from long natural fibers. Most commonly used fibers include mulberry kōzo 楮 (see *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| washibana akujō 鷲鼻悪尉 | Eagle-nosed fierce old man. A Noh mask *nōmen 能面, representing a… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| wata-ita 綿板 | Also called *ireko-ita 入子板. A board that connects the rails and crosspieces… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| watabana 綿花 | Also written 綿鼻. A molding *kurigata 繰形 in the shape of a silk-… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| watari yagura 渡櫓 | ✓ | 1 A connecting gallery or tower inside a square compound *masugata… |
Architecture, Castles |
| watariago 渡腮 | Also called *agokaki 腮欠, agokake 腮掛. A cogged right-angled joint… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| wayō 和様 | 1 Lit. "Japanese style architecture." The architectural techniques and styles introduced from China during… |
Architecture, General Terms, Art History | |
| wayō hijiki 和様肘木 | ✓ | A bracket arm *hijiki 肘木 that is characterized by curved surfaces on the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| wayō kōran 和様高欄 | ✓ | A railing in the wayō style *wayō 和様. The horizontal… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| zahō 坐法 | Also referred to as zasei 坐勢 (Sk: asana). A seated position for a Buddhist image. Ancient Indian ascetics used… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| zaimoku 材木 | Timber prepared for construction. | Architecture, General Terms | |
| zakanshiki teien 座観式庭園 | Lit. "seated appreciation style garden." A modern term designating gardens meant to be seen or "appreciated" from a fixed… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| zakkeshitsu-in 雑華室印 | A collector's seal, kanzō-in 鑑蔵印, which was impressed on Song and Yuan dynasties paintings *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Zaō Gongen 蔵王権現 | Also Kongō Zaō Bosatsu 金剛蔵王菩薩. The deity of Kinpusen 金峰山 in Nara, one of the most important deities of the Japanese… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| Zashiki hakkei 座敷八景 | Lit. "Eight parlor views"; a parody of eight views *hakkei 八景, in which… |
Art History, Painting | |
| zashiki kazari 座敷飾 | The *zashiki 座敷 is a guest room; its name deriving from that of the mat… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| zashiki 座敷 | ✓ | A generic term for a room covered with straw mats *tatami 畳. In the Heian… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings |
| zashikigura 座敷蔵 | A two-story fireproof structure of the storehouse type *dozō 土蔵 that… |
Architecture, Storehouses | |
| zazen-ishi 座禅石 | Lit. "stone for seated meditation." A large, flat-topped stone which is used for, or thought to be appropriate for… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| zazō 坐像 | A Buddhist image which is seated, as opposed to standing *ryūzō 立像. The… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| zen'a-in 善阿印 | Gourd-shaped shumon 朱文 style seal introduced into Japan from China during the Song and Yuan dynasties. Today there… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Zen'e zu 禅会図 | Lit. "paintings of Zen 禅 meetings." Paintings that depict a philosophical dialogue between a Zen priest and a layman,… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Zen'inshiki no niwa 禅院式の庭 | Lit. "Zen 禅 temple style gardens." A modern term designating the various types of gardens associated with Zen sect temples… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| Zen-pa 善派 | A school of Buddhist sculptors *bussho 仏所, who often used the character 'Zen' 善… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Zendō 禅堂 | ✓ | Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Zendō 善導 | Commonly known as Zendō Daishi 善導大師 (Ch: Shandao Dashi, 613-81) or Great Master Zendō . The third patriarch of Pure… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| Zendōjigata tōrō 善導寺形灯籠 | Type of lantern found in the garden of Zendōji 善導寺, Kyoto. Six semi-spherical swellings surround the base and have been… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| Zenga 禅画 | Lit. "Zen 禅 (Ch: Chan) painting." A modern and somewhat ambiguous term often used to indicate painting and calligraphy that… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Zengetsuyō rakan 禅月様羅漢 | Ch: Chanyueyang Luohan. A type of ink painting of arhats or *rakan 羅漢… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| zengo hagi-awase 前後矧合 | Also abbreviated to zengohagi 前後矧. A method of making a wooden statue where the statue is carved in two separate… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| zenigata byōbu 銭形屏風 | An early type of folding screen *byōbu 屏風, in which panels are individually made… |
Art History, Painting | |
| zenigata mizubachi 銭形水鉢 | Lit. "coin shape water basin." A type of round water basins *chōzubachi 手水鉢… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| zenjō-in 禅定印 | Lit. "meditation mudra." A mudra or hand gesture *in 印, formed by placing the palms… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| zenki-zu 禅機図 | Lit. "paintings of Zen 禅 (Ch: Chan) occasions." Illustrations of acts (including dialogues) which led to enlightenment. The… |
Art History, Painting | |
| zenkishiki karesansui 前期式枯山水 | Lit. "early style dry landscape." The Heian period arrangement of stones in areas with neither a pond nor stream. The 11th-… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| Zenkōji shiki Amida sanzon 善光寺式阿弥陀三尊 | Images of the *Amida 阿弥陀 trinity made in the style of the Amida trinity at Zenkōji 善光寺 in… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| zenmon 前門 | An especially impressive front gate or entry. Examples are *hirakaramon… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| Zenmyōshin 善妙神 | Also known as Zenmyō nyoshin 善妙女神. A deity that protects the Kegon 華厳 sect of Buddhism. According to the legend, a… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| Zennyo Ryūō 善女竜王 | Lit. "Dragon King Zennyo." The subject of a painting by one of the disciples of *Kūkai 空海… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| zenpai 前拝 | Old name kizahashi 階 means steps (see *hashi 階). The front steps… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| zenshi 全紙 | Lit. "full-size paper." Paper having the same size as that produced in the factory. The size varied according to each period… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Zenshitsu 禅室 | Sometimes an alternative *Zendō 禅堂. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Zenshū bijutsu 禅宗美術 | The general term used for any art related to the practice of Zen 禅 Buddhism in Japan. Zen flourished in Japan in the… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| Zenshū soshizō 禅宗祖師像 | Lit. "images of patriarchs of Zen 禅 sects." Paintings of Zen patriarchs. Although all schools of Buddhism create images of… |
Art History, Painting | |
| zenshūyō 禅宗様 | A style of architecture imported from China during the Song dynasty. It includes the architectural elements that came with… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Zenshūyō kōran 禅宗様高欄 | ✓ | Also called Karayō kōran 唐様高欄. A railing or balustrade *kōran 高欄 with… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| Zenshūyō tokyō 禅宗様斗きょう | ✓ | Also called Karayō tokyō 唐様斗きょう. A Zen style bracket complex. The bracket arms *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| zentei 前庭 | Lit. "front garden." A general term referring to the garden in front of a building. In contrast to the main garden which is… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| zetsu 舌 | ✓ | Lit. "tongue." A thin ornamental molding *kurigata 繰形, carved on the bottom… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| zō-onna 増女 | A Noh mask *nōmen 能面, representing a young angel, goddess or enlightened woman.… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Zō Tōdaiji Zōbussho 造東大寺造仏所 | Also Tōdaiji Zōbussho 東大寺造仏所. A workshop which made statues for Tōdaiji 東大寺 in Nara. In 748, the government set up a… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| zōbana 象鼻 | ✓ | Also read zōhana. A beam projection or nosing *kibana 木鼻, molded or… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| zōbussho 造仏所 | Government-run workshops making Buddhist statues during the Nara period. Post-9th-century independent and temple-run… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Zōchōten 増長天 | Sk: Virudhaka. A fierce-looking guardian deity *funnusō 忿怒相, believed to… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| zōgan 象嵌 | Inlay. It is also written 象眼 (elephant eye). A decoration technique in which the surface of such materials as metal, pottery… |
Art History, Crafts | |
| zōkinzuri 雑巾摺 | ✓ | Also called hōkizuri 掃摺 or zōkindome 雑巾留. A long thin finishing board, similar to a base board, that is… |
Architecture, General Terms |
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