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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
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
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
warafude 藁筆

Stiff brushes made of beaten straw. Warafude were popular with the *Kano-ha…

Art History, Painting
washi 和紙

Handmade Japanese paper made from long natural fibers. Most commonly used fibers include mulberry kōzo 楮 (see *…

Art History, Painting

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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