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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
hishigōshi 菱格子 ✓

1  Diamond- or lozenge-shaped lattice or muntins used on doors, transoms, and fences *…

Art History, Architecture, General Terms, Painting
kasumi 霞 ✓

1 A pattern representing mist, often stylized into shapes like the ideographs 工 or 王. It is used as a…

Architecture, General Terms, Art History, Painting
mikaeshi 見返

1 A surface of a Japanese architectural component that faces front.

2 Endpaper,…

Art History, Architecture, General Terms, Painting
uwanuri 上塗り

1 Also shiagenuri 仕上げ塗. The final layer applied to a decorative painting sōshoku kōji…

Art History, Architecture, General Terms, 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