| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| hibukuro-zukuri 火袋造 | A style of living room *chanoma 茶の間, found particularly in the taverns *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| hibutsu 秘仏 | Lit. secret Buddha. A Buddhist image which is ordinarily kept secret. Hibutsu are enshrined in miniature shrines *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hidasukimon 火襷文 | ✓ | Fire-cord design. A decoration used on ceramics. While appearing accidental, this is a method created by the special… |
Art History, Crafts |
| hide 碑伝 | Markers set at intervals along a mountain trail by ascetic monks called yamabushi 山伏 or shugenja 修験者. Many… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hidensho 秘伝書 | Lit. secret hereditary writings. A manual which describes carpentry techniques developed by the master carpenters… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| Hie Sannō matsuri 日吉山王祭 | Also known as Hie 日吉 (can be read Hiyoshi) matsuri 祭 or Sannō matsuri 山王祭. A pictorial… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hie-zukuri 日吉造 | Also called shōtei-zukuri or shōtai-zukuri 聖帝造 or sannō-zukuri 山王造. A unique style of shrine… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| hien daruki 飛檐垂木 | ✓ | Also called konoki daruki 小軒垂木. A flying rafter. A short rafter attached to the base rafter *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hien sumigi 飛檐隅木 | Lit. a flying corner rafter. A flying hip rafter. A short rafter that has the same function as a flying rafter *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| higaki 檜垣 | Lit. Cypress fence. A type of fence in which the bark of the Japanese cypress, hinoki 檜, is braided into a net pattern or… | Architecture, Gardens | |
| higaki-onna 桧垣女 | Two noh masks *nōmen 能面 used one in the first and the other in the second act of… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Higashimuro 東室 | ✓ | The east dormitory for Buddhist priests at Hōryūji 法隆寺 in Nara. It is located in the west precinct Saiin 西院, and has nine,… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| Higashiyama bunka 東山文化 | Lit. east mountain culture. The culture of the middle Muromachi period *… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| higuchi 灯口 | Also 火口. Openings around the flame holder *hibukuro 火袋 of a lantern… |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| hijiki 肘木 | A common name for the bracket arm which forms part of the bearing block and bracket complex, structural elements which… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hijirimado 聖窓 | ✓ | A box-shaped, latticed window that often extended, demado 出窓, out from a building and was constructed at about… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hikae-bashira 控柱 | Also called tsukkaibashira 突支柱, hikaetori 控取, sasaebashira also read *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hikaebei 控塀 | Any upright pole or post which forms the inner core of an earthen wall with a tiled and gabled roof. One example is found… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hikaegui 控杭 | Any upright pole or post added to the inside of a castle wall for extra support. While hikaegui increased the strength of… | Architecture, Castles | |
| hikichigai 挽違 | The act of sawing square or rectangular timbers on the diagonal to produce two trapezoidal shapes. The timbers themselves… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hikichigai 引違 | ✓ | Also hikichigaido 引違戸. Doors that have two or more translucent screens *shōji… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hikidake 引竹 | Transverse finishing bamboo attached to a sleeve wall *sodekabe 袖壁. It is… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hikido 引戸 | A generic term for doors or windows which slide horizontally on sill and head jamb tracks. Some open on both sides and move… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hikifuda 引札 | A woodblock printed advertisement used to announce a store, publicize a product, or advertise a new publication. In the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hikihashi 引橋 | 1 Lit. a pull bridge. A type bridge that can be pulled into a castle. One such example is the … |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hikimawashi-noko 挽廻鋸 | A coping saw. A saw used to cut curves in wood. The blade is very narrow so as to allow free movement when cutting. It… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| hikime kagihana 引目鉤鼻 | Also read hikime kagibana and written 引目鈎鼻. Lit. slit eyes, hooked nose. A technique used to draw faces of the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hikite 引手 | ✓ | Lit. hand pull. Commonly called door pull. A door pull added to sliding doors *fusuma… |
Architecture, Accessories |
| hikiwakedo 引分戸 | Also called ryōbikido 両引戸. Two sliding doors that occupy a single track. When closed, the doors come together in… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hikiwatashi kōbai 引渡勾配 | ✓ | A hypotenuse. A mathematically computed straight line stretching from the peak of the ridge to the eave-end and used to help… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| himashun 披麻皴 | Lit. hemp-fiber texture stroke; a type of brushstroke, so called because it resembles a loose hemp thread. A texture brush… |
Art History, Painting | |
| himorogi 神籬 | 1 A single sacred pillar standing independently. Its origin as well as its true significance is not clear… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| himuroike 氷室池 | Lit. icehouse pond. A functional type of garden pond used in the winter for cutting ice. In case like the himuroike… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hinagata 雛型 | 1 Also mokei 模型. A miniature or a scaled-down model of a planned work of art. It is usually… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hinagatabon 雛形本 | Also pronounced hiinagata bon. Lit. miniature stamped book. A small-sized woodblock printed book produced during… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hinerito 拈斗 | Hineri means to twist, turn, back, or roll. Also written 捻斗; also called onisarato 鬼皿斗. A square or… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hinuki 飛貫 | Also written 樋貫.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| hippō 筆法 | The manor of using a painting brush in Eastern art and calligraphy. Brush use technique was first mentioned by Xie He (Jp:… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hira-ishi 平石 | Also tsuki-ishi 築石. Broad, flat construction stones used to build the main sections of stone walls *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hira karakusagawara 平唐草瓦 | Also called hira karakusa 平唐草. A broad concave eave-end tile *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| hira kudarimune 平降棟 | Also called hira kudari 平降 or *kudarimune 降棟. Descending ridges at… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hira 平 | The sides of a building which are parallel to the ridge. Usually the long sides of a building at a right angle to the gable… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| hirabashi 平橋 | A flat bridge made of wood, wood and sods, or stone. |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hirabuchi tenjō 平縁天井 | A simple ceiling made of boards and battens. The battens are thin and rectangular in section and are placed at right angles… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hiradana 平棚 | A plain, flat shelf board used in an alcove *tokonoma 床の間 or as a desk; one type is… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| hiraganna 平鉋 | ✓ | A smoothing plane. The hiraganna is used for smoothly planing the surface of a board or pillar. Of the many types… |
Architecture, Tools |
| hiragawara 平瓦 | ✓ | Also called *megawara 女瓦 (female tile). One of the basic… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| hirageta 平桁 | A light, horizontal, rectangular member that is inserted into the corner post between the top and bottom rails of a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hirahashi 平橋 | Lit. flat bridge. A simple kind of garden bridge made with flat wooden boards. In its simplest form, a hirahashi may… | Architecture, Gardens | |
| hirahijiki 平肘木 | A bracket arm placed parallel to or at right angles to the direction of a roof ridge *… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| hirahozo 平ほぞ | ✓ | A true, square or rectangular tenon cut from a single block of wood. The top of the uncut part of the block forms the square… |
Architecture, Joints |
| hirairi 平入 | ✓ | The entrance to a building constructed parallel to the ridge *mune 棟 of the roof… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hirairi-zukuri 平入造 | Also called *hirairi 平入. A style of building that has the main… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hirajiro 平城 | Lit. flatland castle. A castle built on a plain with the main defensive elements being rivers, swamps, and man-made moats.… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hirakaramon 平唐門 | ✓ | Also *karamon 唐門. A gate characterized by undulating bargeboards *… |
Architecture, Gates |
| hiraki 開 | Also called funbari 踏張.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| hirakido 開戸 | ✓ | Also shortened to *hiraki 開. A generic term for doors *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hirakimado 開窓 | A translucent paper-covered casement window that opens by means of hinges like a hinged door. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hirakishōji 開障子 | A translucent paper-covered frame attached to a door jam by a socket hinge hijitsubo 肘壷 or chōtsugai 蝶番,… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hirakōbai 平勾配 | The pitch of a roof on the sides parallel to the ridge. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hiramitsudo 平三斗 | ✓ | Also called *mitsudo tokyō 三斗斗きょう. A 3-on-1, non-projecting bracket… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hiramon 平門 | Also read hirakado. A simple gate set between two posts. The gate may have a very low pitched roof covered either with… | Architecture, Gates | |
| hiranuri 平塗 | A technique used to apply color evenly over an underpainting, without regard for lines. If the overcoat is opaque the under… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hirasanjō 平三畳 | ✓ | Also hirasanjō-no-seki 平三畳席. A three-mat tea ceremony room *chashitsu… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| hirashoiin 平書院 | One type of window used in a shoin style room *shoin-zukuri 書院造.… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| hirasode kakugawara 平袖角瓦 | ✓ | Also sekigai sodekakugawara 積蓋袖角瓦. Lit. stacked, broad-sleeved angular cover tiles. The broad, concave pendant… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| hirasodegawara 平袖瓦 | ✓ | Also sekigai sodegawara 積蓋袖瓦. A broad, rectangular type of concave roof tile *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| hiratōba 平塔婆 | A small, flat, wooden grave tablet placed so that it leans against a grave stone. It may have the name of the deceased… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| hiratokyō 平斗きょう | Also called *hirazonae 平備. A bracket complex *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hirawari 平割 | ✓ | Logs sawn or ripped into rectangular lengths along the grain. |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hiraya 平家 | A house with only one story. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| hirayamajiro 平山城 | Also read hirasanjiro. Lit. flatland mountain castle. A castle built on a low mountain, defined as 20 to 100 m high… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hirazonae 平備 | Also written 平具, and read hirasonae; also called *hiratokyō … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hirazuka 平束 | A short strut, post, or prop which has the same width from bottom to top. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hire 鰭 | ✓ | Lit. fins. A decorative sculpted form found, for example, on the left and right of a gable pendant *… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| hiregawara 鰭瓦 | Lit. fish tile. The lower parts of ogre tiles *onigawara 鬼瓦 which extend… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| hirejō tenne 鰭状天衣 | Also hiregata tenne 鰭形天衣. Lit. fin-shaped heavenly scarf. A long, ornamental scarf (see *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| hiro-en 広縁 | A generic term for a deep veranda.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| hirobisashi 広廂 | Also written 広庇, 弘廂. Sometimes called *hiro-en 広縁. An extended… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hirokomai 広小舞 | ✓ | A long, wide, wedge-shaped, horizontal timber placed over the ends of rafters to prevent their deflection and to add support… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hiroma 広間 | 1 The generic term used for a large room occupying the full cross section of a building in Edo period… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings | |
| hiromagata 広間型 | The name given to a room plan common in vernacular houses *minka … |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| hironomi 広鑿 | Lit. wide chisel. A type of striking chisel *tatakinomi 叩鑿, with a blade-… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| hiroshiki 広敷 | 1 Part of the kitchen and private residential zone of an Edo period daimyō 大名 residence. … |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| hirukan 蛭環 | ✓ | Also hirukagi 蛭鈎 or hirukugi 蛭釘. Lit. leech hook. A pothook attached to the ceiling of the tea ceremony… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| hisakugata 柄杓形 | Lit. ladle shape. Also read hishakugata or hisagogata 瓢形 (gourd pattern). The shape of the precious jewel… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hisashi 廂 | Also written 庇. The area surrounding the *moya 母屋 or core of a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hisashibashira 廂柱 | Also written 庇柱.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| hisen 臂釧 | A type of decorative band *kansen 鐶釧, found on the upper arms of bodhisattva *… | Art History, Sculpture | |
| hishaku 柄杓 | 1 A utensil with a long handle and dipper used to ladle hot water from the kettle, or cold water from the… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| hishaku kanamono 柄杓金物 | A metal fitting that allows a door to swing open in two directions. The fitting is shaped like a dipper, whereby the "… | Architecture, General Terms | |
| hishi 菱 | 1 Also hishigata 菱形. A diamond or lozenge shape. A term used to describe diamond-shaped cross… |
Art History, Painting | |
| hishi-no-mon 菱の門 | Lit. diamond-shaped gate. Also called ōteguchi 大手口 (large front entrance). A two-storied turret gate *… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| hishi shirin 菱支輪 | ✓ | A short, curved, non-supporting series of strut-like members used on the under side of eaves to form a transition between… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| hishigaki 菱垣 | Lit. lozenge fence. A type of open fence made with bamboo or other types of wood braided into lozenge shapes. A good example… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| hishigōshi 菱格子 | ✓ | 1 Diamond- or lozenge-shaped lattice or muntins used on doors, transoms, and fences *… |
Art History, Architecture, General Terms, Painting |
| hishiko 菱子 | 1 Muntins, diamond shaped in cross section, used in place of vertical bars in some window openings. … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| hishimon 菱文 | ✓ | A diamond or lozenge-shaped motif that is a type of traditional design motif *… |
Art History, Painting |
| hiten 飛天 | Flying apsaras. Heavenly beings invisible to the human eye, believed to fly with superhuman power and speed. Found in Middle… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| hiten kōhai 飛天光背 | Also hitenkō 飛天光. Lit. flying apsaras nimbus. A halo *kōhai 光背,… |
Art History, Sculpture |
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