| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| kotsugaki 骨描き | A painting technique used to draw an object or motif in light ink strokes. Used since the Edo period during the final steps… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kowatari 古渡 | Also read koto. Also jidaiwatari 時代渡. Lit. Old importation. Foreign objects, including art works, books,… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| koya aratameguchi 小屋改口 | Also called tenjō aratameguchi 天井改口. Lit. roof structure inspecting entrance. A trapdoor built into a ceiling to… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| koyabari 小屋梁 | Also called rokubari 陸梁. The bottom most transverse tie beam *hari 梁 in… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| koyagumi 小屋組 | ✓ | Roof truss or framework; the frame with diagonal members on either side of a strut *tsuka… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| koyane 小屋根 | Lit. a small roof. A small roof built over a shed or subordinate structure attached to a main building. Examples include a… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Koyomibari-no-seki 暦張の席 | Also called Koyomitei 暦亭. The old calendar papers that were pasted to the base of the mud plaster wall of a small… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kōzama 格狭間 | Also written 香狭間, and abbreviated to *sama 狭間. Formerly called *… |
Art History, Sculpture, General Terms, Architecture | |
| kozashiki 小座敷 | Also *koma 小間. Lit. a small room. An old name for a small sized tea ceremony room… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kozukuri 小造り | Fine-cutting, the third stage in the making of a wooden sculpture. Following timber-cutting *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kubihozo 首ほぞ | Lit. neck tenon. A tenon *hozo ほぞ or projection made at the bottom… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kubon raigō 九品来迎 | Also called kubon ōjōraigō 九品往生来迎. The nine possible levels of birth into *… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| kuchi-e 口絵 | Lit. pictures at the entrance. The frontispiece. An illustration or photograph on the first page of book or magazine. |
Art History, Painting | |
| kuchiba 朽葉 | 1 Lit. dead leaves; a dull yellow color. Kuchiba dye is made by mixing yellow gardenia *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kuchikigata 朽木形 | ✓ | Lit. rotted wood pattern. A decorative design pattern which resembles the grain of rotting wood. It is also considered by… |
Art History, Painting |
| kuchinashi 支子 | 1 Also written 梔子. Reddish-yellow color and dye. Made from chopped, boiled seeds of the kuchinashi… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kudabashira 管柱 | Also called daikagurabashira 太神楽柱. Pillars used to build two story structures whereby one pillar is erected on the… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Kudara 百済 | Korean: Paekche. One of the states in the Three Kingdoms period (Jp: Sangoku jidai 三国時代) of early Korean history, and… |
Art History, General Terms | |
| kudarigegyo 降懸魚 | Also *ketakakushi 桁隠, ketakakushigegyo 桁隠懸魚, *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kudarimune 降棟 | ✓ | Also called *hira kudarimune 平降棟. A descending ridge *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kudo-zukuri 竈造 | A roof style found on vernacular houses *minka 民家 in Saga… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| Kue mandara 九会曼荼羅 | The standard form of the *Kongōkai mandara 金剛界曼荼羅 widely used in Japan… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| kugi 釘 | A nail made of metal, wood, or bamboo and shaped according to use. Traditionally, metal kugi are square, … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kugi-e 釘絵 | Lit. nail picture. A type of comic picture *giga 戯画 which Utagawa Kuniyoshi… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kugibori 釘彫 | A hole cutout piece bored on the back of a large, thick, non-penetrating tie beam *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kugikakushi 釘隠 | ✓ | An ornament used to conceal the head of a large nail on a pressing tie rail *nageshi… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| kuginukimon 釘貫門 | ✓ | Also kuginuki 釘貫. A roofless gate found at imperial tombs, mansions, and government check points. When the gate has… |
Architecture, Gates |
| kugurido 潜り戸 | 1 A generic term for a small door, very often a wicket door set into the leaf of another larger door or… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses | |
| kuguriguchi 潜り口 | A generic term for a small low entrance through which one has to stoop or crawl. Often fitted in a large gate, so people may… |
Architecture, General Terms, Tea Houses | |
| kugurimon 潜り門 | 1 A small low gate cut through an earth wall, tsuchibei 土塀, or timber fence *… |
Architecture, Gates, Folk Dwellings | |
| kui 杭 | Also kigui 木杭. Pile. A wooden stake or post driven into the ground. Closely placed round wooden posts, often shaved… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kuichigai 喰違 | Staggered embankments. A castle-wall design where the left and right embankments *doi… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| Kujaku Myōō 孔雀明王 | Lit. peacock king of those who hold knowledge. A female deity of Indian origin (Sk: Mahamayuri). The subject of the … |
Art History, Iconography | |
| kujū-no-tō 九重塔 | Also pronounced kyūjū-no-tō. A 9-storied pagoda. Kudaradaiji 百済大寺 (6th-7th century) in Nara, and Hōshōji 法勝寺 (Heian… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Kūkai 空海 | Early Heian period Buddhist priest (774-835), patriarch of the Shingon 真言 sect of Esoteric Buddhism mikkyō 密教… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| kumadori 隈取 | Also written 暈取. Also called *ungen 繧繝. A general term for shading… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Kumano mandara 熊野曼荼羅 | Devotional paintings of the three shrines of Kumano, Kumano Sanzan 熊野三山, which are called Hongū 本宮 (Kumano Nimasu Jinja… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| kumasaka 熊坂 | A noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing Kumasaka no Chōhan 熊坂長範… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Kume Sennin 久米仙人 | Also written 粂仙人. A legendary immortal often depicted in Edo period painting. According to legend recorded in Konjaku… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kumigaki 組垣 | Lit. braided fence. A generic name for fences in which the lattice pieces of the fence are braided. In some cases the bamboo… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kumiire tenjō 組入天井 | Also kumiire 組入 or kumitenjō 組天井.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| kumiizutsu 組井筒 | Lit. arranged well crib. A type of well made of four joined stone blocks. It is also called kakikomi ido 掻込井戸 (… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kumikikkō 組亀甲 | A decorative pattern of interlocking hexagonal shapes with small triangles in the interstices. A variation of the tortoise… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kumiko 組子 | 1 A muntin, mullion, or munnion. The non-structural timber parts set within the stiles *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kumimono-osae 組物押 | A beam set parallel to the eave purlin which functions like a fulcrum to support and absorb the weight of a beam called *… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kumimono 組物 | A set of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 prints with a common theme. The distinction… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kumimune 組棟 | ✓ | A built-up ridge compound or rows of patterned tiles *munakomigawara… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kumite 組手 | A generic term used in Japanese wood architecture to refer to the joining of one member to another by means of various types… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| kumo gasshōhire 雲合掌鰭 | Lit. cloud principal-rafter fins. A pair of sculpted forms *hire 鰭 in decorative… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kumo shirin 雲支輪 | Also written 雲枝輪. Lit. cloud strut. A type of slanting ceiling strut *shirin 支輪… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kumohijiki 雲肘木 | Kumogata hijiki 雲形肘木. A cloud-patterned bracket arm that is characterized by a somewhat complicated decorative… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kumoto 雲斗 | ✓ | Also pronounced kumomasu or unto. Lit. cloud-shaped bearing block. A bearing block carved with a cloud-… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kumotokyō 雲斗きょう | ✓ | Also called kumogata tokyō 雲形斗きょう or kumogata kumimono 雲形組物. Lit. cloud pattern bracket complex. A… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kumotsudan 供物壇 | The small dais in front of a Buddhist altar on which offerings of boiled rice are placed. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kumoza 雲座 | A base for a Buddhist image *daiza 台座 which takes the form of… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kun 裙 | Also kunsu, kunshi 裙子, mo 裳. A skirt-like garment covering the lower part of a Buddhist priest's… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Kundaikan sōchōki 君台観左右帳記 | A single-volume book detailing Chinese objects, particularly tea-ceremony utensils, given to the shogunal family by Ashikaga… |
Architecture, General Terms, Document | |
| kunisakitō 国東塔 | A single-storied, circular pagoda with a pyramidal roof. A type of *hōtō… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kuniyaki 国焼 | Lit. country fired. An expression used by tea masters in the Edo period to refer to ceramic tea caddies *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| kunoji-no-ike 九の字の池 | "Pond (shaped like the) character 九," one type of garden pond. It is described in the garden manual Hihon sakuteiden… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kura-zukuri 蔵造 | An alternative term for *dozō-zukuri 土蔵造, the fireproof… |
Architecture, Storehouses | |
| kurabeuma 競馬 | Also read keiba. Paintings of horse racing. Most often implies the horse races at Kamigamo Jinja 上賀茂神社 in Kyoto. |
Art History, Painting | |
| kuraidori 位取 | The process of laying floor boards so that the edges fit snugly together and the top surface is perfectly smooth. Wherever… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kurama-ishi 鞍馬石 | ✓ | Lit. Kurama stone. A type of granite quarried in the Mt. Kurama 鞍馬 area north of Kyoto. Light brown in color and of fine… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| kurazashiki 蔵座敷 | Also *zashikigura 座敷蔵. A fireproof structure *… |
Architecture, Storehouses | |
| kure 榑 | Also called se-ita 背板. A roof board that is cut along the annual rings nenrin 年輪 of a tree trunk. Such… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kuri-iro 皀色 | Also kuri 皀. A shade of black or dark grey. A dye of this color is made from tannin found in the oak tree Quercus… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kuri-ishi 栗石 | Also pronounced guri-ishi. Chestnut stones. Small stones (10-30 cm in diameter) that were used as packing or… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kuri 庫裡 | 1 Aiso written 庫裏. A structure in the precincts of a temple originally associated primarily with food… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kuri 繰 | Curved designs carved into wood to make moldings *kurigata 繰形. |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kurigata 繰形 | Also written 刳形. Incised or molded decoration that appears on the edge of exposed architectural members such as no sings *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| Kurikara 倶利迦羅 | Also known as Kurika 矩里迦, a transliteration of Sanskrit Kulika, the name of a dragon-king *… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| kurin 九輪 | ✓ | Also kūrin 空輪, hōrin 宝輪. A part of the finial on top of a pagoda. Usually nine metal rings are attached to… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kurinuki kaerumata 刳抜蟇股 | A type of open frog strut honkaerumata 本蟇股, which is cut from a single timber with decorative openwork carvings *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kuriya 厨 | 1 A cooking structure which houses a cooking range *kamado… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| kurodo-no-gosho 黒戸の御所 | Also abbreviated to kurodo 黒戸. Lit. black door of the palace. A long narrow structure that was used for private… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| kurohige 黒髭 | Black beard. A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 representing a dragon god which… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kurohon 黒本 | Lit. black book. A type of illustrated novella which flourished between the 1740s and the 1790s. A type of *… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kuroki 黒木 | Unstripped or unbarked timber. A log which is cut so that the bark is left intact. Small unbarked logs, left in their… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kuroki torii 黒木鳥居 | The simplest type of Shinto gate *torii 鳥居 belonging to the … |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| Kuron 崑崙 | Also read Konron. Ch: Kunlun. Gigaku mask *gigakumen… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| kuruma-ido 車井戸 | Lit. pulley well. A general term for wells in which the water is drawn by a bucket and rope attached to a pulley. This… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| kururu 枢 | Also read *toboso 枢; kuro or kuroro.
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Architecture, General Terms | |
| kuruwa 郭 | Also written 曲輪. The general term for a castle compound. In the medieval period, when a mountain castle *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kusa-e 草絵 | Colored *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 prints. Kusa-e fall into the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kusa-iro 草色 | Grass-color. A yellow-green color. To make a pigment of this color a blue pigment *aoni… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kusa-no-ma 草の間 | A passage used by grooms in *shoin 書院 style stables *… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| kusabi 楔 | ✓ | A wedge. Easily identified by its isosceles triangle shape. Its two main sides slant from its relatively wide top to a very… |
Architecture, Joints |
| kusabuki 草葺 | Also kusabuki yane 草葺屋根; kuzuyane 葛屋根. Lit. grass roofing. The material used to build one style of… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kusarebushi 腐節 | Lit. decayed knot. A common flaw in wood which can contribute to weakness in any lumber intended to support other members.… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| kusari-no-ma 鎖の間 | ✓ | Lit. chain room. The origin of the term is unclear. According to the Fuhaku hikki 不白筆記 (Notes Written by Kawakami… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| kusayagata tōrō 草屋形灯籠 | A type of lantern where the canopy is in the shape of a hipped roof and the flame recipient looks like a house. |
Architecture, Lanterns | |
| kusazōshi 草双紙 | Illustrated popular fiction published in Edo from the mid-17th to the late 19th century. Narrative and dialogue was written… |
Art History, Painting | |
| kusen hakkai-ishi 九山八海石 | Lit. stone(s) from the nine mountains and eight seas. A single stone or group of stones placed around another stone meant to… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| Kusha mandara 倶舎曼荼羅 | A painting illustrating the tradition of the Abidatsumakusharon 阿毘達磨倶舎論 (Sk: Abhidharmakos'a), a renowned… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| kushigata ranma 櫛形欄間 | A transom *ranma 欄間, with an arched opening in the shape of a comb *… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kushigata 櫛形 | 1 Lit. Comb shape. A semicircular shape、or part of a semicircle, often with trimmed corners. Used in… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kushigatabei 櫛形塀 | ✓ | A partition *hei 塀 between the dado band *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| kushigatamado 櫛形窓 | A window in the shape of a comb *kushigata 櫛形. Sometimes built into outside… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| kushiro 釧 | A bracelet, usually one produced before the mid-6th century. In the Jōmon period bracelets were made from bivalve shells,… |
Art History, Sculpture |
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