| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| chōzuya 手水舎 | Also written 手水屋. Also called suibansha 水盤舎 or temizuya 手水舎. Shrine or temple building for cleaning hands… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| chūban 中判 | Lit. medium-size format. A size of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 print. The term chūban… |
Art History, Painting | |
| chūberi 中縁 | A part of the mounting of a hanging scroll *kakemono 掛物. The chūberi… |
Art History, Painting | |
| chūbō 中房 | The central, circular part of a round, eave-end, pendant tile *gatō 瓦当… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| chūdai 中台 | The middle base of a lantern *tōrō 灯籠 upon which rests the flame holder and… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| chūdan 中段 | Middle area. In upper class residences especially from the Momoyama period and through the Edo period, seating was… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| chūden 中殿 | The space *ai-no-ma 相の間 between the sanctuary *… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| chūdō 中堂 | Lit. central hall. A hall situated between two Buddhist halls or a hall with corridors attached on either side. The most… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| chūhon 中本 | Lit. a middle-size book. A woodblock printed book, popular during the Edo period, which is one-half the size of a … |
Art History, Painting | |
| chūjin 中陣 | A term used in shrine architecture: a middle area between the *honden 本殿, *… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| chūjō 中将 | A Noh mask *nōmen 能面 supposedly intended to represent the 9th-century poet and… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| chūkin 鋳金 | Metal casting. A technique used in metalwork to produce vessels or sculptures by melting down metal and pouring it into a… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| chūkondō 中金堂 | Lit. middle golden hall. An image hall *kondō 金堂 located at the center of… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| chūmon 中門 | 1 Middle gate. The second or inner gate on the north-south axis of a temple compound in the ancient period… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| chūmon-zukuri 中門造り | A type of vernacular house *minka 民家, characterized by one or more wings or… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| chūmonrō 中門廊 | 1 A Heian-period corridor intersected by gates. In the most elaborate Heian-period shinden style… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| chūnikai 中二階 | ✓ | A term for a loft or attic occupying the roof space of a vernacular house *minka… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| chūsei kenchiku 中世建築 | Lit. medieval architecture. Temple and shrine buildings erected during the Kamakura, Nanbokuchō, and Muromachi periods when… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| chūshikō ganna 中仕工鉋 | A smoothing plane, used to further smooth the surface of timber after the general roughing plane *… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| chūshin kazari 中心飾 | Also tenjō chūshinkazari 天井中心飾. Lit. center flower. 1 A group of decorative patterns in… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| Chūshingura 忠臣蔵 | A pictorial subject matter taken from The Treasury of Loyal Retainers Chūshingura, an epic and well-loved story of… |
Art History, Painting | |
| chūshinseki 中心石 | Lit. center stone(s). A single stone or stone arrangement *ishigumi 石組,… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| chūson 中尊 | Also chūdai-no-son 中台の尊. The principal statue in a group of Buddhist statues. The central image in a triad or group… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| chūtō 柱頭 | A synonym for the large bearing block *daito 大斗 placed on the tops of pillars… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| chūzō 鋳造 | Also imono 鋳物. Casting. A technique used to make cast sculptural forms. The base material was heated… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| daiba 台場 | ✓ | A fort located at a strategic location on a sea coast, riverbank, or island. It was furnished with large guns. Daiba were… |
Architecture, Castles |
| daiban 台盤 | A long, low, rectangular table on which food was served in the emperor's residential compound, Dairi 内裏, of the imperial… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| daibandokoro 台盤所 | A room that contains a *daiban 台盤, a long, low, rectangular table on which food… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings | |
| daibatsu 題跋 | 1 A general term that refers to the title or preface, dai 題 or daiji 題辞, and the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| daibusshi 大仏師 | Also daibusshi-shiki 大仏師職, zōbutsu-chōkan 造仏長官. An important Buddhist sculptor *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| daibutsu 大仏 | ✓ | Also jōrokubutsu 丈六仏. The term used to describe a very large statue of Buddha. Originally any statue more than… |
Art History, Sculpture |
| daibutsuyō 大仏様 | Lit. Indian style. The style of architecture introduced to Japan when the priest Chōgen 重源 (1121-1206) returned from China.… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| daibutsuyō kibana 大仏様木鼻 | Also daibutsuyōkei kibana 大仏様系木鼻. Lit. nosings in the daibutsu style. Incised nosings found on bracket… |
Architecture, Decorations | |
| daibutsuyō kumimono 大仏様組物 | Also daibutsuyō tokyō 大仏様斗きょう. Lit. Great-Buddha-style bracket complex. A bracket system introduced by the priest,… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| daibutsuyō kurigata 大仏様繰形 | ✓ | Typical daibutsu style *daibutsuyō 大仏様, decorative carvings *… |
Architecture, Decorations |
| daibutsuza 大仏座 | A standard lotus pedestal *rengeza 蓮華座 used to support a *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| daiden 大殿 | Also daiyūden 大雄殿. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| daidokoro 台所 | 1 Believed to be an abbreviated form of *daibandokoro… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| daie 大衣 | Also sōgyari 僧伽梨 (Sk: sanghati). A robe worn by Buddhist priests. The largest of the three robes *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Daigensui Myōō 大元帥明王 | Also Taigensui Myōō 太元帥明王. Sometimes read Daigen Myōō. In Sanskrit, Atavaka, which means lord of the forest, and which is… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| daigiri-oga 台切大鋸 | A large crosscut saw with a blade 70 cm long and 30 cm wide that has a wooden handle at each end for two people. This saw… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| daiin-no-koguchi 大陰の虎口 | Also written 大陰虎口. A simple, early form of castle entrance *koguchi … |
Architecture, Castles | |
| Daiippōmon 第一峰門 | ✓ | A unique Chinese style four-legged gate made by Chinese carpenters in 1644 using imported, broad leaf cedar. It is located… |
Architecture, Gates |
| Daiitoku Myōō 大威徳明王 | Lit. *myōō 明王 of great awesome virtue. A god thought so powerful as to be able to… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| daijinbashira 大臣柱 | Also called wakibashira 脇柱; taishōbashira 大将柱. Initially, the square post placed at the right front corner… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| Daijizaiten 大自在天 | Translation of Sanskrit Mahesvara (also transliterated as Makeishura 摩醯首羅), one of the many names of Shiva, who, along with… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| Daijō-e byōbu 大嘗会屏風 | Also called Yukisuki-no-byōbu 悠紀主基屏風. Folding screens *byōbu 屏風 used… |
Art History, Painting | |
| Daijōkyū 大嘗宮 | Also daijōgū. A temporary palace of unstripped timber, untreated grasses and reeds, and bamboo, used for the Grand… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| Daijōsai 大嘗祭 | Also read ōnihe matsuri, ōnie matsuri, ōname matsuri, and ōmube matsuri. The Great Food… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| daikagura-zukuri 太神楽造 | Also called daikagurabashira 太神楽柱; *kudabashira 管柱 or… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| daikaiyūshiki teien 大回遊式庭園 | Lit. large strolling-style garden. A type of large-scale garden which is enjoyed on foot. Most large strolling gardens… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| daikōdō 大講堂 | ✓ | Lit. large lecture hall. The lecture hall at Hōryūji 法隆寺 in Nara is the most famous and oldest extant daikōdō. The… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| daikoku-bashira 大黒柱 | ✓ | Also written 大極柱, shin-no-hashira 心の柱, yaku-bashira 役柱, and naka-bashira 中柱. |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Shrines |
| Daikoku 大黒 | 1 An abbreviation for *Daikokuten 大黒天 (Sk: Mahakala). Regarded by… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Sculpture, Art History | |
| Daikokuten 大黒天 | ✓ | Daikokuten is generally famous as a god of luck. He is most familiar in Japan as a fat, smiling figure with a big sack over… |
Art History, Iconography |
| daiku 大工 | Carpenter. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| daime datami 台目畳 | Also written 代目畳, 大目畳. A straw mat about three-quarters the length of a standard size mat, about 135-137 cm long. In Kyoto… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| daimebashira 台目柱 | Also called *nakabashira 中柱 or *… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| daimedoko 台目床 | An alcove *tokonoma 床の間, with a wooden base, found in a small tea ceremony… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| daimegiri 台目切 | A placement of the firebox or hearth inside the guest's mat which results in a smaller than normal size tatami mat… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| daimochitsugi 台持継 | ✓ | A center joint. An oblique scarf joint combining a housed *daboso 太ぼそ joint and blind tenons. The mortises are… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| daimon 大門 | Also pronounced *ōmon. A generic term for a variety of styles of main gates. One… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| daimyō teien 大名庭園 | Lit. daimyō garden. The Edo period strolling-style *kaiyūshiki teien… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| dainaoshiganna 台直鉋 | A plane used to shave the base of another plane. It is very important in planing that the base of the plane stock, known as… |
Architecture, Tools | |
| Dainichi 大日 | Lit. Great Sun. Translation of the Sk. Mahavairocana "(Great) Illuminating One"; also translated as (Dai)Henjō (大)遍照 "(Great… |
Art History, Iconography | |
| Dairimon 内裏門 | A general term for gates belonging to the Imperial Palace, Kyoto Gosho 京都御所. The *Shōmei… |
Architecture, Gates | |
| dairo 大炉 | Also called ōro. A tea-room firebox or hearth made larger than the normal 42 cm square. Measurements varied, but… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| daisen 題簽 | Also written 題箋. Also called *harigedai 貼外題 and gedaigami 外題紙. A… |
Art History, Painting | |
| daishidō 大師堂 | ✓ | Lit. great master hall. Daishidō are temple buildings particularly important to the Shingon 真言 sect, established by… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| daisu 台子 | A fairly large, portable, double-shelved display for tea ceremony utensils. Traditionally, it was used at the most formal… |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| daitenshu 大天守 | Lit. large *tenshu 天守. The principal tower. The largest tenshu in a… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| daito 大斗 | ✓ | The largest type of bearing block *masu 斗, usually placed directly on top of a… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| daitō 大塔 | ✓ | Lit. Large pagoda. A 2-storied pagoda. A large pagoda of the *tahōtō 多宝塔 type,… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| daito hijiki 大斗肘木 | ✓ | A large bearing block *daito 大斗 with a bracket arm *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| daiwa 台輪 | ✓ | 1 A wall plate or top plate placed along the top of head-penetrating tie beams *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| daiwadome 台輪留 | A mite red, right-angle joint used at the corner, sumi 隅, of a building to join a wall plate, *… |
Architecture, Joints | |
| daiyū hōden 大雄宝殿 | ✓ | Also called daiyūden 大雄殿 or *daiden 大殿. Lit. great leader's treasure… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| daiza 台座 | A pedestal or dais upon which a Buddhist image is placed. The type of pedestal is related to the type of image it supports… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| daizaseki 台座石 | Also *daiza 台座. The pedestal or base beneath a sculpture, pagoda, or lantern.… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| dakimarugawara 抱丸瓦 | Also kazunemaru 重ね丸. An interjacent tile. A section of a semi-cylindrical roof tile laid between the first broad… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| dakkatsu kanshitsu 脱活乾漆 | Also dakkanshitsu 脱乾漆, dakkatsu kanshitsuzō 脱活乾漆像, dakkatsu kanshitsu-zukuri 脱活乾漆造. Hollow dry… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| dami-e 濃絵 | 1 The traditional term for kinpeki nōsaiga 金碧濃彩画, a painting which has strong colors, particularly… |
Art History, Painting | |
| dan 段 | 1 Also written 反. A step. The level part or tread of a flight of stairs. When made of wood, the tread is… |
Art History, Architecture, General Terms, Crafts | |
| dan 檀 | 1 A generic term for a level mound or platform raised above the surrounding ground. An earthen mound may be… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| danbashigo 段梯子 | ✓ | A simple step-ladder, also called hashigo 梯子 or hashigodan 梯子段. Examples include a *… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| danbuki 段葺 | 1 A roofing method that uses copper sheets laid in a step-like pattern. |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| danjōzumi 壇上積 | ✓ | Also written 壇正積; danjōzumi kidan 壇上積基壇. A style of podium introduced to Japan from Korea in the latter half of the… |
Architecture, General Terms |
| dankarikomi 段刈込 | Lit. layered pruning. A basic type of pruning *karikomi 刈込. When used for a… |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| dankei 断景 | Lit. cutting scenery. The technique of blocking off scenery outside the garden. Most often a large clipped hedge, … |
Architecture, Gardens | |
| danmen 断面 | Lit. a section. A vertical section scale drawing of a building or architectural detail shown either transversely, … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| danmen-zu 断面図 | Also yokodanmen-zu 横断面図, also read ōdanmen-zu. Lit. a cross section drawing on the longitudinal axis. … |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| danshi 檀紙 | Japanese paper *washi 和紙 originally made from mayumi 檀 fibers (the… |
Art History, Painting | |
| danzō 檀像 | A Buddhist statue made from fragrant, fine-grained wood such as white sandalwood *… |
Art History, Sculpture | |
| Daruma 達磨 | ✓ | Sk: Bodhidharma. Ch: Damo. A semi-legendary Indian monk credited with bringing the teachings of Zen (Ch: Chan) to China.… |
Art History, Iconography |
| dashi 山車 | Also called yamaboko 山鉾, hikiyama 引山, maiguruma 舞車, odoriguruma 踊車, and yatai… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| dashibari 出梁 | A structural member in the roof of the main part of a dwelling, placed above the 1-bay wide corridor, *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| dashibei 出塀 | A wall projecting 15-30 cm outward from the flat top, *inubashiri 犬走り, of a… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| dashigeta 出桁 | 1 Also called *gagyō 丸桁 or gangyō. A round-eave purlin… |
Architecture, General Terms | |
| dashimise-zukuri 出店造 | Small shrine buildings in an early Kasuga style, *kasuga-zukuri 春日造, that… |
Architecture, Shrines | |
| date だて | Also written 伊達. Originally derogatory, the term implies a man arrogant and full of his own prowess; it later came to… |
Art History, Painting |
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