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| Central Buddha flanked on each side by a bodhisattva |
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| Greek, “beautiful writing.” Handwriting or penmanship, especially elegant writing as a decorative art. |
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| The crosspiece at the gables of Japanese shrine architecture |
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| In a horizontal scroll, the “false ending, “ which arrests the viewer’s gaze by appearing to be the end of a narrative sequence, but which actually sets the stage for a culminating figure or scene. |
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| Ancient Japanese bronze ceremonial bells, usually featuring raised decoration. |
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| Sculpted fired pottery cylinders, modeled in human, animal, or other forms and placed around early (archaic) Japanese burial mounds. |
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| A sound-based writing system developed in Japan from Chinese characters; it came to be the primary script for Japanese court poetry. |
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| In ancient Chinese painting, thin brush lines suggesting tensile strength. |
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| Japanese, “cord markings.” A type of Japanese decorative technique characterized by ropelike markings. |
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| Shinto deities or spirits, believed in Japan to exist in nature (mountains, waterfalls) and in charismatic people. |
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| Japanese, “golden hall.” In a Japanese Buddhist temple complex, the building housing the main sculptural icons |
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| An almond-shapednimbus surrounding the figure of Christ or other sacred figure. |
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| Horizontal beams in a roof structure,parallel to the ridgepoles, resting on the main rafters and giving support to the secondary rafters. |
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| The beam running the length of a building below the peak of the gabled roof |
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| In 14th- through 19thcentury Japan, a military governor who managed the country on behalf of a figurehead emperor. |
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| In Buddhism, an account of a sermon by or a dialogue involving the Buddha. A scriptural account of the Buddha. See also jataka. |
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| Tenon (Mortise and Tenon System) |
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| A projection on the end of a piece of wood that is inserted into a corresponding hole (mortise) in another piece of wood to form a joint. |
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| A Japanese sculptor active in the late 6th and early 7th centuries. His work was mainly buddhist in nature. |
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| Burial mound; in Etruscan architecture, tumuli cover one or more subterranean multichambered tombs cut out of the local tufa (limestone). Also characteristic of the Japanese Kofun period of the third and fourth centuries. |
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| Also known as nativestyle painting, a purely Japanese style that often involved colorful, decorative representations of Japanese narratives or landscapes |
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| A Japanese Buddhist sect and its doctrine, emphasizing enlightenment through intuition and Introspection rather than the study of scripture. In Chinese, Chan. |
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