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| Heian period painting style that features colorful scenes of nature derived from Japanese poetic or literary sources |
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| Japanese term for Chinese painting styles popular in Japan |
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| A freestanding folding screen, often made in pairs. |
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| “Pictures rolled”; a horizontally oriented, illustrated narrative scroll. |
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“Women’s pictures”; term indicates subject matter in painting felt to be especially of interest to women, such as that illustrating romantic poetry or
prose; this style is exemplified by tsukuri-e paintings, in which built-up color
dominates. |
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“Men’s pictures”; term used to describe works usually created for competitions or painting parties where the subject, often of war or the grotesque, is quickly sketched and therefore judged suitable only for men’s viewing. This style of painting is usually monochromatic or lightly colored and
relies on calligraphic line as the basis for the composition. |
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Images of built-up colors over a cartoon outline, so that few of the
outlines remain visible in the finished image |
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| “blown-off roof”; technique of composing a picture such that the roofs of buildings are absent so that the viewer may peer into the rooms and witness events taking place |
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| A two- or three-dimensional conceptualization of a deity’s palace or of the Buddhist cosmos. |
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The welcome to the Western Paradise by Amida Buddha, and possibly one or
more bodhisattvas, of a devotee after death. An important subject in artwork
associated with Pure Land School Buddhism. |
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| Carving a sculpture from a single block of wood. |
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