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| Shinto sun goddess; has a shrine at Ise. |
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| The Buddha of Infinite Light and Life (Buddha of the west) Japanese Buddha. |
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| Greek, "beautiful writing." Handwriting or penmanship, especially elegant writing as a decorative art. |
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| A vitreous coating applied to pottery to seal and decorate the surface; it may be coloured, transparent, or paque, and glossy or matte. In oil painting, a thin, transparent, or semitransparent layer applied over a colour to alter it slightly. |
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| Paintings attached to a painted on long, narrow scrolls that the viewer unrolled horizontally, section by section from right to left. |
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| Chinese painters often mounted pictures on, or painted directly on, unrolled vertical scrolls for display on walls. |
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| Japanese for "golden hall." The main hall for worship in a Japanese Buddhist temple complex. Contained statues of the Buddha and the bodhisattvas to whom the temple was dedicated. |
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| An East Asian tower, usually associated with a Buddhist temple, having a multiplicity of winged eaves; though to be derived from the Indian stupa. |
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| Extremely fine, hard, white ceramic. A fine while clay called kaolin mized with ground petuntse, a type of feldspar. True material of this is translucent and rings when struck. |
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| A varnishlike substance made from the sap of the Asiatic suman tree, used to decorate wood and other organic materials. Often coloured with mineral pigments, it cures to great hardness and has a lustrous surface. |
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| A motif commonly found on Chinese ritual bronze vessels from the Shang and Zhou Dynasty. The design typically consists of a zoomorphic mask. |
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| "Way of the Gods." villagers prayed to local deities and spirits called kami. Shinto changed under Buddhism's influence, before Buddhism, painted or carved images of Shinto deities did not exist. |
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| In 12th- through 19th-century Japan, a military governor who managed the country on behalf of a figurehead emperor. |
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| A mixture of fine clay and water used in ceramic decoration. |
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| The traditional woven straw mat used for floor covering in Japanese architecture. |
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Latin for "burial mound." In etruscan architecture, tumuli cover one or more subterranean multicambered tombs cut out of the local limestone.
Also characteristic of the Japanese Kofun period of the third and fourth centuries. |
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| Japanese for "pictures of the floating world." During the Edo period, woodcut prints depicting brothels, popular entertainment, and beautiful women. |
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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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