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Rare term

shrine building where votive picture tablets are hung

portrait; likeness; sketch (of a face)

illustration (in a book, newspaper, etc.); picture

painting of a scene in Hell; a picture of Hell

tomoe; heraldic design composed of two or more interlocked comma-shaped figures

Art, aesthetics

oil painting

shadow picture; silhouette; shadowgraph

illustration appearing in the first pages of a publication; frontispiece

Word usually written using kana alone; Children's language

drawing; painting

Colloquial

doodling; sketching

gold or silver lacquer; lacquer decoration sprinkled with metal powder

portrait

rough sketch; design; cartoon

Historical term

fumi-e; fumie; tablet bearing Christian images, on which Edo-period authorities forced suspected Christians to trample

allegiance test; loyalty test

cutout; cutout picture; papercut art

oil paints; oil colors (colours); oils

drawing of a character in a standing pose (in video games)

ink painting

trompe l'oeil

写し絵 only

sketch (depicting real people or nature); drawing sketched from real life

magic-lantern picture; child's copying pictures; shadowgraph

写し絵 only

mirror image (e.g. of society); (metaphorical) depiction

picture for coloring in (colouring)

geoglyph (drawing on the ground)

Art, aesthetics

watercolors; watercolours; watercolor paint; watercolour paint

picture of Hell; painting representing Hell

ukiyo-e artist