bugaku: ancient court dances in Japan, imported from Asia.
Buddha: historic figure from sixth century b.c. in northeast Asia whose teachings became the basis for Buddhism.
chabana: spare and elegant flower arrangement prepared to accompany the tea ceremony.
Ch'an: belief system founded by Bodhidharma in the sixth century in China, combining elements of Indian Buddhism and Chinese Taoism and known in Japan as Zen.
Ch'ang-an: T'ang Chinese capital which was the model for the
original Japanese capital at Nara.
cha-no-yu: Japanese tea ceremony, which became the vehicle for the preservation of Zen aesthetic theory.
chigai-dana: decorative shelf system in traditional Japanese houses which was borrowed from storage cabinets in Ch'an monasteries.i
chinzo: realistic polychromatic character studes of Zen masters. Chojiro (1515-1592): first great raku potter and founder of raku dynasty.
choka: early Japanese poetry form, longer than Haiku.