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JAANUS

kawaragushi 瓦櫛

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Architecture

Folk Dwellings

A tiled ridge on the roofs of thatched vernacular houses *minka 民家 in parts of Gunma Prefecture.

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JAANUS is the on-line Dictionary of Japanese Architectural and Art Historical Terminology compiled by Dr. Mary Neighbour Parent.

Originally built by the Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation, it is now hosted and maintained by the Media Center for Art History at Columbia University