Also hashigawara 端瓦. Lit. flower tile. An edge or border tile originally, the word came to replace the more difficult term *abumigawara 鎧瓦 which in the 7th-12th century was usually decorated with a stylized lotus flower pattern *rengemon 蓮華文. The Wamyō ruijushō 倭名類聚鈔 (10th century), a kind of dictionary, included hanagawara and hashigawara (end or edge tile), a term with a similar meaning. By the late Heian period, a comma pattern *tomoemon 巴文 came to be preferred over the lotus pattern and it is possible from that time on the terms hanagawara and hashigawara were gradually superseded by *tomoegawara 巴瓦. In the 7th-12th century, hanagawara and hashigawara became interchangeable and were also applied to the broad concave eave-end pendant tile *nokihiragawara 軒平瓦.