Keywords
Architecture
Roofing Tiles
Also tsumegawara 爪瓦. A row of narrow tile pieces cut crosswise from semi-cylindrical tiles *marugawara 丸瓦, and arranged to form decorative bands of intersecting semi-circles or full circles on a built-up ridge *kumimune 組棟. A great variety of patterns can be formed by placing the tiles right side up and upside-down in layers so that they overlap. This type of pattern was first used toward the end of the 16th century, and was most popular from the 17th to 19th century.
