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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
bonjimon 梵字文 ✓

Lit. Sanskrit motif. A Sanskrit character, bonji 梵字, that decorates pendants *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
botan karakusa 牡丹唐草

1 Abbreviation of botan karakusagawara 牡丹唐草瓦. A roof tile, often an eaves-end tile, whose pendant…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Painting, Art History
budō karakusamon 葡萄唐草文 ✓

Also abbreviated to *budō karakusa 葡萄唐草. A grape-patterned arabesque used…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
jibuki 地葺

The traditional method of laying or setting tiles on the sheathing *noji 野地 of…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
jūben rengemon 重弁蓮華文 ✓

A roof tile style with a lotus pattern with double layered petals. The additional petals are placed between the leaf sprout…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
jūben 重弁

A layered petal motif with one or more petals superimposed one on top of another. It is found on some pendants *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
jūkenmon 重圏文

A pattern composed of concentric circles on a pendant *gatō 瓦当 and parallel…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
jūkomon nokihiragawara 重弧文軒平瓦 ✓

A pattern of parallel lines decorating the pendant *gatō 瓦当 of a broad,…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles

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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