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fukiashi 葺足 ✓

The length of the visible surface of an ordinary broad, concave roofing tile, *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
fukuben 複弁

A motif which consists of a double-stylized lotus petal with a leaf seedling in each petal. Found on the pendant, *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
fukuben rengemon 複弁蓮華文 ✓

Also written 複弁蓮花文. A double-lotus-petal motif applied to the pendant tiles, *gatō…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
fusegawara 伏瓦

Also called *ogawara 男瓦 (male tile).

1 A semi…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
fusumagawara 伏間瓦

Also written 衾瓦; also called *kanmurigawara 冠瓦 or *…

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