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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
gaiku 外区 ✓

The section of a pendant *gatō 瓦当, outside the lotus flower motif, on a semi…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
ganburigawara 雁振瓦 ✓

Also called *kanmurigawara 冠瓦, *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
gatō mon'yō 瓦当文様 ✓

Patterns, motifs, designs applied to the circular antefixes *gatō 瓦当 on semi…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
gatō 瓦当 ✓

1 Eave-end tiles with a circular or semi-circular ornamental pendant. Gatō were brought to Japan…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
gyōgibuki gawara 行基葺瓦 ✓

A type of smooth, lipless, semi-cylindrical cover tile that tapers from its broader front end to a narrower back end.…

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