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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
ogami karakusagawara 拝唐草瓦 ✓

The roof tiles positioned like hands joined in prayer covering the triangular framework of a Japanese roof structure. Broad…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
ogamidomoe 拝巴

A peak tile. A semi-cylindrical, elongated, barrel-shaped, hanging tile which covers the broad, concave, eave-end tiles *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
ogawara 男瓦 ✓

Lit. "male tile." Also written 雄瓦, called *fusegawara 伏瓦, tsutsugawara…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
ogawara 男瓦

Lit. "male tile." A semi-cylindrical cover tile *marugawara …

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
oni-ita 鬼板

A wooden board or an undecorated tile used in place of ogre face tiles *onigawara鬼瓦 at each…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
onidai 鬼台 ✓

Also called onigawaradai 鬼瓦台, oni-itadai 鬼板台. The base material on the ridge ends of the main roof of…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
onigawara 鬼瓦

Lit. "goblin-tile."

1 The generic name for decorative roof tiles found at the ends of a main ridge *…

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