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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
hachiyō fukuben rengemon 八葉複弁蓮華文

A decorative stylized lotus-flower pattern, *rengemon 蓮華文, found on eaves…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hada noshigawara 肌熨斗瓦

1 The second layer of tiles that is curved and set at a same angle to the first layer of tiles, …

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hamontai 波文帯 Also called a zigzag motif *inazumamon 稲妻文 or a saw tooth pattern *… Architecture, Roofing Tiles
han-noshigawara 半熨斗瓦

Rectangular ridge tiles with half the width of an ordinary ridge tile *noshigawara…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hanagawara 花瓦

Also hashigawara 端瓦. Lit. flower tile. An edge or border tile originally, the word came to replace the more…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hanahiragawara 端平瓦

A broad, concave end tile that alternates with an eave end semi-circular tile surmounted with a circular pendant *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hanamarugawara 端丸瓦

An old name for semi circular eave end tiles *nokimarugawara 軒丸瓦. Also…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hanasogawara はなそ瓦 ✓

A semi-circular convex tile with a pendant *gatō 瓦当, attached to…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
harigawara 張瓦 Also written 貼瓦. Also called haritsukegawara 張付瓦 or 貼付瓦. Tiles applied to a wall.
Architecture, Roofing Tiles
henkō karakusamon 扁行唐草文 ✓

An asymmetric arabesque pattern. Most arabesque patterns have a centrally positioned motif *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hira karakusagawara 平唐草瓦

Also called hira karakusa 平唐草. A broad concave eave-end tile *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hiragawara 平瓦 ✓

Also called *megawara 女瓦 (female tile). One of the basic…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hirasode kakugawara 平袖角瓦 ✓

Also sekigai sodekakugawara 積蓋袖角瓦. Lit. stacked, broad-sleeved angular cover tiles. The broad, concave pendant…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hirasodegawara 平袖瓦 ✓

Also sekigai sodegawara 積蓋袖瓦. A broad, rectangular type of concave roof tile *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hiregawara 鰭瓦

Lit. fish tile. The lower parts of ogre tiles *onigawara 鬼瓦 which extend…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hiunmon 飛雲文 ✓

Also *unmon 雲文, ryūunmon 流雲文. The flowing cloud motif on…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hon-irakagawara 本甍瓦

A general term for three basic tiles: irakadomoe 甍巴, a tile decorated with a comma shaped pattern *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hongawarabuki 本瓦葺 ✓

A general term for a tile roof, especially one which is composed of relatively flat, broad, concave tiles *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
hōsōge 宝相華

1 Also read hossōge, an abbreviation of hōsōgemon 宝相華文. Lit. precious flower. Hōsōge…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Art History, Painting
hōsōge karakusa 宝相華唐草

1 Abbreviation of hōsōge karakusamon 宝相華唐草文. A type of Chinese arabesque design *…

Architecture, Decorations, Roofing Tiles
kaben 花弁

The band of lotus petals *renji 蓮子 which encircles the seed pod *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kake domoegawara 掛巴瓦

Often abbreviated kake domoe 掛巴. The semi-cylindrical eave-end cover tiles, noki kakedomoe marugawara…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kake karakusagawara 掛唐草瓦

A common term for the broad, concave eave-end pendant tiles that are placed along the gable overhang *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kakegawara 掛瓦

A general term for tiles used to cover the bargeboard *hafu 破風 on a gable roof *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kanimendo gawara 蟹面戸瓦

Also kanimendo 蟹面戸. Lit. crab filler tile. A crab-shaped tile used to cover the gap created by the junction of two…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kanmurigawara 冠瓦

Roof tiles stacked up on the ridge of a temple or castle roof. Also called *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
karakusagawara 唐草瓦

Lit. arabesque roof tile. Also *hanahiragawara 端平瓦.


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Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kasagawara 笠瓦

Coping tiles. Tiles used to cover the top of a fence or wall to prevent weathering. The fences may be made of wood, bamboo…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kawara 瓦

Lit. tile. The roofing material made of fired clay introduced to Japan from Korea (Paekche Kingdom, Jp: *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kawarabuki 瓦葺

Also kawarabuki yane 瓦葺屋根, kawarayane 瓦屋根. Tile roofing. A roof covered with fired clay tiles usually…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kawarabukishi 瓦葺師

A craftsman who tiles roofs, especially in the area of Kawachinagano 河内長野, and in the vicinity of Osaka.

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kawarahisashi 瓦廂

Also pronounced kawarabisashi. A tiled pent roof. The term is especially common in Hyōgo Prefecture where a smaller…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kawarajakuri 瓦决 Grooves made on roof timber, kawarazan 瓦桟, to prevent roof tiles from slipping. A wedge-shaped board *… Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kawarajiki 瓦敷

A floor that consists of tiles placed over hard-pack earthen floor, especially common in Zen temples. When the tiles are set…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kawarajiri 瓦尻 ✓

Lit. the tail of a tile. The tail or upper end of a broad concave roof tile *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kawarakugi 瓦釘 ✓

Nails used to secure broad concave tiles *hiragawara 平瓦 and semi-…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kawaramaki 瓦巻

Lit. roof tiles that wrap around. Roof tiles used to cover the ridge of a farmhouse with a thatched roof, or a merchant's…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kawaramune 瓦棟

A tiled ridge on the roof of thatched vernacular houses *minka 民家. …

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kawaramuneage 瓦棟上げ

A ceremony to celebrate the completion of a tiled roof in the area of Ōita City, Ōita Prefecture. The senior craftsman, …

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kawaraya 瓦屋

1 A structure with a tile roof. See *kawarabuki 瓦葺.

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Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kawarayane 瓦屋根

Roofing material made of fired clay tiles, first introduced with the advent of Buddhism from the Paekche Kingdom (Jp: *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kawaraza 瓦座

1 A tile seat. A long timber rail on the sheathing which covers the rafters and eave support of a roof. The…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kentōmon 剣頭文 ✓

Lit. sword tip motif. Also kentomoemon noki hiragawara 剣巴文軒平瓦. Also kenbishimon 剣菱文. The pendant *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kerabagawara 螻羽瓦 ✓

Also called *kake domoegawara 掛巴瓦; *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kigawara 木瓦

Also pronounced kogawara. Wooden strips shaped to resemble traditional tile roofing *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kikkamon 菊花文 ✓

A stylized chrysanthemum pattern derived from the imperial crest used on the pendant *gatō…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kikugawara 菊瓦 ✓

Also called kikumaru 菊丸, kikumarugawara 菊丸瓦, or kogiku 小菊. A tile decorated with a…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kinsei karakusamon 均正唐草文 ✓

A perfectly balanced design around a symmetrical central motif. A type of arabesque found on the pendants *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kodomoe 小巴

Also called komarugawara 小丸瓦. Eave-end, semi-cylindrical tiles *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
kyoshimon 鋸歯文 ✓

Also called sen kyoshimon 線鋸歯文. Saw-tooth pattern. Kyoshimon includes the zigzag pattern *…

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