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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
marugawara 丸瓦 ✓

Also written 円瓦. Also called *ogawara 男瓦, especially in the 6th-…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
me-itagawara 目板瓦

1 A flat, rectangular roof tile with a small, semi-cylindrical tile attached. This combined tile is placed…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
megawara 女瓦 ✓

Lit. "female tile." Also called migawara. Also written 雌瓦, or 牝瓦. A 7-12th century term for a broad concave roof…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
megegawara めげ瓦

Tile fragments used to strengthen earthen kilns and mud fences.

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
mendogawara 面戸瓦 ✓

Filler or gap-fill tiles used to close or plug the openings along the base of the main ridge *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
minokō kakegawara 箕甲掛瓦

Roof tiles that are placed along the drooping verges; that is, tiles that extend beyond edges of the gables.

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
mizugaeshi 水返

A small edge raised slightly to the left of the right edge an eave-end tile *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
mizukami 水上

The barrel part *dō 胴, of a half-round roofing tile *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
mizushimo 水下

The lower or front end of the barrel part *dō 胴, of a half-round…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
monjigawara 文字瓦

Tile with a motif composed of kanji 漢字 characters that usually form the name of a temple. The use of character…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
munakomigawara 棟込瓦 ✓

A general term for the rows of decorative tiles used along the ridge of a structure. The tiles have many patterns, for…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
munegawara 棟瓦

Also read munagawara. Lit. "ridge tiles." A generic term for the tiles used to cover the apex of the roof.…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
munesumigawara 棟隅瓦

Lit. "tiles at the corners of the ridge." A generic term for the ogre tile *onigawara…

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