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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
nagamarugawara 長丸瓦

Longer than standard semi-cylindrical roof tiles used as coping tiles *kasagawara…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
nagayamono 長屋物

The smallest of three standard sizes of roof tiles yanegawara 屋根瓦, used during the 17th-19th century. The…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
naiku 内区 ✓

The inner section of the pendant *gatō 瓦当, attached to a semi-…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
namionigawara 波鬼瓦 ✓

An ogre tile with a wave pattern descending from its base to form legs ashimoto 足元, that divide over the gable of…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
nindō karakusamon 忍冬唐草文 ✓

Also suikazura karakusamon; also nindō karakusa 忍冬唐草. Lit. "honeysuckle arabesque pattern." A pattern used…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
ninohiragawara 二の平瓦 ✓

Broad, concave, roof tiles set directly above and slightly back from the broad, concave, pendant tiles *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
noborinoki kakegawara 登軒掛瓦

Lit. "ascending eave hanging tiles." The semi-cylindrical tiles *marugawara…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
nokidomoegawara 軒巴瓦

Also *nokimarugawara 軒丸瓦. A popular name for the semi-cylindrical eave-…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
nokigawara 軒瓦

1 Also written 宇瓦. Eaves-end tiles. Roof tiles placed along an eaves line,…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
nokihiragawara 軒平瓦 ✓

Also *karakusagawara 唐草瓦; *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
nokimarugawara 軒丸瓦 ✓

A semi-cylindrical or half-round eave-end pendant tile. The pendant *gatō 瓦当, is…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
nokisakigawara 軒先瓦 Broad concave eave-end tiles used along the edge of the roof eaves of timber dwellings or temples. Architecture, Roofing Tiles
noshigawara 熨斗瓦 ✓

Also noshizumigawara 熨斗積瓦. The ancient name was *tsutsumigawara…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
nunome-gawara 布目瓦

A generic term for the textured impression found on the underside of a roof tile. The impression is left by the cloth placed…

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