| 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 | |
| saiben rengemon 細弁蓮華文 | Lit. "narrow petal lotus motif." A motif with as many as twelve or sixteen narrow petals found on some circular pendant… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| sangawara 桟瓦 | ✓ | A pantile that combines a broad concave tile *hiragawara 平瓦 and a semi-cylindrical… | Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| sangawarabuki 桟瓦葺 | ✓ | Also called jigawara 地瓦 because it is a base tile; and kanryakugawara 簡略瓦 because it combines a broad… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| sankoshomon 三鈷杵文 | Lit. "three-prong pounder motif." Also called *kongōsho 金剛杵 (vajra pounder,… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| sansaiyū gawara 三彩釉瓦 | Roof tiles glazed with more than two colors included various tones of brown, yellow and green which were the most commonly… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| shikigawara 敷瓦 | 1 Also written 甃. Also called *shikihiragawara 敷平瓦, shikihira… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| shikihiragawara 敷平瓦 | ✓ | Also nokishikigawara 軒敷瓦. An under-tile. A broad, concave tile laid underneath a broad concave eave-end pendant… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| shimotai 下帯 | Also pronounced getai. The lower, flat or slanted part of the rim on a broad, concave eave-end tile *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| shioyakigawara 塩焼瓦 | Lit. "salt glazed tile." A process used to frost-proof roofing tiles. A small quantity of salt is thrown on to the… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| shishiguchi 獅子口 | 1 Lit. "lion-mouth tile." An ornamental tile placed on each end of a main ridge, instead of the more common… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Art History, Sculpture | |
| shūen 周縁 | The upper and lower rim on a broad, concave, eave-end tile *nokihiragawara… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| shumon 珠文 | ✓ | A raised bead, nipple or seed motif that became a common part of the decoration on the pendant tiles *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| soben rengemon 素弁蓮華文 | ✓ | A plain, single-petaled, stylized lotus pattern found on the pendant *gatō… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| soben 素弁 | Plain, unembellished flower petals used especially to decorate the pendants *gatō… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| sodemarugawara 袖丸瓦 | ✓ | Also sodegawara 袖瓦, *tonemarugawara 利根丸瓦, tonegawara… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| sokutai 側帯 | Also called wakiku 脇区. The borders on the ends of the pendants *gatō… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| suhama onigawara 州浜鬼瓦 | ✓ | Also written 須浜鬼瓦, also suhamagata onigawara 州浜形鬼瓦 or suhama 州浜. A dumbbell-shaped tile that is bent in… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| sumaru 素丸 | A term used by tile makers and setters instead of *marugawara 丸瓦, meaning a… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| sumi karakusagawara 隅唐草瓦 | Also nokisumigawara 軒隅瓦. Broad concave pendant tiles used at the eave ends of hip rafters *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| sumidomoe 隅巴 | Also called honsumigawara 本隅瓦; sumi tomoegawara 隅巴瓦. A half-round, corner, eave-end, pendant tile; also… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| sumigawara 墨瓦 | ✓ | Also called corner eave tiles, noki-no-sumigawara 軒の隅瓦. A general term for the tiles used at the corner of a… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| sumigi futagawara 隅木蓋瓦 | ✓ | A long, narrow, rectangular tile cover used to protect the edge of a hip rafter from weathering. It is conjectured that… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| sumigisaki gawara 隅木先瓦 | Decorative clay tiles shaped to fit snugly over the crosscut, exposed end of a hip rafter, sumigi daruki 隅木垂木. The… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| sumimendo gawara 隅面戸瓦 | Also sumimendo 隅面戸. A roof tile fillet. An asymmetric fillet positioned below the corner descending ridge *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
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