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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
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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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