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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
tamabuchi 玉縁

Lit. "jewelled edge."

1 The tip on the rear, narrow end of a half-round roof tile *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Gardens
tanben 単弁

A decorative motif used on the roof of a Japanese building. It consisted of a series of single petals with one leaf seedling…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
tanben rengemon 単弁蓮華文 ✓

A stylized lotus flower motif with eight petals. Although it is a relatively simple arrangement, unlike the *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
tani 谷

The valley or trough that forms when two sloping roofs meet.

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
tanigawara 谷瓦

1 A generic term for roof tiles used in the valley of a roof. Valleys are formed when the ridges of two…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
tanimendo 谷面戸

Also called *mendo 面戸. The gap along both sides of the valley *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
tarukisaki gawara 垂木先瓦

A rafter pendant tile. A small tile formed to fit the shape of the cut end of a rafter *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
tomebutagawara 留蓋瓦 ✓

Also called tomebuta 留蓋; amabutagawara 雨蓋瓦; sumibutagawara 隅蓋瓦. A cover tile, usually…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
tomoegawara 巴瓦 ✓

Also nokitomoe 軒巴, *nokidomoegawara 軒巴瓦. A very…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
tomoemon 巴文

1 Also tomoe 巴. A pattern of one or more curled tadpole shapes inside a circle. The pattern is…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Painting, Art History
tonehiragawara 利根平瓦

Also tonehira 利根平, 刀根平.
The name given to the second of a pair of tiles composed of a semi-cylindrical tile *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
tonemarugawara 利根丸瓦

Also called tonemaru 利根丸, 刀根丸, onigiwa marugawara 鬼際丸瓦. This occurs when there is a drooping verge *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
toribusuma 鳥衾 ✓

Also written 鳥伏間. Also called toriyasumi 鳥休 (bird rest) or suzumegawara 雀瓦. A cylindrical bird perch tile…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
tsutsugata 筒形

A barrel shape or cylindrical shape. Example: *marugawara 丸瓦…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
tsutsumigawara 包み瓦

Also called *fusumagawara 伏間瓦. Lit. "dike tile." A slightly…

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