| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| jibuki 地葺 | The traditional method of laying or setting tiles on the sheathing *noji 野地 of… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| jūben rengemon 重弁蓮華文 | ✓ | A roof tile style with a lotus pattern with double layered petals. The additional petals are placed between the leaf sprout… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| jūben 重弁 | A layered petal motif with one or more petals superimposed one on top of another. It is found on some pendants *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| jūkenmon 重圏文 | A pattern composed of concentric circles on a pendant *gatō 瓦当 and parallel… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| jūkomon nokihiragawara 重弧文軒平瓦 | ✓ | A pattern of parallel lines decorating the pendant *gatō 瓦当 of a broad,… |
Architecture, 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 | 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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