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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
ogami karakusagawara 拝唐草瓦 ✓

The roof tiles positioned like hands joined in prayer covering the triangular framework of a Japanese roof structure. Broad…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
ogamidomoe 拝巴

A peak tile. A semi-cylindrical, elongated, barrel-shaped, hanging tile which covers the broad, concave, eave-end tiles *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
ogawara 男瓦 ✓

Lit. "male tile." Also written 雄瓦, called *fusegawara 伏瓦, tsutsugawara…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
ogawara 男瓦

Lit. "male tile." A semi-cylindrical cover tile *marugawara …

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
oni-ita 鬼板

A wooden board or an undecorated tile used in place of ogre face tiles *onigawara鬼瓦 at each…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
onidai 鬼台 ✓

Also called onigawaradai 鬼瓦台, oni-itadai 鬼板台. The base material on the ridge ends of the main roof of…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
onigawara 鬼瓦

Lit. "goblin-tile."

1 The generic name for decorative roof tiles found at the ends of a main 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