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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
renben 蓮弁

Lit. "lotus petal."
1 A pendant *gatō 瓦当, found on semi-…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Art History, Sculpture
renji 蓮子

Raised dots or bead-like forms that represent the seeds in a stylized lotus flower pattern decorating many pendant tiles *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
rurigawara 瑠璃瓦

Lit. "lapis lazuli tile." A tile to which a blue glaze ruriyū 瑠璃釉 has been applied. The glaze is made from…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
ryokuyūgawara 緑釉瓦

Lit. "green-glazed roof tiles." A decorative green glaze is applied to the pendants *gatō…

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