| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| megegawara めげ瓦 | Tile fragments used to strengthen earthen kilns and mud fences. |
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| mendogawara 面戸瓦 | ✓ | Filler or gap-fill tiles used to close or plug the openings along the base of the main ridge *… |
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| 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. |
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| mizugaeshi 水返 | A small edge raised slightly to the left of the right edge an eave-end tile *… |
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| mizukami 水上 | Architecture, Roofing Tiles | ||
| mizushimo 水下 | The lower or front end of the barrel part *dō 胴, of a half-round… |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| munegawara 棟瓦 | Also read munagawara. Lit. "ridge tiles." A generic term for the tiles used to cover the apex of the roof.… |
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| munesumigawara 棟隅瓦 | Lit. "tiles at the corners of the ridge." A generic term for the ogre tile *onigawara… |
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| nagamarugawara 長丸瓦 | Longer than standard semi-cylindrical roof tiles used as coping tiles *kasagawara… |
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| nagayamono 長屋物 | The smallest of three standard sizes of roof tiles yanegawara 屋根瓦, used during the 17th-19th century. The… |
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| naiku 内区 | ✓ | The inner section of the pendant *gatō 瓦当, attached to a semi-… |
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| namionigawara 波鬼瓦 | ✓ | An ogre tile with a wave pattern descending from its base to form legs ashimoto 足元, that divide over the gable of… |
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| nindō karakusamon 忍冬唐草文 | ✓ | Also suikazura karakusamon; also nindō karakusa 忍冬唐草. Lit. "honeysuckle arabesque pattern." A pattern used… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| ninohiragawara 二の平瓦 | ✓ | Broad, concave, roof tiles set directly above and slightly back from the broad, concave, pendant tiles *… |
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| noborinoki kakegawara 登軒掛瓦 | Lit. "ascending eave hanging tiles." The semi-cylindrical tiles *marugawara… |
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| nokidomoegawara 軒巴瓦 | Also *nokimarugawara 軒丸瓦. A popular name for the semi-cylindrical eave-… |
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| nokigawara 軒瓦 | 1 Also written 宇瓦. Eaves-end tiles. Roof tiles placed along an eaves line,… |
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| nokihiragawara 軒平瓦 | ✓ | Also *karakusagawara 唐草瓦; *… |
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| nokimarugawara 軒丸瓦 | ✓ | A semi-cylindrical or half-round eave-end pendant tile. The pendant *gatō 瓦当, is… |
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| nokisakigawara 軒先瓦 | Broad concave eave-end tiles used along the edge of the roof eaves of timber dwellings or temples. | Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| noshigawara 熨斗瓦 | ✓ | Also noshizumigawara 熨斗積瓦. The ancient name was *tsutsumigawara… |
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| nunome-gawara 布目瓦 | A generic term for the textured impression found on the underside of a roof tile. The impression is left by the cloth placed… |
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