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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…

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

The barrel part *dō 胴, of a half-round roofing tile *…

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
saiben rengemon 細弁蓮華文

Lit. "narrow petal lotus motif." A motif with as many as twelve or sixteen narrow petals found on some circular pendant…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
sangawara 桟瓦 ✓ A pantile that combines a broad concave tile *hiragawara 平瓦 and a semi-cylindrical… Architecture, Roofing Tiles
sangawarabuki 桟瓦葺 ✓

Also called jigawara 地瓦 because it is a base tile; and kanryakugawara 簡略瓦 because it combines a broad…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
sankoshomon 三鈷杵文

Lit. "three-prong pounder motif." Also called *kongōsho 金剛杵 (vajra pounder,…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
sansaiyū gawara 三彩釉瓦

Roof tiles glazed with more than two colors included various tones of brown, yellow and green which were the most commonly…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
shikigawara 敷瓦

1 Also written 甃. Also called *shikihiragawara 敷平瓦, shikihira…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
shikihiragawara 敷平瓦 ✓

Also nokishikigawara 軒敷瓦. An under-tile. A broad, concave tile laid underneath a broad concave eave-end pendant…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
shimotai 下帯

Also pronounced getai. The lower, flat or slanted part of the rim on a broad, concave eave-end tile *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
shioyakigawara 塩焼瓦

Lit. "salt glazed tile." A process used to frost-proof roofing tiles. A small quantity of salt is thrown on to the…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
shishiguchi 獅子口

1 Lit. "lion-mouth tile." An ornamental tile placed on each end of a main ridge, instead of the more common…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Art History, Sculpture
shūen 周縁

The upper and lower rim on a broad, concave, eave-end tile *nokihiragawara…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
shumon 珠文 ✓

A raised bead, nipple or seed motif that became a common part of the decoration on the pendant tiles *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
soben rengemon 素弁蓮華文 ✓

A plain, single-petaled, stylized lotus pattern found on the pendant *gatō…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
soben 素弁

Plain, unembellished flower petals used especially to decorate the pendants *gatō…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
sodemarugawara 袖丸瓦 ✓

Also sodegawara 袖瓦, *tonemarugawara 利根丸瓦, tonegawara…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
sokutai 側帯

Also called wakiku 脇区. The borders on the ends of the pendants *gatō…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
suhama onigawara 州浜鬼瓦 ✓

Also written 須浜鬼瓦, also suhamagata onigawara 州浜形鬼瓦 or suhama 州浜. A dumbbell-shaped tile that is bent in…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
sumaru 素丸

A term used by tile makers and setters instead of *marugawara 丸瓦, meaning a…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
sumi karakusagawara 隅唐草瓦

Also nokisumigawara 軒隅瓦. Broad concave pendant tiles used at the eave ends of hip rafters *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
sumidomoe 隅巴

Also called honsumigawara 本隅瓦; sumi tomoegawara 隅巴瓦. A half-round, corner, eave-end, pendant tile; also…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
sumigawara 墨瓦 ✓

Also called corner eave tiles, noki-no-sumigawara 軒の隅瓦. A general term for the tiles used at the corner of a…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
sumigi futagawara 隅木蓋瓦 ✓

A long, narrow, rectangular tile cover used to protect the edge of a hip rafter from weathering. It is conjectured that…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
sumigisaki gawara 隅木先瓦

Decorative clay tiles shaped to fit snugly over the crosscut, exposed end of a hip rafter, sumigi daruki 隅木垂木. The…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
sumimendo gawara 隅面戸瓦

Also sumimendo 隅面戸. A roof tile fillet. An asymmetric fillet positioned below the corner descending 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