| 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 | 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 | |
| tamabuchi 玉縁 | Lit. "jewelled edge." |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Gardens | |
| tanben 単弁 | A decorative motif used on the roof of a Japanese building. It consisted of a series of single petals with one leaf seedling… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| tanben rengemon 単弁蓮華文 | ✓ | A stylized lotus flower motif with eight petals. Although it is a relatively simple arrangement, unlike the *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| tani 谷 | The valley or trough that forms when two sloping roofs meet. |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| tanigawara 谷瓦 | 1 A generic term for roof tiles used in the valley of a roof. Valleys are formed when the ridges of two… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| tanimendo 谷面戸 | Also called *mendo 面戸. The gap along both sides of the valley *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| tarukisaki gawara 垂木先瓦 | A rafter pendant tile. A small tile formed to fit the shape of the cut end of a rafter *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| tomebutagawara 留蓋瓦 | ✓ | Also called tomebuta 留蓋; amabutagawara 雨蓋瓦; sumibutagawara 隅蓋瓦. A cover tile, usually… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| tomoegawara 巴瓦 | ✓ | Also nokitomoe 軒巴, *nokidomoegawara 軒巴瓦. A very… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| tomoemon 巴文 | 1 Also tomoe 巴. A pattern of one or more curled tadpole shapes inside a circle. The pattern is… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Painting, Art History | |
| tonehiragawara 利根平瓦 | Also tonehira 利根平, 刀根平. |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| tonemarugawara 利根丸瓦 | Also called tonemaru 利根丸, 刀根丸, onigiwa marugawara 鬼際丸瓦. This occurs when there is a drooping verge *… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| toribusuma 鳥衾 | ✓ | Also written 鳥伏間. Also called toriyasumi 鳥休 (bird rest) or suzumegawara 雀瓦. A cylindrical bird perch tile… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
| tsutsugata 筒形 | A barrel shape or cylindrical shape. Example: *marugawara 丸瓦… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles | |
| tsutsumigawara 包み瓦 | Also called *fusumagawara 伏間瓦. Lit. "dike tile." A slightly… |
Architecture, Roofing Tiles |
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