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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
tamabuchi 玉縁

Lit. "jewelled edge."

1 The tip on the rear, narrow end of a half-round roof tile *…

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.
The name given to the second of a pair of tiles composed of a semi-cylindrical tile *…

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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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