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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
nagamarugawara 長丸瓦

Longer than standard semi-cylindrical roof tiles used as coping tiles *kasagawara…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
nagayamono 長屋物

The smallest of three standard sizes of roof tiles yanegawara 屋根瓦, used during the 17th-19th century. The…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
naiku 内区 ✓

The inner section of the pendant *gatō 瓦当, attached to a semi-…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
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…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
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 *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
noborinoki kakegawara 登軒掛瓦

Lit. "ascending eave hanging tiles." The semi-cylindrical tiles *marugawara…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
nokidomoegawara 軒巴瓦

Also *nokimarugawara 軒丸瓦. A popular name for the semi-cylindrical eave-…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
nokigawara 軒瓦

1 Also written 宇瓦. Eaves-end tiles. Roof tiles placed along an eaves line,…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
nokihiragawara 軒平瓦 ✓

Also *karakusagawara 唐草瓦; *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
nokimarugawara 軒丸瓦 ✓

A semi-cylindrical or half-round eave-end pendant tile. The pendant *gatō 瓦当, is…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
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…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
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…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
ogami karakusagawara 拝唐草瓦 ✓

The roof tiles positioned like hands joined in prayer covering the triangular framework of a Japanese roof structure. Broad…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
ogamidomoe 拝巴

A peak tile. A semi-cylindrical, elongated, barrel-shaped, hanging tile which covers the broad, concave, eave-end tiles *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
ogawara 男瓦

Lit. "male tile." A semi-cylindrical cover tile *marugawara …

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
ogawara 男瓦 ✓

Lit. "male tile." Also written 雄瓦, called *fusegawara 伏瓦, tsutsugawara…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
oni-ita 鬼板

A wooden board or an undecorated tile used in place of ogre face tiles *onigawara鬼瓦 at each…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
onidai 鬼台 ✓

Also called onigawaradai 鬼瓦台, oni-itadai 鬼板台. The base material on the ridge ends of the main roof of…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
onigawara 鬼瓦

Lit. "goblin-tile."

1 The generic name for decorative roof tiles found at the ends of a main 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