| 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 | |
| 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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