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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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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