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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
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