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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
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." Also written 雄瓦, called *fusegawara 伏瓦, tsutsugawara…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
ogawara 男瓦

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

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
renben 蓮弁

Lit. "lotus petal."
1 A pendant *gatō 瓦当, found on semi-…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles, Art History, Sculpture
renji 蓮子

Raised dots or bead-like forms that represent the seeds in a stylized lotus flower pattern decorating many pendant tiles *…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
rurigawara 瑠璃瓦

Lit. "lapis lazuli tile." A tile to which a blue glaze ruriyū 瑠璃釉 has been applied. The glaze is made from…

Architecture, Roofing Tiles
ryokuyūgawara 緑釉瓦

Lit. "green-glazed roof tiles." A decorative green glaze is applied to the pendants *gatō…

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