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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
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
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