Glossary

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Architectural, religious and cultural-property terms used across this site.

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  • Hōgyō-zukuri 宝形造

    A pyramidal roof in which four slopes meet at a single point, with no ridge, used on halls and towers of roughly square plan.

  • Hiwadabuki 檜皮葺

    A roof laid from thin layers of cypress bark, flexible enough to follow curved surfaces and long used on shrine halls and reception buildings.

  • Hongawarabuki 本瓦葺

    A tiled roof laid with flat pan tiles and half-round cap tiles alternating, heavier than pantiling and used on temples, shrines and buildings of standing.

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  • Irimoya-zukuri 入母屋造

    A roof that is gabled above and hipped below, so the triangular gable appears only in the upper part while the eaves run round all four sides beneath it.

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  • Kirizuma-zukuri 切妻造

    A roof that slopes in two directions from a single ridge, closing each end of the building with a triangular gable.

  • Kokerabuki 柿葺

    A roof of thin split wooden shingles laid in overlapping layers, lighter in effect than cypress bark and used on shrine halls and tea-influenced buildings.

  • Kayabuki 茅葺

    A roof of thickly layered grasses such as miscanthus or reed, so demanding to maintain that many surviving examples are recorded as covered provisionally with sheet metal.

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  • Maneki-yane 招屋根

    A roof with the ridge set off-centre so that one slope is short and the other long, common on small ancillary buildings and recorded under more than one name.

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  • Sangawara-buki 桟瓦葺

    A tiled roof laid with wave-profiled pantiles, lighter than the round-and-flat tiling it replaced and widespread on townhouses and ancillary buildings from the early modern period onward.

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