fusumagawara　伏間瓦

KEY WORD :　architecture / roofing tiles

Also written 衾瓦; also called *kanmurigawara 冠瓦 or *ganburigawara 雁振瓦. Coping tiles that create a finish to the stacked tiles *noshigawara 熨斗瓦, piled on the ridge. Coping tiles are also used on top of stacked tiles on corner ridges *sumikudarimune 隅降棟, and the short offspring ridge *chigomune 稚児棟, or on descending ridges *kudarimune 降棟. The characters 衾瓦, were used in the Muromachi period because the form of the tiles was thought to resemble the shape of a quilt spread over Japanese style bedding futon 蒲団, or bedclothes yagu 夜具. However, this complicated character was eventually dropped and replaced by two relatively simple ones, also read fusuma 伏間 (cover space).

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