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; lit. cover space.

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