hanagawara　花瓦

KEY WORD :　architecture / roofing tiles

Also hashigawara 端瓦. Lit. flower tile. An edge or border tile originally, the word came to replace the more difficult term *abumigawara 鎧瓦 which in the 7c-12c was usually decorated with a stylized lotus flower pattern *rengemon 蓮華文. The WAMYOU RUIJUSHOU 倭名類聚鈔 (10c), a kind of dictionary, included hanagawara, and hashigawara (end or edge tile), a term with a similar meaning. By the late Heian period, a comma pattern *tomoemon 巴文 came to be preferred over the lotus pattern and it is possible from that time on the terms hanagawara and hashigawara were gradually superceded by *tomoegawara 巴瓦. In the 7c〜12c, hanagawara and hashigawara became interchangeable and were also applied to the broad concave eave-end pendant tile *nokihiragawara 軒平瓦.

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*gatou 瓦当, *kawara 瓦.

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