Stone-laying roof

Japanese: 石置屋根 - いしおきやね
Stone-laying roof

A roof with stones placed on top of the shingles to prevent them from being blown away by the wind. In Japan, this type of roof is often seen on the roofs of private homes depicted in medieval picture scrolls, and is known to have been in use in Kyoto city in the early Edo period from the Rakuchu Rakugaizu, with some roofs even having the stones tied down with rope to prevent them from rolling off. This type of roof is probably a wisdom from an era when tiles were not yet widespread, when shingles were the most reliable roofing material, and when nails and other materials were not so abundant. Nowadays, it is only used on small buildings in windy mountainous areas, such as mountain huts.

[Yamada Koichi]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

板葺(いたぶ)きの上に石を置いて、板が風で飛ばないようにした屋根のこと。日本では中世の絵巻物に描かれた民家の屋根にしばしばみられ、江戸時代初期の京都市中にもなお用いられていたことが「洛中洛外図(らくちゅうらくがいず)」によって知られており、なかには石が転げ落ちないよう縄で結わえているものもある。このような屋根は、瓦(かわら)がまだ普及せず、板がもっとも信頼できる葺き材料で、しかも釘(くぎ)などがそれほど豊富に使用できなかった時代の生活の知恵であろう。現在では、風の強い山間部の小規模な建物、たとえば山小屋などに用いられるだけである。

[山田幸一]

出典 小学館 日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)について 情報 | 凡例

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