TERRA-COTTA ROOFING-TILES. 



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normal type being used in Japan over a thousand years 

 ago ; whether made in Japan or imported is not known. 

 Ninagawa figures in his work on Japanese pottery frag- 

 ments of what he considered the first glazed pottery made in 

 Japan, and these show a green glaze. 



FIG. 30. 



In the following figures are shown, by way of compari- 

 son, a Japanese (Nagasaki) tiled roof (fig. 31) and the 

 roof of the Temple of Hera, at Olympia (tig. 32), as re- 

 stored by Graeber. The terminal ridge-tile, the imbrex 

 closed by a circular disc (not, however, represented in 

 fig. 31), the plain tegula at the eaves with simple margin, 



FIG. 31. FIG. 32. 



present striking resemblances between roofs separated by 

 nearly three thousand years in time and thousands of miles 

 in space. (For further information regarding tiled roofs 

 in Japan see Morse's Japanese Homes and their Surround- 

 ings.} 



