The hidden roof (野屋根, noyane) is a type of roof widely used in Japan both at Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. It is composed of a true roof above...

the roof into two parts running towards each other at an obtuse angle. Karahafu: A type of gable found in some traditional Japanese buildings. Hidden roof:...

introduced on the market with hidden rain gutters during the 1980s, and by 1990, cars with external rain gutters were becoming rare. Roof rack suppliers developed...

the roof allows for more thermal expansion than fastener strip standing seam metal roofs. The fasteners and clips are both hidden under the metal roof sheets...

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style, seen later on in the Kamakura period. This style utilizes the "hidden roof" innovation. Zenshūyō style temples, such as Tō-ji, are characterized...

were necessary to help support the roof; however, at the end of the 10th century the invention of the hidden roof made them superfluous. They remained...

plump, and overconfident man who lives in a small house hidden behind a chimney on the roof of "a very ordinary apartment building on a very ordinary...

called hinoki were used for roofs. It was sometime during this period that the hidden roof, a uniquely Japanese solution to roof drainage problems, was adopted...

innovations is the roof, covered in wood shingles rather than tiles, as in China. Also, Zen temple buildings have a so-called "hidden roof" structure, consisting...