Highlights

●Returning to the origin of tile making, we will introduce how to make ancient tiles restored by modern tile carpenter Kiyoichi Yamamoto, including production tools and videos, in an easy-to-understand manner.

●Focusing not only on the design aspects such as the shape and pattern of tiles, but also on the technology of roofing tiles, we will read tiles from the perspective of architecture.

●We will explain technical contents that tend to be difficult in an easy-to-understand manner with large models, videos, and exhibits to be touched.

●On top of the roof, you can see powerful shio (shibi), onigawara with a rich shape, and eaves tiles with various patterns at a height of your eyes.

The tile technology transmitted from Kudara on the Korean Peninsula during the Asuka period has undergone unique changes and developments in line with the Japanese climate. We follow the millennium history while looking at tiles from the Asuka period to the Edo period.

The tiles of Gangoji Temple (6th century, owned by Gangoji Temple)

Asuka period eaves tiles
(Restored Wakakusa temple complex Kondo, Horyuji Temple)

Nara period eaves tiles
(Restored to Toshodaiji Temple Kondo)

Eave tiles from the Kamakura period

The eaves tiles of the Muromachi period

Eave tile of the Edo period

The way of making tiles at the beginning of Asuka period where tiles were transmitted disappeared during the Nara period. This exhibition introduces how to make ancient tiles restored by Mr. Seiichi Yamamoto, who has been studying "ancient tiles that can be actually roofed" from the standpoint of craftsmen for many years. We will explain the series of processes from forming, baking, and completing soil and tiles as raw materials using actual production tools, tiles, and images.

Soil of raw materials (rot, Tado, and mountain soil)

Tools for making tiles (partly)

Processing tools for tiles

Wooden type of eaves flat roof tiles

Wooden type of eaves round tiles

Tools for making eaves flat tiles

The role of tiled roofs is not to leak rain, but to make them last longer. In Japan, where there is a lot of rain, various ideas have been made not only for the roof tiles themselves but also for the roofing method.

The full-size roof model, the full-scale map of the tiled roof drawn by the tiled craftsman, the template and hand tools used when roofing, and the hands-on corner where you can actually roof it, will introduce how the tiles are roofed .

Roof model (real size)

The original picture (partially, Daigokuden, the site of Heijo-gu Shrine)

Tools for measuring the size of tiles

Templates used to build buildings

Tools for roofing tiles (partially)

Tools for sorting tiles

We will exhibit powerful shio, onigawara, and eaves tiles so that you can enjoy the various shapes of tiles.

At the onigawara Corner, we will introduce the types of ancient onigawara, as well as the production tools used by demon masters.

Shibi (restored, full-size) in the Kondo of Toshodaiji Temple

Shibi (a half of the actual size) of Kondo in Kofuku-ji Temple

onigawara (restored) of Todaiji Temple

onigawara (restored) of Yakushi-ji Temple

LIN in onigawara (Yakushi-ji Temple)

onigawara production tools

Takahama City Yakimono no Satokawara Museum Special Exhibition

At the Nagoya venue, an exhibition will be held on the theme of "Sanshu tiles", which is known as a major production area of tiles.

Sanshu tiles are tiles that have been produced in the southern part of the Nishi Mikawa region of Aichi Prefecture since the middle of the Edo period. We will introduce the history of Sanshu tiles and the current generation of tiles making, with exhibition panels and modern tiles and works of Onishi.

Asai Chonosuke (Oniosa) Kamebun onigawara (circa 1930)

Collection: Kawara Museum of Takahama City, a Hometown of Ceramics

A video introducing the work of craftsmen involved in the tiled roof will be screened at the video corner in the venue.

Making 1,000-year Irako-dai tile

[21 minutes / 2017 / Plan: Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum / Production: Wheat Production]
The roof of the Gokurakudo and the Zen room of Gangoji Temple are 1,400-year-old tiles that are still active and continue to protect the building. What kind of person was the craftsman who made such a long-life tile possible? In the main part, we will focus on Seiichi Yamamoto, a modern tile carpenter who continues to challenge the making of ancient tiles, and introduce his work.

Men who challenged the skills of Toshodaiji Temple from Kondo to Tenpyo

[24 minutes / 2011 / Planning / Production: BS-i, TBS-V, TBS i]
The Shibi of the Kondo of Toshodaiji Temple was built in the Tenpyo period in the west and the Kamakura period in the east. Both were severely damaged, and the Heisei Shibi was created in the period of Heisei Great Renovation (1998-2009). However, the technique of making Shibi in the Tenpyo period had already been lost. I would like to introduce the tile master who tried to make the shio.

Daibutsuden Osamu's cover of seven years

[24 minutes / 1980 / Planning and production Asahi Broadcasting]
Records of Showa Univ. repair of the Great Buddha Hall of Todaiji Temple from 1973 to 1980. Since all the tiles in the Great Buddha Hall of Todaiji Temple are large, the weight of the tiles was required to reduce the burden on the building, and a huge onigawara was also newly built. In the way of roofing tiles, it was necessary to devise ways to reduce weight. Introducing the work of the tile craftsman and demon master who challenged the difficult task.