There Kenji turned right onto a small lane and headed toward an old gate with a woven straw roof.

This tactic often set the building's straw roofs on fire and contributed to panic among enemy troops.

Water drips from the ledges of white hail caught on the straw roofs.

The houses were built on a frame of stakes, with straw roofs.

A shower of sparks flew up into the air as part of the straw roof fell in.

A few houses had once been thatched, and there were great holes in the straw roofs.

It's hard to miss: the complex is one of the few buildings along the shoreline that isn't capped with a straw roof.

This first church was built with stone walls and a straw roof.

Few houses with straw roofs remained after the bombardment.

I lay down on my back, watching the shadows play on the beams of the straw roof.