douzashi 　胴差

KEY WORD :　architecture / general terms

A large, heavy horizontal timber attached to the tops of posts *hashira 柱 across bays *ken 間 to receive one or more transverse beams nikaibari 二階梁 which form the base of a second story in a two-story building.

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