hei　塀
CATEGORY:　architecture / general terms
　
A fence or wall classified according to the materials used to make it: board fence, *itabei 板塀, an earthen fence faced with tiles or one with rows of inserted tiles, kawarabei 瓦塀; stone fence, ishibei 石塀; clay or mud and plaster fence *dobei 土塀 or *tsuiji 築地; tile and clay fence, *neribei 練塀; and many kinds of fences made with bamboo or brush. The names of fences may be derived from the shape and/ or place they are used. For example: vertical cedar bark boards secured by thin, horizontal, bamboo battens, yamatobei 大和塀; horizontal, notched weatherboarding into which vertical bamboo strips are inserted, sasarakobei 簓子塀; a fence that has a comb-shaped inserts, *kushigatabei 櫛形塀. Fences may also be called *kaki 垣. Other type of fence include: the see-through fence sukashibei 透塀, the *genjibei 源氏塀, the picket-board fence sakuitabei 柵板塀.
　
　 　 　
　
*dobei 土塀：
Bitchuu Matsuyamajou 備中松山城 (Okayama)
 　 *neribei 練塀：
zoujouji 増上寺 (Tokyo)
　 　 　
　
*itabei 板塀 (tate-itabei 縦板塀)：
Toukeiji 東慶寺 (Kanagawa)		 　 sukashibei 透塀：
Nikkou Toushouguu 日光東照宮 (Tochigi)
　 　 　
　 　
*take tokusabei 竹木賊塀：
Niijoujou 二条城 (Kyoto)		 　 　

　
REFERENCES:
*tamagaki 玉垣, *mizugaki 瑞垣, *sodegaki 袖垣, *kaki 垣.
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