shikii　敷居
CATEGORY:　architecture / general terms
　
Also formerly called shikimi 閾; also called shiki 敷, shikiri しきり or shikige しきげ. A threshold.
　
　
1　A long square timber laid between the pillars *hashira 柱 of a gate *mon 門. If this timber is removable, it is called *kehanashi 蹴放.
　
Kubo Hachiman Jinguu Shinmon 窪八幡神門 (Yamanashi)
　
2　Shikii or shikimi also refer to an obsolete shoe-scraping block or stone *kutsuzuri 沓摺, set in front of the entrance to a gate or dwelling.
　
3　A threshold with grooves for sliding doors, opaque sliding screens *fusuma 襖 or a translucent sliding screen *shouji 障子.
　
　
Old Anzai 安西 house (Chiba)
　
　

　
REFERENCES:
*nakashikii 中敷居, *mume shikii 無目敷居, *usushikii 薄敷居
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