hafu　破風

KEY WORD :　architecture / general terms

Also written 搏風. Also called hafu-ita 破風板. A bargeboard. Straight or curved boards laid flat against the ridge ends and purlin ends on the gable sides of a building. They are finishing members in the gables of gable roof *kirizuma yane 切妻屋根 or hip-and-gable roof *irimoya yane 入母屋屋根. They form a triangular space called the gable pediment tsumagawa 妻側. The apex formed by the joining of two bargeboards are called *hafuogami 破風拝. The bottoms of each bargeboard is called *hafu kojiri 破風木尻. The middle part is called koshi 腰 meaning hip, waist or haunch.

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*karahafu 唐破風, *chidori hafu 千鳥破風, *sugaruhafu 縋破風, *irimoya hafu 入母屋破風, *chigi 千木, *aori hafu 障泥破風

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