koshinageshi　腰長押

KEY WORD :　architecture / general terms

An horizontal nonpenetrating tie beam *nageshi 長押 positioned below the central part of a wall, often below the windows in a temple or shrine building. However, in a formal shoin style room *shoin 書院 it was an ornamental dado cap without structural purpose.

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