shimaki 島木
KEY WORD : architecture / shrines
 
1 The secondary or collateral lintel placed against the underside of the top lintel *kasagi 笠木, of an entrance gate to a Shinto shrine *torii 鳥居. It is found especially on *myoujin torii 明神鳥居. The ends are either straight cut or cut with an inward slant. In section they are normally shaped like a reversed trapezoid.

2 The mullion which separates two horizontally latticed windows hagiage renji 剥上連子.
 
 

 
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