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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