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[2] [1] Kumiko panels slot together and remain in place through pressure alone, and that pressure is achieved through meticulously calculating, cutting, and arranging interweaving joints. The end-result is a complex pattern that is used primarily in the creation of shoji doors and screens. [3] Traditionally, the wood of choice was the hinoki ...
A tatami room surrounded by paper shoji (paper outside, lattice inside). The shoji are surrounded by an engawa (porch/corridor); the engawa is surrounded by garasu-do, all-glass sliding panels. A shoji (障 しょう 子 じ, Japanese pronunciation: [ɕo: (d)ʑi]) is a door, window or room divider used in traditional Japanese architecture ...
Disordered piling. Disordered piling (乱石積, ransekizumi) is a Japanese wall -building technique consisting of large number of small stones packed tightly together. [1] It was used in some Japanese castle walls to create a wall that was difficult to climb. As it became more sophisticated it evolved into a technique known as burdock piling. [2]
Burdock piling (牛蒡積み, gobouzumi) is an advanced Japanese technique for building stone walls, named after the resemblance of the rough stones used to the ovate shapes of the blossoms of Japanese burdock plants. [1][2] It was used to build ishi gaki (石垣), sloped stone walls which make up the foundations of many Japanese castles, such ...
A variant of the hijiki (肘木) or timu (替木) is the hana-hijiki (花肘木), composed by either one or two horizontal series bearing blocks standing over an elaborately carved floral pattern. Renzigong or Warizuka. The 人-shaped dougong (Chinese: 人字栱) warizuka (割束) strut consists of a wooden inverted V topped by a bearing block.
Fusuma. Kin-busuma (golden fusuma) In Japanese architecture, fusuma (襖) are vertical rectangular panels which can slide from side to side to redefine spaces within a room, or act as doors. [1] They typically measure about 90 cm (2 ft 11 in) wide by 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) tall, the same size as a tatami mat, and are 2–3 cm (0.79–1.18 in) thick.
Kanna. Japanese plane (鉋, kanna), is most commonly a wooden block, or dai (台) containing a laminated blade, sub-blade, and securing pin. In the Japanese plane, the blade is fixed in position primarily by the plane's abutments that are cut in the sides of the dai. This is similar to a still manufactured type of European wooden plane, in ...
Description. It is characterized by the use of a building just 1x1 ken in size with the entrance on the gabled end covered by a veranda. [1] [2] In Kasuga Taisha's case, the honden is just 1.9 m x 2.6 m. [3] Supporting structures are painted vermilion, while the plank walls are white. [3] It has a tsumairi (also called tsumairi-zukuri) (妻入 ...