Taisha-zukuri
Sign in to save{| style="border-collapse:collapse" cellpadding="0" |style="border:1px solid black;"|alt=Kamosu Jinja's honden|x220px |style="border:1px solid black;"|alt=A reconstructed dwelling at Toro|x220px |} Kamosu Jinja's honden and a granary at Toro is an ancient Japanese architectural style and the oldest Shinto shrine architectural style. Named after Izumo Taisha's honden (sanctuary), like Ise Grand Shrine's shinmei-zukuri style it features a bark roof decorated with poles called chigi and katsuogi, plus archaic features like gable-end pillars and a single central pillar (shin no mihashira). The '
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- architectural style
- Subclass of
- Shinto architecture
- Named after
- Izumo Taisha
- Image
- Izumo-taisha 121538651 f69f257ed0 o.jpg
via Wikidata · CC0
~4 min read
Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- History
- Structure
- Gallery
- Notes
- References
{| style="border-collapse:collapse" cellpadding="0" |style="border:1px solid black;"|alt=Kamosu Jinja's honden|x220px |style="border:1px solid black;"|alt=A reconstructed dwelling at Toro|x220px |} Kamosu Jinja's honden and a granary at Toro
is an ancient Japanese architectural style and the oldest Shinto shrine architectural style. Named after Izumo Taisha's honden (sanctuary), like Ise Grand Shrine's shinmei-zukuri style it features a bark roof decorated with poles called chigi and katsuogi, plus archaic features like gable-end pillars and a single central pillar (shin no mihashira). The ''honden's floor is raised above the ground through the use of stilts (see photo). Like the shinmei-zukuri and sumiyoshi-zukuri styles, it predates the arrival of Buddhism in Japan.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Taisha-zukuri” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.