kaki 垣

Also read en; also called kakine 垣根. A generic term for a fence, garden precinct wall, or partition. Some varieties of bamboo take 竹, Japanese bush clover hagi 萩, brush kanboku 潅木, or azalea tsutsuji 躑躅 are used for hedges *ikegaki 生垣. If the fencing material is cut and dried it is referred to as dead material shinigaki 死垣, and can include such things as embedded bamboo posts hottate no take 掘立の竹, posts with bark, or bamboo stake and bamboo reeds takeho 竹穂, as for example at Katsura Rikyū 桂離宮 in Kyoto, specifically known as katsuragaki 桂垣. Long fences are known as *ōgaki 大垣 and short fences as *sodegaki 袖垣. Light fences used to divide a garden are called shikirigaki 仕切垣.