Keywords
Architecture
General Terms
Also read omobashira; in the case of gates it may be called *monbashira 門柱.
1 Posts or pillars, especially those in line with the doors on gates, for example, the main pillars of a gate called *kabukimon 冠木門. Honbashira also included the pillars of *torii 鳥居; the outer posts on the side verandas on shrines *wakishōji 脇障子; the pillars along the outer perimeter of the front aisle *hisashi 廂 of a temple building; and the front pillars of small shrines. See *heijūmon 塀重門.
2 Honbashira can also mean the primary pillars that frame a shrine or temple building.
