hafu 破風

Also written 搏風. Also called hafu-ita 破風板. A bargeboard. Straight or curved boards laid flat against the ridge ends and purlin ends on the gable sides of a building. They are finishing members in the gables of gabled roofs, *kirizuma yane 切妻屋根, or hip-and-gable roofs, *irimoya yane 入母屋屋根. They form a triangular space called the gable pediment, tsumagawa 妻側. The apex formed by the joining of two bargeboards are called *hafu ogami 破風拝. The bottom of each bargeboard is called *hafū kojiri 破風木尻. The middle part is called koshi 腰, meaning hip, waist, or haunch.