hiramon 平門

Also read hirakado. A simple gate set between two posts. The gate may have a very low pitched roof covered either with wooden planks or rough cypress bark shingles, or it may have only a beam set into the tops of the post. It appeared in records in the late Heian period. Exactly where it was placed in relation to the formal main gate *shikyakumon 四脚門, and the high-ridged, gate called *munamon 棟門 is obscure.