Keywords
Architecture
General Terms
Lit. snake belly ceiling. An open or exposed ceiling composed of curved, parallel rafters, thought to resemble a snake's belly. The ceiling found over the one bay wide aisle *hisashi 廂 across the front of a temple building of the Ōbaku 黄檗 sect, one of the Zen sects of Buddhism. The aisle is open at the front and ends. The curved rafters extend beyond the eave purlin *gagyō 丸桁 to create an eave overhang *noki-no-de 軒の出.
