Also called saidō 斎堂. A refectory. An independent building on temple grounds where priests and monks had their meals. Only a few are extant today. Compared to the main halls for housing images and worshipers, jikidō are quite utilitarian and simple. The structures vary in size from period to period: Hōdōji 宝塔寺 Jikidō (Kamakura period, Kyoto) is 7 x 3 bays (14.89 x 5.45 m); Kongōji 金剛寺 Jikidō (Muromachi period, Osaka) 16.98 × 7.28 m; and Hōryūji 法隆寺 Jikidō (Nara period, Nara), is 7 × 4 bays (20.71 × 9.44 m) with the entrance on the gable end. Onjōji 園城寺 Jikidō (1573-1591, Shiga prefecture), is 15 x 4 bays, (38.69 x 10.22 m), with a complete second story. Enkyōji 円教寺, in Hyōgo Prefecture has a Jikidō with a high railing around the second floor. Most of these buildings have hip-and-gable roofs, covered with tile *hongawarabuki 本瓦葺, although the Jikidō at Hōryūji has a gable roof *kirizuma-zukuri 切妻造. Only the Jikidō at Onjōji is roofed with cypress bark *hiwadabuki 桧皮葺. Onjōji Jikidō has a veranda at the front and on both sides. Over the entrance there is an undulating gable *karahafu 唐破風. Together these features give the building the flavor of a residence. All have closely set rafters *shigedaruki 繁垂木. The Jikidō at Hōryūji, Hōdōji, and Kongōji have double eaves *futanoki 二軒, but at Onjōji and Enkyōji the eaves are single *hitonoki 一軒. The bracket complexes are relatively simple: Hōryūji has large bearing blocks and bracket arms, *daito hijiki 大斗肘木, Hōdōji and Kongōji have 3-on-1 at right angles to each other *demitsudo 出三斗. Onjōji has boat-shaped bracket arms *funahijiki 舟肘木; at Enkyōji the ground floor under the railing has 3-stepped bracket complexes *mitesaki tokyō 三手先斗きょう in the daibutsu style *daibutsuyō 大仏様, but the upper floor has two-stepped bracket complexes *futatesakigumi 二手先組 with struts capped with bearing blocks *kentozuka 間斗束, in the interstices *nakazonae 中備. The interstices between bracket complexes of the Jikidō at Hōdōji, Kongōji, and Onjōji have bearing blocks.