Keywords
Architecture
General Terms
1 The process of working on timber to create the desired structural element. See *kirikumi 切組.
2 Traditionally used in garden terminology to refer to shaping and pruning. In volume one of the *Tsukiyama teizōen 築山庭造伝 (1829) is a section entitled Kizukuri no koto, translated as "On the Pruning of Trees".