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Lit. a fist nosing.
1 A shaped beam tip *kibana 木鼻, used in the eight legged highgate *Yōmeimon 陽明門 at Nikkō Tōshōgū 日光東照宮, Tochigi Prefecture. The kobushibana are carved as Chinese lions, karashishi 唐獅子.
2 A type of carved end nosing *kibana 木鼻, shaped like a fist and used in Zen style architecture *zenshūyō 禅宗様.
3 The nosing found on a bracket arm *hijiki 肘木.
4 Sometimes used in a broad sense to mean nosing.