Keywords
Architecture
General Terms
A generic term for all the parts that compose aneave including: rafters, *taruki 垂木; flying rafters, *hien daruki 飛檐垂木; flying rafter supports, *kioi 木負; eave supports, *kayaoi 茅負; eave filler, *uragō 裏甲; and tile seat, *kawaraza 瓦座. Nokimawari also refers to various types of eaves including single eaves, *hitonoki 一軒, and double eaves, *futanoki 二軒. It is also applied to the terms for closely spaced rafters, *shigedaruki 繁垂木, and widely spaced rafters, *mabaradaruki 疎垂木. Rafters that fan out are called *ōgidaruki 扇垂木, and those with the orderly arrangement of six rafters distributed over three small bearing blocks, *makito 巻斗, are called rokushigake 六枝掛.