A visitor's or regent's gate. A type of *yakuimon 薬医門 or *shikyakumon 四脚門 used exclusively by regents, chief advisors to the emperor, and by the Ashikaga 足利 and Tokugawa 徳川 shoguns when they visited the daimyō 大名. The name refers to the gates use, not to a particular style. Such gates were also erected at important temples and at the estates of powerful noblemen. A 1-bay Yakuimon at Zuiganji 瑞巌寺 in Miyagi Prefecture, is an excellent example. Rebuilt by Date Masamune 伊達政宗 (1567-1636) in 1609, it is located in front of the entrance to the Hondō 本堂, formerly the Hōjō 方丈. The roof is hip-and-gable *irimoya yane 入母屋屋根 and the gable pediment is covered with white plaster, unadorned. The wall plate *daiwa 台輪 has an incised scroll-like design *eyō 絵様 and the ceiling is the smoothboard dragon-painted type *kagami tenjō 鏡天井.