Rikyūgaki 利休垣

Keywords
Architecture
Gardens

A fence made of bamboo stakes that alternate with unpeeled wooden stakes. The bamboo and unpeeled stakes have the same diameter and are inserted into the ground. Four horizontal battens are attached to the stakes about 15 cm apart with the first and third placed on the outer side of the fence and the second and fourth placed on the reverse side. Cord is used only to tie every two stakes to the second and fourth battens on the inside of the fence. The standard height of this fence is about 1.7 m.