Also called shikoroyane 錣屋根. A method of constructing a hip-and-gable roof on separate planes. The gable is constructed so that the front and rear parts clearly end like eaves, over-hanging the independently roofed hips. Thus, there is no continuous roof line flow. The earliest extant example is the Tamamushi miniature shrine *Tamamushi no zushi 玉虫厨子 owned by Hōryūji 法隆寺 (mid-7th century) in Nara. During the Edo period, a type of shikorobuki was constructed by covering the core of the building with a gable roof and then adding broad aisles or a corridor *hisashi 廂 around the core and covering this separately with pent roofs. Some buildings had the gable part thatched and the hips covered with tile. Other buildings used two separate layers of thatch of differing thicknesses. The latter two methods were used on vernacular dwellings *minka 民家. During the Edo period, some main halls *hondō 本堂 and the kitchen buildings *kuri 庫裡 in large Zen-style temples *zenshūyō 禅宗様, were roofed with shikorobuki. Example: The original structure of Zuiganji Kuri 瑞巖寺庫裡 (1609), Miyagi Prefecture.
