shimaki 島木

Keywords
Architecture
Shrines

1 The secondary or collateral lintel placed against the underside of the top lintel *kasagi 笠木 of an entrance gate to a Shinto shrine *torii 鳥居. It is found especially on *myōjin torii 明神鳥居. The ends are either straight cut or cut with an inward slant. In section they are normally shaped like a reversed trapezoid.

2 The mullion which separates two horizontally latticed windows hagiage renji 剥上連子.