Keywords
Architecture
General Terms
1 A splice, fish plate, splint or brace. Timber strips attached to principal pillars to stabilize or reinforce them. Example: the vertical splints used on the central pillars *shinbashira 心柱 of pagodas.
2 The planting of a tree just the right distance from a tea ceremony house so that a tablet with the name of the tea ceremony house can be seen through the branches.