Keywords
Architecture
Decorations
Also warabide. A style of ornamentation which features a curved design based on curling bracken shoots. It is found on the lower rim of bargeboard decorations *gegyo 懸魚 on the coping *kasagi 笠木 of railings *kōran 高欄 in the Zen style *zenshūyō 禅宗様; on the end of the ridge of a palanquin *mikoshi 神輿; on stone lanterns ishidōrō 石灯籠; and on the hilt of a sword tachi 太刀.
*tōrō 灯籠