tamagaki
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thumb|A shrine surrounded by a tamagaki A is a fence surrounding a Japanese Shinto shrine, a sacred area or an imperial palace. Believed to have been initially just a brushwood barrier of trees, tamagaki have since been made of a variety of materials including wood, stone and—in recent years—concrete. Depending on the material and technique utilized, such fences have a variety of names: made of roughly finished thick boards, made of unpeeled or unstripped boards or logs, , and , , made of vertically set thin strips of bamboo or wood, The simple fences of ancient and medieval times became
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It is catalogued under topics including Architecture in Japan, Fences and Shinto architecture.
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- Shinto shrine
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thumb|A shrine surrounded by a tamagaki A is a fence surrounding a Japanese Shinto shrine, a sacred area or an imperial palace. Believed to have been initially just a brushwood barrier of trees, tamagaki have since been made of a variety of materials including wood, stone and—in recent years—concrete. Depending on the material and technique utilized, such fences have a variety of names: made of roughly finished thick boards, made of unpeeled or unstripped boards or logs, , and , , made of vertically set thin strips of bamboo or wood,
The simple fences of ancient and medieval times became more elaborate in pre-modern Japan with the addition of roofs, wainscoting and grilles between posts. An example is the 1636 around the main sanctuary of Nikkō Tōshō-gū.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tamagaki” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.