Azekura-zukuri

Japanese: 校倉造 - あぜくらづくり

This is an architectural style reminiscent of a storehouse, in which horizontal timbers with triangular cross sections are stacked in a cage pattern to form the walls. The corners of the horizontal timbers form the exterior walls, and the flat parts form the interior walls, so the ends of the walls have a sawtooth shape. In Japan, this style was built in various places as storehouses for provincial capitals and temples from the Nara period to the early Heian period, but there are few examples since then. Remains from the Nara period include the Shosoin Treasure House, the Todaiji Temple Honbo Sutra Storehouse, and the Treasure House and Sutra Storehouse of Toshodaiji Temple.

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Japanese:

断面が三角形となる横材を井籠 (せいろう) 組に積上げて壁体とした校倉風の建築様式。横材の稜角部が外壁に，平面部が内壁になり，したがって壁体の木口は鋸歯状となる。日本では奈良時代から平安時代初期にかけて，国府，寺院の倉の様式として各地に建築されたが，それ以後は例が少い。奈良時代の遺構として，正倉院宝庫，東大寺本坊経庫，唐招提寺の宝蔵，経蔵などがある。

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