Wooden door - Itatobira

Japanese: 板扉 - いたとびら

...In the Zen style, the perimeter is made up of a decorative attic, and the center is made up of a mirror ceiling with no latticework on the underside.
[Entrances, fittings, transoms]
Until the Nara period, Japanese-style fixtures were wooden doors, but from the Heian period onwards, Shitomido and Mairado doors, which were adopted from residential buildings, came to be used. Sankarato doors were used in the Daibutsu and Zen styles.

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In the Heian period Wamyōshō, a distinction was made between doors and doors based on the type of building they were used in, with doors being those found in halls and doors being those found in gates, but today, a rotating hinged door is called a door, as opposed to a sliding door, and the two are usually distinguished based on the difference in mechanism. The so-called rotating door style is older, and includes the ita door (Figure 1) and the sankarado (Figure 2). Ita doors are flat-surfaced doors that have been used in Japanese-style architecture since the Nara period, and are made by joining two or three boards vertically, although there are rare cases where they are made from a single board, such as in the Golden Hall of Horyu-ji Temple.

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "board doors" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…禅宗様では周囲を化粧屋根裏とし，中央は下面に桟を出さない鏡天井とする。
［出入口，建具，欄間］
　和様の建具は奈良時代までは板扉で，平安時代以後は住宅からとり入れた蔀戸（しとみど）や舞良戸（まいらど）も使われるようになる。大仏様と禅宗様では桟唐戸（さんからと）が使われた。…

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　平安時代の《和名抄》では，戸は屋堂にあるもの，扉は門にあるものとし，用いられる建物の種類によって戸と扉を区別しているが，現在では引戸に対して回転式の開き戸を扉といい，機構による違いによって両者を区別するのが普通である。回転式のいわゆる扉の形式が古く，これには〈板扉〉(図1)と〈桟唐戸（さんからど）〉(図2)とがある。板扉は奈良時代以来，和様建築に用いられた表面の平らな扉で，2,3枚の板を縦に矧（は）いで作るが，まれに法隆寺金堂のように一枚板で作る例もある。…

※「板扉」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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