Inner Tamagaki

Japanese: 内玉垣 - うちたまがき
Inner Tamagaki

… The oldest style of wooden fence in Japan can be seen around the temples of Ise Grand Shrine. The innermost is a mizugaki made of thick planks lined up closely together, followed by an inner tamagaki made of timber arranged in a fence-like shape, then an outer tamagaki made of logs arranged in a fence-like shape, and finally an itagaki, which is a wooden fence. Mizugaki, made of thick planks with triangular pointed ends arranged closely together, was used at Kasuga Taisha Shrine and is also often depicted in medieval picture scrolls, so it is thought to have been very common in ancient shrines. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Uchi Tamagaki" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… 日本における木造の垣の古い形式は,伊勢神宮の神殿の周囲に見られる。最も内側にあるのは,厚板を密に縦に並べた〈瑞垣(みずがき)〉,つぎは角材を柵状に組んだ〈内玉垣〉,さらに丸太を柵状に組んだ〈外玉垣〉があり,最も外側に板塀状の〈板垣〉がある。先端を三角形にとがらせた厚板を密に縦に並べた瑞垣は,春日大社などで用いられ,また中世の絵巻物にも多く描かれているので,古い時代の神社では非常に多く用いられたと考えられる。…

※「内玉垣」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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