Hanging nose - Hanging nose

...Their contents also became more varied, with carvings of natural objects such as whirlpools, clouds, and waves, arabesques, peonies, lotus flowers, and other plants, as well as birds, fish, dragons, lions, and elephants. The tendency towards decorativeness intensified in the early modern period, and in the Edo period, lions and elephants were carved out of separate pieces of wood into the wooden nose of the head beam (kashinuki), and dragons were carved into what were originally structural materials such as the tail rafters and tsunagi bridges. Furthermore, the surfaces of pillars, beams, and girders were carved with shallow continuous geometric patterns, and high-profile relief carvings were applied to all wall surfaces. ...

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…その内容も豊富になり，渦や雲，波の自然物，唐草や牡丹，蓮華などの植物のほか，鳥，魚，竜，獅子，象などが刻まれた。装飾化の傾向は近世に入るとさらに強まり，江戸時代には頭貫（かしらぬき）の木鼻は獅子や象を別木でつくって取り付ける懸鼻（かけはな）とし，尾垂木（おだるき）や繫（つなぎ）虹梁など本来構造材であるものを丸彫の竜として装飾化することも行われた。さらに，柱，梁，桁などの表面に連続幾何学模様を浅く刻む地紋彫を施したり，あらゆる壁面に高肉の浮彫彫刻をつけるものも現れた。…

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