Ikan - Seikan

Japanese: 井幹 - せいかん

This is a Chinese architectural structure made by stacking timber in a braided structure. It is known that the Well-Gun Tower built by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was a huge tower, 50 zhang in height. The term well-gun appears in the Records of the Grand Historian and the Huainanzi, and a bronze drum from the Late Han period unearthed in Yunnan Province has a diagram of a well-gun structured raised-floor food storehouse, which was apparently noticed by the dynasty in the Central Plains at the time as a new southern technology. Even today, this style can be seen in the dwellings of the Han people and ethnic minorities in Yunnan Province and other areas.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中国建築で木材をせいろう組みに積み重ねてつくる構造をいう。校倉（あぜくら）造。漢の武帝が建てた井幹楼は高さ50丈という高大な楼閣であったことが知られる。井幹の用語は《史記》《淮南子（えなんじ）》などに見え，雲南省から出土した後漢時代の銅鼓には井幹式構造で高床の糧倉の図が描かれており，当時の中原地方の王朝にとっては南方系の新技術として注目されたらしい。今日でも雲南省などの漢族や少数民族の住居にはこの形式が見られる。

出典　株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典第２版について　情報

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