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It is raised above the level of the ceiling through use of the dougong (斗栱) structure, which, through interlocking structural members, as beams were...

Tokyō (斗栱・斗拱, more often 斗きょう) (also called kumimono (組物) or masugumi (斗組)) is a system of supporting blocks (斗 or 大斗, masu or daito, lit. block or big...

that support the deep eaves of the roof are "cloud-shaped" (kumo tokyō (雲斗栱, lit. cloud tokyō)), a type found only in the earliest buildings to survive...

first storey Eaves and corbel brackets made to imitate wooden structure (出檐和仿木斗栱) Lower Storeys Storeys one through four with intact niche sculpture visible...