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... 11 KB (1,380 words) - 05:11, 12 March 2024 |
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... 7 KB (735 words) - 21:22, 29 January 2024 |
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... 28 KB (3,089 words) - 20:35, 4 November 2023 |