The Textbook of Architecture

The Cabinet of Models

The kondō of Hōryū-ji

The golden hall of Hōryū-ji: a lower storey of 5 × 4 bays under a hipped skirt, an upper storey of 4 × 3 bays under a hip-and-gable roof, cloud brackets and entasis columns.

The kondō of Hōryū-ji Open in Models ↗

Illustrates: Japanese

The rules it illustrates

Kiwari: size every member from the bay. Fix the bay (the distance between column centres) and derive every other member from it by fixed ratios: the column from the bay, the brackets and beams from the column, the rafters and their spacing from the brackets, the eaves from the rafters.

Where it appears in the book

In the styles Japanese.

In the chapters China, Japan and Korea.

The terms it shows

Irimoya · Mokoshi