The timber pagoda
A multi-storey pagoda: storeys diminishing upwards, deep eaves on bracket sets, a central pillar and a bronze spire of nine rings.
The rules it illustrates
Diminish the pagoda upward. Make each storey of a pagoda narrower than the one below and derive all from the bay of the first storey; in the oldest Japanese pagodas the top storey is about half as wide as the first.
The central pillar stands free. Run a single great pillar up the centre of the pagoda to carry the spire, but do not let the storeys rest on it: each storey stands on its own frame, stacked around the pillar.
Where it appears in the book
In the styles Korean, Japanese.
In the chapters China, Japan and Korea.