_Kaki / Fence
Kaki or Kakine is an architectural element that marks area boundaries, and traditionally bamboo is used in Japan.
Design & Style
Takeho-gaki
Takeho-gaki is made of bundled bomboo twigs instead of tree twigs. Katsuraho-gaki at Katsuara Imperial Village in Kyoto is the archetype of Takeho-gaki.
Shiba-gaki
Shiba-gaki is made of vertically installed tree twigs with horizontal supports keeping them in place. For preservation and aethetic reasons, simple eaves are sometimes installed on the top.
Koetsuji-gaki
Koetsu-gaki is named after Koetsu-ji Temple in Kyoto and made of bundled split bamboos on the top with round bamboos woving diamond shaped lattice framework to allow views through it.
Kennin-ji-gaki
Kennin-ji-gaki is made of halved or quartered bomboos placed vertically without a gap with horizontally placed bamboos keeping everything in place.
Yotsume-gaki
Yotsume-gaki is the simplest type of bamboo fence, whose horizontal and vertical members form rectangular grids.
Gallery
Koetsu-gakiHokoku-ji in Kamakura
Koetsu-gakiJomyo-ji in Kamakura
Koetsu-gakiRyoan-ji in Kamakura
Shiba-gakiGhio-ji in Kyoto
Shiba-gakiKatsura Imperial Palace in Kyoto
Takeho-gakiKatsura Imperial Palace in Kyoto