East Asian hip-and-gable roof

A hip-and-gable roof

In Eastern Asian architecture, the hip-and-gable roof comprise a hip roof that slopes down on all four sides and integrates a gable on two opposing sides.^[1][2] It is usually constructed with two large sloping roof sections in the front and back respectively, while the two sides each are usually constructed with a smaller roof section.^[3]

It is known as xiēshān (歇山) in Chinese,^[4][5] irimoya (入母屋) in Japanese,^[2] and paljakjibung (팔작지붕) in Korean.^[6]

The style is of Chinese origin. It arrived from China in Japan in the 6th century.^[2]

In Japan, it was originally used in the main and lecture halls of a Buddhist temple compound, but started to be used also for the honden at shrines later, during the Japanese Middle Ages.^[7] Its gable is usually right above the moya, or core, while the hip covers the hisashi, a veranda-like aisle surrounding the core on one or more sides.^[2] It is still in wide use in Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines in Japan, but also in palaces, castles, and folk dwellings. In the last case, it is often called moya-zukuri (母屋造).^[2]

Gallery

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  The Longxing Temple—built in 1052, located at present-day Zhengding, Hebei Province, China—has a hip-and-gable with double eaves.^[1]

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  A hip-and-gable is seen in the Tiananmen, Beijing, China.^[2]

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  National Concert Hall in Taipei

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  Yakushi-ji's (Dai)kō-dō

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  An hip-and-gable roof at Shimogamo Shrine

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  A shikoro-yane

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  Shitennō-ji main gate and its shikoro-yane

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  The Tamamushi Shrine has a shikoro-yane

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See also

• Gablet roof

References

1. Guo, Qinghua (2010). The mingqi pottery buildings of Han Dynasty China, 206 BC-AD 220 : architectural representations and represented architecture. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press. p. 138. ISBN 9781845193218.
2. "Irimoya-zukuri". JAANUS: Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System. Retrieved 2009-05-31.
3. Deqi, Shan. Chinese vernacular dwellings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 11–12. ISBN 9780521186674.
4. Chen, Congzhou; Pan, Hongxuan; Lu, Bingjie (2008). Chinese houses : a pictorial tour of China's traditional dwellings. Pleasantville: Reader's Digest Association. p. 331. ISBN 9781606520017.
5. Chung, Anita (2004). Drawing boundaries : architectural images in Qing China. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai'i Press. pp. 23–24. ISBN 9780824826635.
6. "Naver Dictionary". Retrieved 2013-03-10.
7. Iwanami Nihonshi Jiten (岩波日本史辞典), CD-Rom Version. Iwanami Shoten, 1999-2001.