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Shinto shrine A is a structure whose main purpose is to house ("enshrine") one or more ''kami'', the deities of the Shinto religion. Overview Structurally, a Shinto shrine typically comprises several buildings. The ''honden''Also called (本殿, meanin ...

architectural style presently found in only three instances, all at

Hiyoshi Taisha is a Shinto shrine located in the city of Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture Japan. This shrine is one of the Twenty-Two Shrines. Known before World War II as or Hie jinja, "Hiyoshi" is now the preferred spelling. It was also known as the . The head ...

in Ōtsu, Shiga, hence the name. They are the East and West and the . It is characterized by a

hip-and-gable roof A Dutch gable roof or gablet roof (in Britain) is a roof with a small gable at the top of a hip roof. The term Dutch gable is also used to mean a gable with parapets. Some sources refer to this as a gable-on-hip roof. A Dutch gable roof combine ...

with verandas called '' hisashi'' on the sides. It has a ''

hirairi is a Japanese traditional architectural structure, where the building has its main entrance on the side which runs parallel to the roof's ridge (non gabled-side). The ''shinmei-zukuri'', ''nagare-zukuri'', ''hachiman-zukuri'', and '' hie-zukuri' ...

'' structure, that is, the building has its main entrance on the side which runs parallel to the roof's ridge (non gabled-side). The building is composed of a 3x2 ''

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''The ''ken'' is the distance between one supporting pillar and another, a quantity which can vary from shrine to shrine and even within the same building. core called '' moya'' surrounded on three sides by a 1-''ken'' wide ''hisashi'', totaling 5x3 ''ken'' (see photo).JAANUS
Hie-zukuri
/ref> The three-sided ''hisashi'' is unique and typical of this style. The gabled roof extends in small porticos on the front and the two gabled sides.Iwanami

Kōjien is a single-volume Japanese dictionary first published by Iwanami Shoten in 1955. It is widely regarded as the most authoritative dictionary of Japanese, and newspaper editorials frequently cite its definitions. As of 2007, it had sold 11 mil ...

Japanese dictionary, 6th Edition (2008), DVD versionHistory and Typology of Shrine Architecture
Encyclopedia of Shinto accessed on November 2009 The roof on the back has a characteristic shape (see photo below). Hiyoshi-taisha nishihongu2

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