genkaibashi　厳海橋

KEY WORD :　architecture / gardens

Lit. Genkai bridge. A type of bridge used to span deep garden streams or ravines. It is constructed with a triangular timber framework which may be filled in with small logs. Because this type of bridge was supposedly built at the Genkai Straits, it was called genkaibashi by Akizato Ritou 秋里籬島 in his ISHIGUMI SONO YAEGAKIDEN 石組園生八重垣伝 (1827). A genkaibashi is sometimes called kisobashi 木曽橋 or untaikyou 雲帯橋. When covered with earth, it is called genkai dobashi 厳海土橋.

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