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| KEY WORD : architecture / decorations | |||||||||
|  Lit. 
fins. A decorative sculpted form found, for example, on the left and right of 
a gable pendant *gegyo 懸魚, 
along a bargeboard, and on both sides of a goblin mask tile *onigawara 
鬼瓦 or a bottle-shaped post *taiheizuka 
大瓶束. Hire flanking a taiheizuka are known as *taiheibire 
大瓶鰭, *gasshouhire 合掌鰭.  | 
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