kakushiaridome　隠蟻留

KEY WORD :　architecture / joints

Lit. a hidden mitered dovetail joint, or blind mitered dovetail joint. Also called kakushiarigata kumitsugi 隠蟻形組接; kakushiarihozo 隠蟻ほぞ, corner miter, sumitome 隅留, sumitomeari 隅留蟻, or hinadome 雛留. An angle joint *shiguchi 仕口 used at the corners of a building to attach non-penetrating tie beams *nageshi 長押 to a pillar *hashira 柱. Two to four dovetail tenons and mortises *arihozo 蟻ほぞ and arihozoana 蟻ほぞ穴, cut on the cross grain, are joined in such a way as to be hidden.

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