Various Support Units
1958 - 1963

Waku no Iroiro
[Various Support Units]
21.3 x 30.3 cm Ink Painting

Figure at the Top Left
Sashikomi/Sashikomi-waku: Sprag or Stretcher [half set of a frame with one end of its beam inserted into the wall on one side of a slope]
Kabe: wall

Figure at the Bottom Left
Hon-waku: Normal Frame

Figures at the Top Right
Gassho-waku: Arched Frame or Herringbone-system Frame Support units of this kind were decorative and also called kesho-wakus.

Figure in the Middle Right
Kagume-waku: Main Support Unit Supporting Some Half Sets

Figure at the Bottom Right
Myoto-waku: Coupled Frame or a "Husband and Wife" Frame

Text at the Bottom Right
Lagging (narugi) which was densely laid almost without gaps was called jigoku-nari. When the roof of a roadway became higher than before and difficult to support after a roof fall, repairers sometimes laid lagging like this and put rocks on top.


Translation Assisted by Mr. Nathan Johndro

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