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Bamboo fences - Part 1（竹垣）
In Japanese gardens as well as in Western gardens, fences can have many different functions – from being mainly practical, subdividing the garden or separating it from the outside to being a more decorative element.
Bamboo is a very light and easy to work material. It is strong, yet flexible, which allows for a great variety of practical uses and designs. As a building material for the outside, where it is exposed to sun and rain, it is relatively short-lived. Especially when the bamboo is in direct contact with water or soil, it weathers rapidly. Still, even though a fence may last only around 5 years, it ages gracefully.
Part 1 deals with the most important tall bamboo fences.
Contents:
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Bamboo is a very light and easy to work material. It is strong, yet flexible, which allows for a great variety of practical uses and designs. As a building material for the outside, where it is exposed to sun and rain, it is relatively short-lived. Especially when the bamboo is in direct contact with water or soil, it weathers rapidly. Still, even though a fence may last only around 5 years, it ages gracefully.
Part 1 deals with the most important tall bamboo fences.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Overview
- Chasen-gaki 茶筅垣
- Daitokuji-gaki 大徳寺垣
- Shiba-gaki (Uguisu-gaki) 柴垣, 鶯垣
- Koshiba-gaki 小柴垣
- Kuromoji-gaki 黒文字垣
- Takehō-gaki 竹穂垣
- Katsura-gaki 桂垣
- Ginkakuji-gaki 銀閣寺垣
- Kenninji-gaki 建仁寺垣
- Misu-gaki 御簾垣
- Nanzenji-gaki 南禅寺垣
- Numazu-gaki/Ajiro-gaki 沼津垣, 網代垣
- Teppō-gaki 鉄砲垣
- Tokusa-gaki 木賊垣
- Sode-gaki 袖垣
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