{"id":867,"date":"2008-07-12T23:25:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T14:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-07-12\/867"},"modified":"2008-07-12T23:25:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T14:25:47","slug":"the-beauty-of-a-weathered-shrine-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-07-12\/867","title":{"rendered":"The Beauty of a Weathered Shrine Roof"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f\/3.5-5.6 VR @ 135 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>250 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 320 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nRoof In Need of a Trim<\/span><\/span>\nAt the Itsukushima Shrine (\u53b3\u5cf6\u795e\u793e\u3001\u5bae\u5cf6), Miyajima Japan\n<\/div>\n\n

I've mentioned recently how much I love<\/span> the natural roofs of many\ntemples and shrines, having noted it in recent posts about the Fushimi Inari\nShrine<\/a> and about the\nKiyomizu Temple<\/a>. The roof above<\/span>, like the roofs cited in those posts,\nare made of many layers of thin sheets of what I assume<\/span> is wood. Such a\nroof,<\/span> over time, slowly breaks down and returns to nature.<\/p>\n\n

Here's a relatively new one, as evidenced by the sharp shadows showing\nthat the individual sheets of wood are still easily distinguishable as,\nwell, individual sheets of wood....<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f\/3.5-5.6 VR @ 170 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>500 sec, f<\/span>\/7.1, ISO 250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nNew Construction<\/span>\n( relatively speaking )\n<\/div>\n\n

It's not so new that they're not all warped and curled – viewing\nthe larger\nversion<\/a> shows that they're in pretty bad shape – but compare them\nwith older roofs that time and the elements have made smooth and curvy...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f\/3.5-5.6 VR @ 65 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>320 sec, f<\/span>\/5, ISO 320 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

These pictures are from our trip to the Itsukushima\nShrine<\/a> on Miyajima Island (near Hiroshima) last year to see Kousuke\nAtari in Concert<\/a>. The shrine<\/span> is most well known for its main gate\nlocated in an intertidal zone<\/a>, but it's quite pretty in its own\nright. The “nearby photos” link under any of the photos yields other photos I've posted from that trip.<\/p>\n\n

The most common type of temple\/shrine roof construction seems to be tile\n(such as\nthis<\/a>,\nthis<\/a>, and\nthis<\/a>), followed by the “layered thin sheet” style highlighted in today's post.\nThatched-reed roofs\nseem to be less common, but not rare, such as\nhere<\/a>,\nhere<\/a>, and\nhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

Continued here...<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I've mentioned recently how much I love the natural roofs of many temples and shrines, having noted it in recent posts about the Fushimi Inari Shrine and about the Kiyomizu Temple. The roof above, like the roofs cited in those posts, are made of many layers of thin sheets of what I assume is wood. Such a roof, over time, slowly breaks down and returns to nature.<\/p>

Here's a relatively new one, as evidenced by the sharp shadows showing that the individual sheets of wood are still easily distinguishable as, well, individual sheets of wood....<\/p>

It's not so new that [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}