shitomido
Shitomido incorporate lattice panels on the front and back, or only on the front. Often divided into a top and bottom panel where the bottom panel is fixed between pillars and the top panel suspended from the overhead lintel. To open, the top panel is raised into a horizontal position and suspended by L-shaped metal hinges.
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Terunobu Fujimori│006: The Shitomi of the Kondo Hall at Ninnaji Temple
… [flip-up lattice shutter]. It is also known as a shitomido [flip-up lattice shutter door]. Let me begin by introducing a real-world example of one. While there are still many old temples with long-st…
12 Sep 2023
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Fujiya/Window of the Souvenir Shop
This is a machiya (townhouse) that was built around 1830 in Narai, Nagano. The upper part of the opening facing the street is fitted with shitomido (top-hinged swinging shutters), while the lower part…
08 May 2018
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The scene of brilliant street
…he public square, there is a market raising a big shitomido, so called latticed shutters, for Christmas, where a family or a couple are talking happily while looking through inside. One of the charact…
13 Jun 2016
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Window Embracing the Hometown
…aint made of red iron oxide) and transformed into shitomido (lattice shutter) against rain and wind. We devised an idea to use available materials in the house for renovation in order to recreate a sp…
08 Nov 2017