In Japanese architecture mokoshi (裳階・裳層, also pronounced shōkai), literally "skirt storey" or "cuff storey", is a decorative pent roof surrounding a building...

wide mokoshi, for a total of 9x7 bays. The second story has the same dimensions as the temple's core at the first story, (3x2 bays), but has no mokoshi. Some...

subject, see also the articles Hisashi, Mokoshi and Moya. For reasons of space, however, the wall separating the mokoshi from the core of the pagoda is present...

doors, cusped windows called Katōmado, and decorative pent roofs called Mokoshi. Although containing many of the elements of Zenshūyō style architecture...

slope at the eaves. Compare with bell roof. East Asian hip-and-gable roof Mokoshi: A Japanese decorative pent roof Pavilion roof : A low-pitched roof hipped...

Internally, it is a single open space. This effect results from the lower roof mokoshi. This is called Zenshūyō. This style can be seen at Shariden of Enkaku-ji...

novel/anime series Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions Yuta, alternative name for a mokoshi, Japanese architectural feature This page or section lists people that...

chapter of the Lotus Sutra. With square lower and cylindrical upper parts, a mokoshi 'skirt roof', a pyramidal roof, and a finial, the tahōtō or the larger...

roof which does not correspond to an internal vertical division is called mokoshi (裳階・裳層, also pronounced shōkai), literally "skirt story" or "cuff story"...

roof which does not correspond to an internal vertical division is called mokoshi (裳階・裳層, also pronounced shōkai), literally "skirt story" or "cuff story"...