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Structure of a Shirakawago style featuring a steep rafter roof A style featuring a steep rafter roof of Shirakawago is designed bear the dignity of this snow. It is on a joining-the-palms-together beam about the joining-the-palms-together beam not only with making snow easy to let slide but the thick roof itself which inclines suddenly. It is the structure which is struck and inserted and joining-the-palms-together beams are united from both sides. The weight concerning a roof is distributed and the tip of a joining-the-palms-together beam It has become like the bottom of a top, and since it is not fixing, it swings freely, as [ distribute / when it changes into the state where the load was applied only to the part / that swings and / load ] Having a peculiar flexible structure with one is a secret which can also bear the dignity of a heavy snowfall, Moreover, it could also be called the wisdom invented by people of this ground from ancient times. |