Japanese is just so logical. The main column of the house in old Minka is called Daikokubashira literally big (大) black (黒) pillar (柱).
2 A structrual post *hashira 柱, in vernacular houses, *minka 民家, which was considered to be an embodiment of *Daikoku 大黒, one of the seven gods of good fortune *shichifukujin 七福神. Daikoku had come to be associated with the kitchen and hearth and was regarded as a tutelary deity of the house. The post was located in a variety of places in the house: a) most commonly at the interface between the earth floored area *doma 土間, and the living rooms kyoshitsubu 居室部, approximately at the center of the building's cross-section. This location marked the boundary between the public front half of the house,hare 晴, and the private domestically-orientated zone toward the rear, ke 褻; b) on the upper side *kamite 上手 of the large room(s), *hiroma 広間 adjacent to the earth-floored area. In the case of houses with a 4 room cross plan ta-no-jigata 田の字型, the daikokubashira marked the center of the plan where the arms of the cross interesected.
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A not so good example as there are 2! My picture from the Edo Open Air Architecture Museum in Tokyo.
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An example from JAANUS
Our Daikokubashira is being picked up on Tuesday. I visited Scottish Wood a few weeks ago to discuss cladding for my house but also to see a fallen oak log that might work for the house.
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