Used only at Shinto shrines (although not mandatory) the chigi X-shaped roof terminations are always used in pairs, on both sides of the roof. Either simple, wooden-made, like the ones photographed here at the Izumo Taisha Grand Shrine, or complex decorated in metal, the chigi are always indicating that the building is a sacred place.
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