Abstract
We have scarcely any information about the temporary shrine of Nukisaki-jinja for eight centuries after that built in 1025 A.D. (see Part 1). Only we have a record about building of the temporary shrine built in 1800 A.D.. According to the record, the temporary shrine was built of logs, bamboo and straw rope, and both the roof and the wall were thatched. The posts were erected upon the dug pits and higher three posts supported the ridge in the similar way as in the temporary shrine of 1025 A.D.. There was the upper floor and it installed the seats of the gods alike to the existing main shrine. But the ground floor was not so important as in the existing main shrine, judging from the conditions of its floor and the stairs. These features suggest that the building of the temporary shrine had originally adopted a form of the primitive Japanese dwelling, which would have a single high floor and have an entrance and a ladder on a gable-side. The temporary shrine afterwards, built every twelve years, have followed the preceding form, in spite of some reduction and modernization. Still in the latest temporary shrine, built in 1968, all posts were erected upon the dug pits and the center post (Shin-no-mihashira) supported the ridge actually. These astonishing adherent characters largely contribute to the history of Japanese ancient architecture.
