Hi Chris,
I'm building a Japanese garden gate in the Yamaga style for Great Vow Zen Monastery in Clatskanie, Oregon... just finishing up the joinery and should have it erected May 21. I may be starting a Kirizuma style shelter for a statue at the monastery entrance later this summer... and have a lot of questions on structure as the shelter will have 4 posts - unlike the gate with only 2. The gate is my first venture into posts, purlins, and joinery... SCARY!! but so intersting to learn. With the shelter, I really need help on the structure - traditional, not western interpretations, and pictures or photo's would help a lot.