k’an

Isaac Kremer/ September 9, 2018/ / 0 comments

In ancient Chinese architecture, a niche for the storage of manuscripts; later such niches were used as shrines for the tablets of ancestors or for statues; the more elaborate niches include pedestals and columns; the less elaborate niches (in small houses) were used to display works of art or to house incense burners. (Harris, 1977)