The religious importance is evident, for instance, in the hardware parts of tsuma, or gabled pediment, which are specially treated, and mounting them during periodical occasions when moving shintai to a new shrine was carried out as a secret ceremony at the Shoden of Ise Jingu, and in nagare-zukuri pavillions jointed side by side in rows, each pavillion has chidori-hafu, a dormer bargeboard at the front side to differentiate the pavillions from each other.
例えば、伊勢神宮正殿において妻の部分の金具が特別視され、式年遷宮の際にそれを装着する儀礼が秘伝とされていたことや、流造の社殿を横にいくつも連結した社殿において、ひとつの社殿ごとに正面に千鳥破風（妻）が設けられて、ひとつひとつの社殿が分かるようにしていることからも分かる。