In housing, it is also seen in shinden-zukuri style (typical architecture of a nobleman's residence during the Heian period) as depicted in the Genji monogatari emaki (the Illustrated Hand Scroll of the Tale of Genji) and shoin-zukuri always have nageshi.
住宅建築は、『源氏物語絵巻』などに見られる寝殿造にも見られ、書院造では必ず長押を打つ。