The best way to understand the shinbashira's role is to watch a video made by Shuzo Ishida, a structural engineer at Kyoto Institute of Technology.
了解塔心柱的作用最好的方法是观看一段由京都理工学院结构工程师石田修三制作的视频。
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Mr Ishida, known to his students as "Professor Pagoda" because of his passion to understand the pagoda, has built a series of models and tested them on a "shake-table" in his laboratory.