Lit. end of the veranda water basin. A type of tall, cylindrical wash basin *chōzubachi 手水鉢 used in *shoin 書院 style gardens and thus also called shoinshiki chōzubachi 書院式手水鉢. The endaki chōzubachi together with its attendant stones is called *hachimae-no-ishigumi 鉢前の石組. Its tall size, usually just over one meter, allows it to be used from the veranda rather than from the garden. Often it is placed along the veranda between the shoin room and the toilet, from which it is shielded by a screen fence *sodegaki 袖垣.
When used in large, palatial shoin the ensaki chōzubachi is located a meter away from the veranda, about two meters high, and holds no water. In these cases it is called *kazarihachimae 飾鉢前 or decorative hachimae, and a wooden lid or roof may be employed to keep out rain water and other materials.
Ensaki chōzubachi seem to have developed into the hachimae in the 17th century, and both hachimae and kazarihachimae forms were fixed in the 18th-century Akizato Ritō's 秋里籬島 Tsukiyama teizōden kōhen 築山庭造伝後編 (see *Tsukiyama teizōden 築山庭造伝) distinguishes many types of ensaki chōzubachi.
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