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Architecture
Tea Houses
Also called ganaidoko, gangōdoko 龕合床. An alcove with the floor board the same height as the matted room, a frontal wall with a central opening, and a plastered interior. Approximately 180 cm across the front, the opening is around 90 cm wide. This alcove suited the taste of Kakukasai Sōsa 覚々斎宗左 (Gensō Sōsa 原叟宗左, 1678-1730). The *Chasō sentei 茶道筌蹄 (1816; published in 1847) describes it as an entirely plastered alcove.