Keywords
Architecture
Tea Houses
Lit. boar's eye window. A window in a tea ceremony structure thought to resemble a boar's eye.
The window is really more of a heart-shaped opening in the wall at the side of the alcove *tokonoma 床の間, in a tea ceremony house or in a short wall dropped from the ceiling about a third of the way down across the front of the tokonoma. It allowed some light to enter the tokonoma, for example in the Yodomi no seki 淀看の席 at Saiōin 西翁院, Kyoto.