kamadono 釜殿

Also pronounced kanaedono, kamaden. A synonym for *kamaya 釜屋. A simple structure housing cauldrons kama 釜 and a cooking range *kamado 竈. The kamadono or kamaden was found in shrines; a famous example being the kamaden at Kibitsu Jinja 吉備津神社, and was used as an area to prepare offerings of food shinsen 神饌 or rice wine sake 酒 for the deities enshrined. The term is also used in the medieval satodairi 里内裏, and applied to the kama area in the residences of the aristocracy from the late Heian period onward and in the Kamakura imperial palace, gosho 御所, where the Kamakura period Shoguns resided. Here too it was used for food preparation, particularly the boiling of rice. Often prefixed with the honorific o 御; okamadono 御釜殿.