Keywords
Architecture
Tea Houses
1 Lit. "shoulder." The shoulder of a tea ceremony tea caddy or tea jar *chaire 茶入 into which tea is poured. The shapes of the shoulders vary and can be sloped, rounded, rolled, or ridged.
2 The upper part of a frog-leg strut *kaerumata 蟇股 that forms the shoulder-like curves on either side of a bearing block *masu 斗.