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.